Sachin Tendulkar Biography:
Sachin Tendulkar was born April 24, 1973 in Mumbai, India. Sachin's father, Ramesh Tendulkar was a professor of Marathi. Seeing loads of promises in his younger borther, Ajit Tendulkar (Sachin's brother) decided to guide Sachin in the early stages of his life. Ajit took his kid brother to Mr. Ramakant Achrekar, arguably the best cricket coach of his times. It was because of cricket that Sachin had to change his scool and had to stay at his uncle's place.
Given his first cricket bat at the age 11, Tendulkar was just 16 when he became India's youngest Test Cricketer. In 2005, He became the first cricketer to score 35 centuries (100 runs in a single inning) in Test play. In 2007, Tendulkar reached another major milestone, becoming the first player to record 15,000 runs in one-day international play.
Ups And Downs :
Every champion has some lean patches, Sachin too had some. Sachin's tremendous performances soon elevated him to the most challenging task of captaining the Indian side. But sadly this pressure had its toll on Sachin's batting. Many criticize Sachin of not delivering the goods in crunch situations. In recent years Sachin has not been scintillating of forms and his genius has been visible only in parts. While criticizing him we must not forget that Sachin has been around the corner for the last 16 years.
What is great about him?
Sachin is considered as one of the all-times greats in the history of cricket. Tendulkar is great because years after years he is taking the pressure of being the best batsmen of the team and performing accordingly. He have been performing all versions of the game: Test, One Day and T20.
He can play every kind of shots effortlessly. He can play fast bowling and spin bowling equally well. He has been tried to improve his batting skills with time.
Family of Sachin Tendulkar:
The Name of Sachin's wife is Anjali. She is six years older than Sachin and She is a doctor. They have a son, Arjun and a daughter Sara. Sara is elder. She was born in 1997 and Arjun was in 1999.
Sachin Tendulkar's place in history is secure:
If ever an event was destined to be a crowd-puller it is second Test of the hastily arranged west Indies tour of India coming in November. This grand occasion of a Test match will be make grander still by virtue of it being, if all goes well, the 200th appearance of Sachin Tendulkar. This means he has play an average of over eight Test matches per year.
Sachin Tendulkar to say goodbye at Wankhede, retire in front of home crowd :
Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium will be hosting the farewell Test for Sachin Tendulkar after the legendary batsman expressed a wish to play his landmark 200th match against the West Indies next month infront of his home crowd.
