Sachin Tendulkar

About Sachin Tendulkar

Name - Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar

Born - 24 April 1973 (age 39)

Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra , India 

Nickname Tendlya, Little Master

Height 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) 

Batting style Right-handed 

Bowling style Right-arm leg spin, off spin, medium pace

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, born 24 April 1973) is an Indian cricketer.  Sachin Tendulkar is the most successful batsman in Indian history. In 2002, The Wisden ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time and also  the second greatest one-day-international (ODI) batsman of all time. Tendulkar was a part of the 2011 Cricket World Cup winning Indian team when india beat srilanka in worldcup final. He was also the recipient of "Player of the Tournament" award of the 2003 Cricket World Cup held in South Africa.

Tendulkar won the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC awards. He has been recommended for the receipt of the Bharat Ratna award, in fact it has been speculated that the criteria for the award of the Bharat Ratna was changed to allow him receive the award. He is also a member of Rajya Sabha of Parliament of India.Tendulkar passed 30,000 runs in international cricket on 20 November 2009. On 5 December 2012, Tendulkar became first batsman in history to cross the 34,000 run aggregate in all formats of the game put together. At 36 years and 306 days, he became the first ever player to score a double-century in the history of ODIs. Two years later he became the first player to score 100 international centuries. As of December 2012, Tendulkar has played 657 matches in international cricket.