Sachin Tendulkar: Journey of struggle, success and achievements
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 24-04-2019
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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is one of the best cricketer in this world and is in India he is known as the 'God of Cricket'. He took up cricket at the age of eleven, made his Test debut on 15 November 1989 against Pakistan in Karachi at the age of sixteen, and went on to represent Mumbai domestically and India internationally for close to twenty-four years. He is the only player to have scored one hundred international centuries, the first batsman to score a double century in a One Day International, the holder of the record for the number of runs in both ODI and Test cricket, and the only player to complete more than 30,000 runs in international cricket. Here are some surprising facts about Sachin Tendulkar on his birthday.
Sachin's father, Ramesh Tendulkar, named him after the famous music director Sachin Dev Burman.
Sachin Tendulkar is India's first active cricketer to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha.
Saching initially wanted to be a professional tennis player and John McEnroe was his idol. Even his hair style in the earlier days resembled the one McEnroe had.