In a shocking revelation that has shook the cricketing fraternity, the ‘Little Master’ has decided to call it quits in the Test format of the game. Following his dropping for the second Test against South Africa with fielding maestro Mohammad Kaif taking his place– Sachin Tendulkar announced his retirement early this morning.
The BCCI had initially mentioned a groin-injury, which had supposedly left Tendulkar on the sidelines; yet after today’s announcement, one wonders if this was their veiled attempt to push India’s greatest batsman into what seems to be a very early retirement… “After years of giving India my 100%, I have decided that I can no longer compete in the Test format of the game. The formula of a youth dominated ODI – T20 squad has reaped many rewards, I’m inclined to believe that this should translate into our Test squad,” Tendulkar said as he opened his Test-retirement announcement.
Sachin Tendulkar, quite possibly cricket’s most supreme batsman, didn’t seem to be in the best of moods during the conference – and once his short and curt speech ended, he vehemently refused to take any questions from the few journalists who were present. He quickly put on his shades and surrounded by personnel dashed to his Mercedes in which his wife Dr. Anjali was waiting.
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Just have a look at the records held by Sachin Tendulkar.
No wonder why British Prime Minister is suggesting him for the honor of Sir ??
Records Held by Sachin Tendulkar
Highest Run scorer in the ODI
Most number of hundreds in the ODI 41
Most 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
Best average for man of the matches in ODI's
First Cricketer to pass 10000 run in the ODI
First Cricketer to pass 15000 run in the ODI
He is the highest run scorer in the world cup
(1,796 at an average of 59.87 as on 20 March 2007)
Most number of the man of the matches in the world cup
Most number of runs 1996 world cup 523 runs in the
1996 Cricket World Cup at an average of 87.16
Most number of runs in the 2003 world cup 673 runs in 2003 Cricket World Cup, highest by any player in a single Cricket World Cup
He was Player of the World Cup Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
Most number of Fifties in ODI's 87
Appeared in Most Number of ODI's 407
He is the only player to be in top 10 ICC ranking for 10 years.
Most number of 100's in test's 38
He is one of the three batsmen to surpass 11,000
runs in Test cricket, and the first Indian to do so
He is thus far the only cricketer to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest sporting honor In 2003, Wisden rated Tendulkar as d No. 1 and Richards at No. 2 in all time Greatest ODI player In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman after Sir Donald Bradman.
He was involved in unbroken 664-run partnership in a Harris Shield game in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli.
Tendulkar is the only player to score a century in all three of his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts In 1992, at the age of 19.
Tendulkar became the first overseas born player to represent Yorkshire
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.
Tendulkar has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year in ODI's 7 times
Tendulkar has scored 1894 runs in calendar year in ODI's most by any batsman
He is the highest earning cricketer in the world
He has the least percentage of the man of the matches awards won when team looses a match. Out of his 56 man of the match awards only 5 times India has lost.
Tendulkar most number man of match awards(10) against Australia In August of 2003.
Sachin Tendulkar was voted as the "Greatest Sportsman" of the country in the sport personalities category in the Best of India poll conducted by Zee News.
In November 2006, Time magazine named Tendulkar as one of the Asian Heroes.
In December 2006, he was named "Sports person of the Year"
The current India Poised campaign run by 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 was the first batsman in history to score over 50 centuries in international cricket
Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 75 centuries in international cricket:79 centuries
Has the most overall runs in cricket, (ODIs+Tests+Twenty20s), as of 30 June 2007 he had accumulated almost 26,000 runs overall. Is second on the most number of runs in test cricket just after Brian Lara.
Sachin Tendulkar with Sourav Ganguly hold the world record for the maximum number of runs scored by the opening partnership. They have put together 6,271 runs in 128 matches
The 20 century partnerships for opening pair with Sourav Ganguly is a world record
Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid hold the world record for the highest partnership in ODI matches when they scored 331 runs against New Zealand in 1999
Sachin Tendulkar has been involved in six 200 run partnerships in ODI matches - a record that he shares with Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid
Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998
Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs (41 Centuries and 87 Fifties)(as of 18th Nov, 2007)
The only player ever to cross the 13,000-14,000 and 15,000 run marks IN ODI.
Highest individual score among Indian batsmen (186* against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999). The score of 186* is listed the fifth highest score recorded in ODI matches
Tendulkar has scored over 1000 ODI runs against all major Cricketing nations.
Sachin was the fastest to reach 10,000 runs taking 259 innings and has the highest batting average among batsmen with over 10,000 ODI runs
Most number of Stadium Appearances: 90 different
Grounds Consecutive ODI Appearances: 185
On his debut, Sachin Tendulkar was the second youngest debutant in the world
When Tendulkar scored his maiden century in 1990, he was the second youngest to score a century
Tendulkar's record of five test centuries before he turned 20 is a current world record
Tendulkar holds the current record (217 against NZ in 1999/00 Season) for the highest score in Test cricket by an Indian when captaining the side
Tendulkar has scored centuries against all test playing nations.[7]
He was the third batman to achieve the distinction after Steve Waugh and Gary Kirsten
Tendulkar has 4 seasons in test cricket with 1000 or more runs - 2002 (1392 runs), 1999 (1088 runs), 2001 (1003 runs) and 1997 (1000 runs).
Gavaskar is the only other Indian with four seasons of 1000+ runs He is second most number of seasons with over 1000 runs in world.
On 3 January 2007 Sachin Tendulkar (5751) edged past Brian Lara's (5736) world record of runs scored in Tests away from home
Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket history. Both of them achieved this in 195 innings
Second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to make over 10,000 runs in Test matches
Became the first Indian to surpass the 11,000 Test run mark and the third International player behind Allan Border and Brian Lara.
Tendulkar is fourth on the list of players with most Test caps. Steve Waugh (168 Tests), Allan Border (158 Tests), Shane Warne (145 Tests) have appeared in more games than Tendulkar
Tendulkar has played the most number of Test Matches(144) for India (Kapil Dev is second with 131 Test appearances).
First to 25,000 international runs
Tendulkar's 25,016 runs in international cricket include 14,537 runs in ODI's, 10,469 Tests runs and 10 runs in the lone Twenty20 that India has played.
On December 10, 2005, Tendulkar made his 35th century in Tests at Delhi against Sri Lanka.
He surpassed Sunil Gavaskar's record of 34 centuries to become the man with the most number of hundreds in Test cricket.
Tendulkar is the only player who has 150 wkts and more than 15000 runs in ODI
Tendulkar is the only player who has 40 wkts and more than 11000 runs in Tests
Only batsman to have 100 hundreds in the first class cricket On 26 th January 2008.
He was awarded " PADMA VIBHUSHAN " by the president of India and definitely he deserves to be given " BHARAT RATNA " award in due course.
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