A portrait of a star cricketer from India.

Mumbai: E veryone likes to watch the play of “master blaster” Sachin Tendulkar as punishing batsman. He has been playing test, ODI and T-20 matches for the last 20 years, and is still there to represent India in any such game. He is a short man just above 5 feet but his reach is that of a world class batsman from India.

He also bowls and has taken a few wickets. He was compared to Donald George Bradman of Australia who liked him, but he excelled and went beyond him in cricket statistics of centuries compiled. The Indian cricketer plays right hand but writes with the left. He was born in April 1973 and entered test cricket in his teens. He is the lone cricketer who made a double century in an ODI game of cricket. He is ranked as “the greatest” by several non Indian cricketers of the world.

Tendulkar is the only cricketer of present generation to be included in Bradman’s eleven. He met Don Bradman before the Australian icon passed away.
He is reaching 50 centuries in test cricket, with 3 needed before he retires. Otherwise, he has already made 50 centuries in the 3 forms of cricket. He is the only cricketer crossing 12,000 runs in test cricket.
He is honoured with Padma Vibhushan by Govt of India, Khel Ratna a ward by Sports Ministry, and given the rank of Group Captain by IAF without aviation practical experience. Sachin is married to a Gujarat doctor, and they have 2 children, a boy and a girl. Among the centuries that he missed while in nineties, his admirers count a dozen! At 37, he is still young and has an impeccable humble character. We wish him many more achievements.