The records of master blaster

Here are The records of our very own Master Blaster.

Such a great player to have in the team.

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1) Highest Run scorer in the ODI

2) Most number of hundreds in the ODI 42

3) Most number of nineties in the ODI

4) Most number of man of the matches(56) in the ODI's

5) Most number of man of the series(14) in ODI's

6) Best average for man of the matches in ODI's

7) First Cricketer to pass 10000 run in the ODI

8) First Cricketer to pass 15000 run in the ODI

9) He is the highest run scorer in the world cup (1,796 at an average of 59.87 as on 20 March 2007)

10) Most number of the man of the matches in the world cup


11)Most number of runs 1996 world cup 523 runs in the 1996 Cricket World Cup at an average of 87.16

12)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

13)He was Player of the World Cup Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.

14)Most number of Fifties in ODI's 89

15)Appeared in Most Number of ODI's 417

16)He is the only player to be in top 10 ICC ranking for 10 years.

17)Most number of 100's in test's 39

18)He is the only batsman to surpass 12,000 runs in Test cricket,

19)He is the first cricketer to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest sporting honor

20)In 2003, Wisden rated Tendulkar as d No. 1 and Richards at No. 2 in all time Greatest ODI player


21)In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman after Sir Donald Bradman.

22)he was involved in unbroken 664-run partnership in a Harris Shield game in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli

23)Tendulkar is the only player to score a century in all three of his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts

24)In 1992, at the age of 19, Tendulkar became the first overseas born player to represent Yorkshire

25)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.

26)Tendulkar has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year in ODI's 7 times


27)He is the highest earning cricketer in the world

28)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.

29)Tendulkar most number man of match awards(10) against Australia

30)Tendulkar has scored 1894 runs in calendar year in ODI's most by any batsman


31)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.

32)In November 2006, Time magazine named Tendulkar as one of the Asian Heroes.

33)In December 2006, he was named "Sports person of the Year

34)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.

35)Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 50 centuries in international cricket

36)Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 75 centuries in international cricket:79 centuries

37)Has the most overall runs in cricket, (ODIs+Tests+Twenty20s), as of 30 september 2008 he had accumulated over 26,000 runs overall.

38)Is first on the most number of runs in test cricket beating Brian Lara's record

39)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

40)The 20 century partnerships for opening pair with Sourav Ganguly is a world record


41)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

42)Sachin Tendulkar has been involved in six 200 run partnerships in ODI matches - a record that he shares with Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid

43)Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998

44)Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs (42 Centuries and 89 Fifties)(as of 18th Oct, 2008)

45)the only player ever to cross the 13,000-14,000,15000 and 16,000 run marks IN ODI.

46)Highest individual score among Indian batsmen (186* against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999).

47)The score of 186* is listed the fifth highest score recorded in ODI matches

48)Tendulkar has scored over 1000 ODI runs against all major Cricketing nations.

49)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

50)Most number of Stadium Appearances: 90 different Grounds