Definition of Sachin Tendulkar??

Tests

1)Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket history. Both of them achieved this in 195 innings.

2)On 3 January 2007 Sachin Tendulkar (5751) edged past Brian Lara's (5736) world record of runs scored in Tests away from home.

3)Career Average 54.95 - the highest average among those who have scored over 10,000 Test runs.

4)Highest number of Test centuries (37).

5)Tendulkar's record of five centuries before he turned 20 is a current world record.

6)Tendulkar has scored centuries against all test playing nations.[48] He was the third batman to achieve the distinction after Steve Waugh and Gary Kirsten. The current list also includes Brian Lara, Ricky Ponting, Rahul Dravid, Jacques Kallis, Adam Gilchrist and Marvan Attapattu.

7)Sachin's 37th ton against Bangladesh during the 2007 series 2nd Test, made historyas the 1st time the top four batsman of any team had all scored centuries in asingle innings. Dinesh Karthik made 129, Wasim Jaffer 138 and Rahul Dravid 129 were the other centurions.





ODIs

1)Most Stadium Appearances: 90 different Grounds.

2)Most Runs: 15,703 Runs at just over 44 runs per innings (as of 5th November 2007),. He is the leading run scorer in the ODI format of the game and the only player ever to cross the 15,000 run mark.

3)First player to reach 10,000-11,000-12,000-13,000-14,000 and 15,000 ODI runs.

4)Holds the record for scoring 1,000 ODI runs in a calendar year. He has done it seven times - 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2007

5)Tendulkar has scored over 1000 ODI runs against all major Cricketing nations.

6)Sachin was the fastest to reach 10,000 runs taking 259 innings and has the highest batting average among batsmen with over 10,000 ODI runs

7)Most centuries: 41

8)Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs (41 Centuries and 85 Fifties)(as of 15th Oct, 2007)

9)Fifties: 85. Tendulkar holds the record for the most ODI fifties,

10)Most centuries vs. Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.

11)Most Man of the Match Awards: 55 Man of the Match Awards

12)Most Man of the Series Awards: 14 Man of the Series Awards

13)Most ODI runs in a calendar year: 1,894 ODI runs in 1998.

14)Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998

15)Sachin Tendulkar with Sourav Ganguly hold the world record for the maximum number of runs scored by the opening partnership. They have put together 6,271 runs in 128 matches that includes 20 century partnerships and 21 fifty run partnerships

16)20 century partnerships for opening pair is also a world record.

17)Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid hold the world record for the highest
partnership in ODI matches when they scored 331 runs against New Zealand in 1999 at the LBS, Hyderabad[54]

18)Sachin Tendulkar has been involved in six 200 run partnerships in ODI matches - a record that he shares with Sourav Ganguly and Ricky Ponting.

19)Most runs (1,796 at an average of 59.87 as on 20th Mar 2007) in World Cup Cricket History including 4 centuries & 13 fifties with a best score of 152* against Namibia in 2003 world cup.

20)673 runs in 2003 Cricket World Cup, highest by any player in a single Cricket World Cup

21)Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 50 centuries in
international cricket. He has now scored 78 (37 in Tests, 41 in ODIs).

22)Has the most overall runs in cricket, (ODIs+Tests+Twenty20s), as of 30th June 2007 he had accumulated almost 26,000 runs overall.