Sachin is the first sportsman conferred Bharat Ratna

NEW DELHI: God of Cricket Sachin Tendulkar was conferred with the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, by President Pranab Mukherjee in a glittering ceremony in the Durbar Hall of the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday.

Sachin Tendulkar, who was nominated to the Rajya Sabha last year, is the first sportsperson and the youngest recipient of the award.

Tendulkar, who retired from all forms of cricket last November, is the one most accomplished cricketers in the world, finishing his illustrious career with a fair clutch of records. He has 15,921 runs from a record 200 Test matches at an average of 53.58 and 51 centuries.

Tendulkar, 40, finished his ODI career last December just minutes before the team for Pakistan was announced. He has scored 18,426 runs from 463 ODIs with an average of 44.83 including 49 centuries. He was also the first to score a double hundred in the 50-over format

National Honours for Sachin Tendulkar :

1994 : Arjuna Award, in recognition of his outstanding achievement in sports.
1997-98 : Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest honour given for achievement in sports.
1999 : Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award.
2008 : Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award.
2014 : Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award.

Sachin Tendulkar becomes first cricketer to get 15,000 Test runs

New Delhi: God of cricket Sachin Tendulkar achieved another milestone as he become the first player in history to score 15,000 runs in Test match cricket against the West Indies at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in New Delhi.

Sachin Tendulkar ended the day unbeaten on 33, Playing in his 182nd match, Tendulkar reached the mark on the third day of the first cricket Test against the West Indies when he scored his 28th run in India's second innings with a single off leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo.

After crossing the coveted milestone, the batting maestro looked up at the heavens and acknowledged the standing ovation given by his teammates from the dressing room as his partner Rahul Dravid congratulated him.

The West Indian players also came up after the completion of the over to congratulate the iconic batsman.

Sachin Tendulkar was 35 runs short of 15,000 before this match and he scored seven in the first innings before being adjidged leg-before off Fidel Edwards.

With 14,422 crowd cheering him, Tendulkar, who came in at the fall of Virender Sehwag's wicket when the team total was 95 for two, played cautiously with India needing 276 runs to win the match.

He hit just two fours after facing 76 balls to reach 28. The 38-year-old Tendulkar, the world's most prolific batsman, now needs just one hundred to complete a historic 100 international tons. He has scored 51 Test tons and 48 ODI hundreds.

Tendulkar is the first cricketer in the history of the game to reach 12, 000, 13, 000 and 14, 000 runs in the Test format. He is the leading run-scorer in both ODIs and Tests, as well as in the number of centuries scored.

Tendulkar is the first Indian cricketer to break Sunil Gavaskar's record of 34 Test centuries, and is also the only player in the limited-overs format to score 200 runs in an innings.

Top run-getters in Test cricket (minimum 10,000 runs)

15,005* - Sachin Tendulkar (IND)

12,859* - Rahul Dravid (IND)

12,487 - Ricky Ponting (AUS)

11,953 - Brian Lara (WIS)

11,947 - Jacques Kallis (RSA)

11,174 - Allan Border (AUS)

10,927 - Steve Waugh (AUS)

10,122 - Sunil Gavaskar (IND)

Sachin Tendulkar feared my pace: Shoaib Akhtar

God of cricket Sachin Tendulkar Friday declined to comment on controversial Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Akhtar's remark that he and team-mate Rahul Dravid did not have the ability to finish matches.

Former Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar said here Friday that people should read his autobiography first to ‘understand his remarks’ about Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, and added that they are ‘world class cricketers’.

In the book, Akhtar has claimed that god of cricket Sachin Tendulkar and wall of Indian cricket Rahul Dravid, who have scored 56,000 between them in Tests and ODIs, lack the ability to finish matches.

Harbhajan Singh Said, "I don't know what Shoaib is up to and what made him say so. If you talk about Sachin Tendulkar, obviously I would say that he is not only the best cricketer in India but in the world as well.

Everyone will vouch that Sachin is the best starter and best finisher in cricket. That he is still going strong speaks volumes. Dravid has been amazing in the manner he has batted.

Tendulkar's childhood friend and former cricketer Vinod Kambli,said Sachin was never scared of Akhtar's bowling, as claimed in the Pakistan cricketer's book.

'Sachin was never scared of Shoaib or anyone. Look at the way he played his cricket and scored highest runs.

"Nobody is even close to him and nobody ever dares talk to him"

like that," Kambli said.

Sachin Tendulkar's idea for ODIs interesting: Dravid

Mumbai: It might have been rejected by the ICC but god of cricket Sachin Tendulkar's suggestion to revamp the ODIs by splitting the format into four innings of 25 overs each has got the backing of his Test teammate wall of indian cricket Rahul Dravid.

Its a very interesting suggestion said by sachin. I don't know why the ICC has rejected it, but it's a good idea that Sachin has given and is worth experimenting, said by dravid on Wednesday.

Sachin Tendulkar had written a letter to the ICC to change the format of the ODIs from two innings of 50 overs to four of 25 overs like a Test match but the world council's Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat had rejected it.

God of cricket Sachin Tendulkar crossed 30,000 runs in international cricket

Master blaster Cricket God Sachin Tendulkar has reached another milestone in his career by completing a phenomenal 30,000 runs in international cricket during the Test match against Sri Lanka in Ahmedabad

Sachin Tendulkar has scored 17,178 runs in ODI cricket,
Cricket god Sachin has scored 12,812 runs in Test Matches
God of cricket Tendulkar has scored 10 runs in the only T20 International ( Played Very Less In T20's)

He holds all the World record for most ODI and Test runs and centuries. Already Sachin Crossed his 20 glorious years in cricket and their is a wide gap between him and his contemporaries.Its so difficult for anybody to catch up with the great batsman Cricket Legend Sachin tendulkar.Next in line for the feat is is Australia captain Ricky Ponting, who had recently crossed 24,000 runs. Think how Far our Cricket God is.....

Disappointed Continues to god of cricket sachin tendulkar

Disappointed Continues sachin of wrong leg before decision by umpires after eight months. The bad decision by the umpire Ashoka De Silva trouble to make 17000 runs to him. Just 7 more runs to cross, Cricket god Sachin tendulkar reasonably disappointed in the dressing room after watching the replays as he thought the ball would have missed leg stump. While whole India fans upset by that decision. And his fans all around the world waiting for the 5th ODI match on Thursday in Hyderabad.

As a fan I condemn these wrong decisions by the umpires and I hope the ICC will take a correct rule to avoid especially to my god of cricket sachin tendulkar.

Cricket God sachin practices hard for the upcoming ODI series against Australia

Mumbai - God of cricket sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag practices hard for the upcoming ODI series against Australia on Oct. 25.The first ODI is to be played in Vadodara and venues of the other matches are Nagpur, New Delhi, Mohali, Hyderabad, Guwahati and Mumbai.

Too hard to beat Cricket god Sachin tendulkar's Records Said Ricky Pointing

MUMBAI - Ricky Ponting said win matches for Australia is his first motive than chase the record-breaking feats of God of cricket Sachin Tendulkar. Still it’s too hard to beat Indian Batsman Sachin tendulkar's Records. It would be fine if Sachin Tendulkar retires soon .He added Sachin Tendulkar 36 had set a benchmark for International cricket players in the world. He is moving into his 20th year in International Cricket.

Cricket God Sachin Tendulkar

In Test Matches - 12,773 runs with 42 centuries.
In ODI Matches - 16,903 runs with 44 centuries.

Ricky Pointing

In Test Matches - 11,345 runs with 38 centuries.
In ODI Matches - 12,044 runs with 28 centuries.

Comparison shows ricky is too far and too hard to achieve the record-breaking feats by Sachin

Sachin Tendulkar back to his best, says Manjrekar

Sanjay Manjrekar said God of cricket Sachin Tendulkar was back to his best, after the match winning century in the final match of the Compaq Cup tri-series and reaches his 44th ODI Century.

Sachin opts out of Caribbean ODI tour

Indian Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar is set to miss India's 4 match ODI tour to the West Indies beginning on June 26.The maestro is presently in London with his family.

According to informants, Sachin Tendulkar, who is now recovering from a finger injury, has conveyed to the selectors that he is not still fully 100 percent fit and would like to skip the one-day series.

We miss u Cricket God ... Please recover soon ... expecting you to come back earlier to show that your the only and only God Of Cricket in this Cricket Histroy.

Sachin Tendulkar to miss fourth ODI in Hamilton

Little master Sachin tendulkar is in doubt for the fourth ODI in Hamilton on tomorrow because of abdomen injury in the third game. Cricket God Sachin went to the hospital on Monday and the scan report that the injury is not as series. But he suffered from swelling and bruising.

Sachin is on the top of series with consistency runs of 20, 61 & 163 runs in his three ODIs in this tour, the test series also keep on to play shortly so the team management may perhaps rest him for the preventive measure.

Injury impede the world record for Sachin

Indian maestro Sachin tendulkar got injured during the third ODI match against New Zealand. All of his fans around the world expecting that Kings of Records sachin break the world record of highest run scored in the ODI by Saed Anwar. But the expectation was washed out by the major injury in his stomach .He retired hurt with a pulled stomach muscle in the 45th over. He scored an unbeaten 163(133) with 16 fours and 5 sixes. Cricket God Sachin Tendulkar was the Man of the Match in this game. He told that I simply went off and enjoyed the match that I played before as well as I am not targeting for the records. I just played a good game and enjoyed myself and keep India to win. This is the first one day century for sachin tendulkar in New Zealand.

There is nothing impossible for the Little Maestro sachin Tendulkar in the world cricket.

Little Master Sachin Tendulkar The King Of The Records

New Records

1. Highest Run scorer in the Test Cricket
2. First Cricketer to pass 12000 run in the Test Cricket

Records Held by Sachin Tendulkar

1. Highest Run scorer in the ODI
2. Most number of hundreds in the ODI 41
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 87
15. Appeared in Most Number of ODI's 407
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 40
18. He is one of the three batsmen to surpass 11,000 runs in Test cricket, and the first Indian to do so
19. He is thus far the only cricketer to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India 's highest sporting honor
20. In 2003, Wisden rated Cricket God 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. Tendulkar has scored 1894 runs in calendar year in ODI's most by any batsman
28. He is the highest earning cricketer in the world
29. 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.
30. Tendulkar most number man of match awards(10) against Australia
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 June 2007 he had accumulated almost 26,000 runs overall.
38. Is second on the most number of runs in test cricket just after Brian Lara
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 (41 Centuries and 87 Fifties)(as of 18th Nov, 2007)
45. the only player ever to cross the 13,000-14,000 and 15,000 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
51. Consecutive ODI Appearances: 185
52. On his debut, Sachin Tendulkar was the second youngest debutant in the world
53. When Tendulkar scored his maiden century in 1990, he was the second youngest to score a century
54. Tendulkar's record of five test centuries before he turned 20 is a current world record
55. 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
56. 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
57. 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).[6] Gavaskar is the only other Indian with four seasons of 1000+ runs
58. He is second most number of seasons with over 1000 runs in world.
59. On 3 January 2007 Sachin Tendulkar (5751) edged past Brian Lara's (5736) world record of runs scored in Tests away from home
60. Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket history. Both of them achieved this in 195 innings
61. Second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to make over 10,000 runs in Test matches
62. Became the first Indian to surpass the 11,000 Test run mark and the third International player behind Allan Border and Brian Lara.
63. 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
64.. Tendulkar has played the most number of Test Matches(144) for India (Kapil Dev is second with 131 Test appearances).
65. First to 25,000 international runs
66. 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.
67. 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.
68. Tendulkar is the only player who has 150 wkts and more than 15000 runs in ODI
69. Tendulkar is the only player who has 40 wkts and more than 11000 runs in Tests
70. Only batsman to have 100 hundreds in the first class cricket