Wednesday, October 22, 2008

MASTER OF RECORDS


The god of cricket world as made enormous records which cannot be erased from the cricket history as long as the game exists.In November 2006, Time magazine named him as one of the Asian Heroes.In December 2006, he was named "Sports person of the Year. The Times of India has nominated him as the Face of New India next to the likes of Amartya Sen and Mahatma Gandhi among others.Tendulkar has been granted the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award and Padma Shri by Indian government. He is the only Indian cricketer to get all of them.In2003Wisden rated Tendulkar as No. 1 in all time Greatest ODI player.In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman after Sir Donald Bradman.
some of the partnership records of the maestro are:
1.The 20 century partnerships for opening pair with Sourav Ganguly is a world record
2.Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid hold the world record for the highest partnership in ODI matches(331 runs against newzeland
3. SachinTendulkar has been involved in 6 200 run partnerships in ODI matches -
4. he was involved in unbroken 664-run partnership in a Harris Shield game in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli,
1st Wicket 258 runs with SauravGanguly against Kenya in 2001
2nd Wicket 331 with RahulDravid against NewZealand in 1999
3rd Wicket 237 runs with RahulDravid against Kenya in 1999
He as appeared for the nation in 90 different grounds.Amazing record of 185 consecutive appearances without any interruption.On his debut, SachinTendulkar was the second youngest debutant in the world.He holds the record of maximum no of centuries for both ODI & TEST matches.Most number of hundreds in the ODI 41Most number of nineties in the ODI.Most number of man of the matches(56) in the ODI's.Most number of man of the series(14) in ODI's
maximum runs in 1996(523) world cup& in 2003(673).He is the only player to get centuries against all test playing nations....... His records are endless and still continuing. He is a man of great desire & performances.If you search meaning of records in the dictionary of cricket it will show you "SACHIN".