Sachin Tendulkar Biography Born on April 24, 1973, Sachin Tendulkar (/ˌsʌtʃɪn tɛnˈduːlkər/ ⓘ; pronounced [sətɕin teːɳɖulkəɾ]) is a former cricket player for India who captained the country’s national squad. He is considered by many to be among the best batsmen in cricket history. With almost 18,000 and 15,000 runs in ODI and Test cricket, respectively, he is the all-time top run scorer in both formats and is hailed as the most prolific batsman in history. In international cricket, he also has the record for most player of the match accolades won.[6] From 2012 until 2018, Tendulkar served as a Rajya Sabha member by nomination.
Sachin Tendulkar Biography
Born on April 24, 1973 in Bombay, Maharashtra, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is a former cricket player from India. One of the top batsmen in the world, in his opinion, is him. He bowls both leg breaks and off-breaks as a part-time player. Although he could bat in the middle order, Sachin was mostly a right-handed opener. In terms of both Test and ODI cricket, he is the record holder for the highest run total. His double century in the white ball game made him the first batter to achieve that feat. Even at 5 feet 5 inches, he had the same amount of height as a towering Mohinder Amarnath when it came to hooking the ball.
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Sachin Tendulkar Biography Summary
Full Name
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Date of Birth
April 24, 1973
Age
49 Years
Nationality
Indian
Birth Place
Mumbai
Height
5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Role
Batsman/Right-handed, Right-arm medium, leg break, off break Bowler
According to recent reports, the richest Indian cricketer in 2025 is Sachin Tendulkar, with a net worth of $165 million, followed by Virat Kohli with a net worth of $122 million, and MS Dhoni with a net worth of $127 million.
SachinTendulkarNetWorth2023
1400Cr
SachinTendulkarNetWorth2022
1320Cr
SachinTendulkarNetWorth2021
1200Cr
SachinTendulkarNetWorth2020
1105Cr
SachinTendulkarNetWorth2019
1030Cr
SachinTendulkarNetWorth2018
920Cr
SachinTendulkarNetWorth2017
813Cr
SachinTendulkarNetWorth2016
756Cr
SachinTendulkarNetWorth2015
673Cr
SachinTendulkarNetWorth2014
590Cr
Early life And background
Tendulkar was born on April 24, 1973, to a Maharastrian family at the Nirmal Nursing Home in Dadar, Bombay. His mother, Rajni, was employed in the insurance sector, while his father, Ramesh Tendulkar, was a poet and novelist in Marathi. Tendulkar was named after Sachin Dev Burman, the music director that Tendulkar’s father admired. Tendulkar has three older siblings: Savita, his half-sister, and Nitin and Ajit, his half-brother. These were the children of his father’s first wife, who passed away following the delivery of her third child. Ajit, his brother, participated in the Kanga Cricket League in Bombay.
Tendulkar grew up in Bandra (East) at the Sahitya Sahawas Cooperative Housing Society. Tendulkar was regarded as a bully when he was younger and would frequently start fights with new students at his school.
Early career
Tendulkar was chosen, at the age of 14, to play for Bombay in the 1987–88 Ranji Trophy. Despite this, he was frequently deployed as a substitute fielder and did not make it into the starting eleven in any of the matches. Tendulkar made his debut for Bombay against Gujarat at Wankhede Stadium on December 11, 1988, one year later, at the age of fifteen years and thirty-two days. He hit a century without conceding an out in the game, becoming the youngest Indian player to do so in first-class cricket history. Bombay captain Dilip Vengsarkar chose him to play for the squad after seeing him play Kapil Dev on the cricket practice nets at Wankhede Stadium, when the Indian team was there to play the visiting.
Career
Tendulkar was picked for the Indian tour of Pakistan in late 1989 following just one season of first class cricket, with Raj Singh Dungarpur taking the credit. While the Indian selection committee had expressed interest in picking Tendulkar for the West Indies tour earlier that year, they ultimately decided against it because they did not want him to be exposed to the region’s elite fast bowlers at such an early stage of his career.
At the age of sixteen years and 205 days, Tendulkar made his Test debut for India, the youngest player to do so. At sixteen years and two38 days, he made his ODI debut, his youngest ever. In an over against Pakistan, Tendulkar made his Test debut.
Most Recent Matches
Match
R
BF
4s
6s
S/R
O
R
W
E/R
IND-L vs SL-L
0
1
0
0
0.00
0
0
0
0
AUS-L vs IND-L
10
11
2
0
90.91
0
0
0
0
BAN-L vs IND-L
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
IND-L vs ENG-L
40
20
3
3
200.00
0
0
0
0
IND-L vs NZL
19
13
4
0
146.15
0
0
0
0
Batting Stats
Game Type
Mat
Inn
R
BF
NO
Avg
S/R
100s
50s
H
4s
6s
Ct
ODIs
463
452
18426
21368
41
44.83
86.23
49
96
200
2016
195
140
TESTs
200
329
15921
0
33
53.78
0
51
68
248
0
69
115
T20Is
1
1
10
12
0
10.00
83.33
0
0
10
2
0
1
T20s
96
96
2797
2310
11
32.90
121.08
1
16
100
359
38
28
LISTAs
551
538
21999
0
55
45.54
0
60
114
200
0
0
175
FIRSTCLASS
310
490
25396
0
51
57.84
0
81
116
248
0
0
18
Bowling Stats
Game Type
Mat
Inn
O
R
W
Avg
E/R
Best
5w
10w
ODIs
463
270
1342.2
6850
154
44.48
5.10
5/32
2
0
TESTs
200
145
706.4
2492
46
54.17
3.52
3/14
0
0
T20Is
1
1
2.3
12
1
12.00
4.80
1/12
0
0
T20s
96
8
15.3
123
2
61.50
7.93
1/12
0
0
LISTAs
551
0
1705
8478
201
42.17
4.97
5/32
2
0
FIRSTCLASS
310
0
1267.3
4384
71
61.74
3.45
0
0
0
Bio/Wiki
Full Name
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Nickname
Tendya
Names Earned
Master Blaster, God of Cricket, Little Master
Profession
Cricketer (former)
Height, Hair Colour
Height (approx.)
in centimeters– 165 cm
in meters- 1.65 m
in feet inches- 5’ 5”
Eye Colour
Dark Brown
Hair Colour
Black
Cricket
International Debut
ODI- 18 December 1989 against Pakistan at Gujranwala
Test- 15 November 1989 against Pakistan at Karachi
T20 – 1 December 2006 against South Africa in Johannesburg
International Retirement
• He announced his retirement from One Day Internationals on 23 December 2012.
• On 10 October 2013, Tendulkar announced that he would retire from all formats of cricket after the two-Test series against West Indies in November.
Last Match
ODI- 18 March 2012 against Pakistan at Dhaka
Test- November 14-16, 2013 against West Indies at Mumbai
T20 – 1 December 2006 against South Africa at Johannesburg (it was his only T20I)
Batting style
Right-handed
Jersey Number
• #10 (India)
• #10 (IPL, Mumbai Indians)
• In few matches, he also wore jersey numbers 33 and 99.
Note: In November 2017, the BCCI retired his jersey number 10 after players refused to wear it in his honour. After Tendulkar’s retirement in 2013, only one player, Shardul Thakur, wore it for his ODI debut against Sri Lanka in Colombo in August 2016.
Domestic/State Team(s)
• Mumbai
• Mumbai Indians
• Yorkshire
Coach/Mentor
Ramakant Achrekar
Nature on field
Cool
Favourite Shot
Straight Drive
Records (main ones)
• He made 1,894 ODI runs in 1998, which is a record for most ODI runs by any batsman in a calendar year.
• Most number of Test runs – 15,921
• Most number of ODI runs – 18,426
• Most number of Tests played – 200
• Most number of ODIs played – 463
• First batsman to score a double hundred in ODIs
• Only batsman to have scored 100 international centuries
• Most number of Test centuries – 51
• Most number of ODI tons – 49
• Most ODI half centuries – 96
• Most number of runs (2,278) in World Cup history
• Most World Cup appearances (6 editions)
• Most fifties in Tests – 68
• Fastest to 10,000 runs in Tests (195 innings – along with Brian Lara (WI) and Kumar Sangakkara (SL))
• Most runs in a single edition of World Cup (673 runs in 2003)
• Most ODI hundreds in a calendar year (9 in 1998)
• Only one to accomplish rare ODI triple: 15000 runs (18426), 100 wickets (154), and 100 catches (140)
• Most times to score 1000 runs in a calendar year: 7 times
• Most Fours: 2016
• Most runs in World Cups: 2278 runs at an average of 56.95 in 45 matches
• Most centuries in World Cups: 6 in 44 innings
• Most Man of the Match titles in World Cups: 9
• Highest number of Man of the Match titles in ODIs: 62
• Most Man of the Match titles in all formats: 76
• Most Man of the Series titles in all formats: 20
• Only player to score a century on debut in all three of his domestic first-class tournaments – the Ranji, Irani, and Duleep Trophies
Awards, Honours, Achievements
National Honours
1994: Arjuna Award, by the Government of India
1997-98: Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India’s highest honour given for achievement in sports
1999: Padma Shri, India’s fourth highest civilian award
2001: Maharashtra Bhushan Award, Maharashtra State’s highest Civilian Award
2008: Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest civilian award
2014: Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award
Other Honours
1997: Wisden Cricketer of the Year
2003: Player of the Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup
2010: The Indian Air Force made him an Honorary Group Captain
2011: BCCI Cricketer of the Year award
2012: Honorary Life Membership of Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG)
2013: Indian Postal Service released a stamp of Tendulkar; making him the second Indian after Mother Teresa to have such stamp released in their lifetime
2019: Inducted into the International Cricket Council’s Hall of Fame alongside South African pace legend Allan Donald and two-time World Cup-winning Australian woman cricketer Cathryn Fitzpatrick.
2020: In February, Tendulkar’s World Cup winning moment won Laureus Sporting Moment award. After India’s World Cup triumph at home in 2011; the moment Sachin Tendulkar being lifted on the shoulders of his teammates was voted the Laureus best sporting moment in the last 20 years. Sachin is the first Indian sportsperson to win a Laureus World Sports Award; the award is dubbed as the ‘Oscars of Sport.’ After getting the award, Tendulkar tweeted, “Thank you all for the overwhelming love and support! I dedicate this @LaureusSport award to India, all my teammates, fans and well wishers in India and across the world who have always supported Indian cricket.”
2023: Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara joined the likes of Sir Donald Bradman, Alan Davidson, and Arthur Morris after the Sydney Cricket Ground honoured them by having a set of gates named in their honour; the gate was unveiled on the occasion of Sachin Tendulkar’s 50th birthday.
Note: Tendulkar has many more awards and accolades to his name.
Career Turning Point
In 1989; his first Test fifty in his 2nd Test match against a tough bowling attack of Pakistan in Faisalabad
Personal Life
Date of Birth
24 April 1973 (Tuesday)
Age (as of 2023)
50 Years
Birthplace
Nirmal Nursing Home in Dadar, Bombay (Now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India
Zodiac sign
Taurus
Signature
Nationality
Indian
Hometown
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
School
• Indian Education Society’s New English School in Bandra (East), Mumbai
• Shardashram Vidyamandir School, Dadar, Mumbai
College/University
Did Not Attend
Educational Qualification
High School
Religion
Hinduism
Caste
Rajapur Saraswat Brahmin
Address
19-A, Perry Cross Road, Bandra (West), Mumbai
Hobbies
Collecting Perfume, Watches & CD’s, Listening to Music
Relationships
Marital Status
Married
Affairs/Girlfriends
Anjali Tendulkar (Pediatrician)
Marriage Date
24 May 1995
Family
Wife/Spouse
Anjali Tendulkar (Pediatrician)
Children
Daughter- Sara Tendulkar
Son- Arjun Tendulkar (Cricketer)
Parents
Father- Late Ramesh Tendulkar (Novelist)
Mother- Rajni Tendulkar (Worked as an Insurance Agent)
Siblings
Brothers- Nitin Tendulkar (Elder, Half-Brother), Ajit Tendulkar (Elder, Half-Brother)
Sisters- Savita Tendulkar (Elder, Half-Sister)Note: Images in the Parents’ Section
