Mumbai, April 24: Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar turns 37 on Saturday, while also marking 20 years of his presence in international cricket. The cricketing genius who debuted in 1989 as a 16 year old has come a long way since then and has broken almost every cricket landmark imaginable.
The Mumbai Indian captain, who has lead his team to to the finals for the first time, is also the top scorer in the tournament. Tendulkar has been in top form in IPL 3 and hopes that his team wins the final on the April 25 and gives him the perfect birthday gift.
The iconic batsman has made 570 runs in the 14 matches.
Tendulkar became the first batsman to score a double century in an ODI match. The innings was against South Africa in Gwalior this year.
He was involved in an unbroken 664-run partnership in a Lord Harris Shield inter-school game in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli.
On his Test debut, Sachin Tendulkar was the third youngest debutant (16y 205d).
Tendulkar holds the record for the highest individual score in a one day international when he scored 200 not out breaking the previous record of 194 by Saeed Anwar.
First player to reach 10,000-11,000-12,000-13,000-14,000-15,000, 16,000 and 17,000 ODI runs.
Holds the record for scoring 1,000 ODI runs in a calendar year. He has done it seven times.
After Sachin crossed the 10,000-run mark in ODIs, only seven other players have managed to cross the milestone: (Sanath Jayasuriya, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Ricky Ponting, Brian Lara, Inzamam ul Haq, and Jacques Kallis).
Highest run scorer in the history of Test cricket with 13447 Test runs.
Became the first Indian to surpass the 11,000 Test run mark and the third International player behind Allan Border and Brian Lara.
First player to reach 12,000-13,000 Test runs in Tests.
Highest number of Test centuries(47), overtaking Sunil Gavaskar’s record (34) on 10 December 2005 vs Sri Lanka in Delhi. Ricky Ponting has 39 centuries to his credit and Brian Lara has scored 34 Test Centuries.
—–Agencies