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[edit] Achievements Sachin Tendulkar's career performance graph. [edit] Test cricket Highlights of Tendulkar's Test career include: Rated as the second best batsman of all time (next to Don Bradman) by Wisden [1][21] Highest number of Test centuries (35), overtaking Sunil Gavaskar's record (34) on 10 December 2005 vs Sri Lanka in Delhi. Played in the highest number of Cricket Grounds - he has played Test Cricket on 52 different grounds, ahead of Azharuddin (48), Kapil Dev (47), Inzamam-ul-Haq (46) and Wasim Akram (45). He is the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket history. He holds this record along with Brian Lara. Both of them achieved this feat in 195 innings. 4th highest tally of runs in Test cricket (10,469) Career Average 55.39 - Has the highest average among those who have scored over 10,000 Test runs Second Indian to make over 10,000 runs in Test matches. Has 37 Test wickets (14 Dec 2005) Third fastest player to reach 9,000 runs (Rahul Dravid made 9000 runs in 176 innings, Brian Lara made 9000 in 177 innings, Sachin in 179.) [edit] ODI Highlights of Tendulkar's ODI career include: Most runs (14,405 as of 15th October, 2006) Most centuries (40) Played most number of ODIs (368), (as of October 15th 2006). Played most number of consecutive ODI matches (185)[22] Most Man of the Match (52) awards[23] Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs as of September, 2006 Second most number of Fifties (73). Inzamam-Ul-Haq is the only batsman who has scored more Fifties (83) than Tendulkar. [24] Appeared on the most grounds (90 different grounds) Most ODI runs by any batsman in any given calendar year - 1,894 ODI runs in 1998. Most Centuries by a player in one year - 9 ODI centuries in 1998 Most centuries vs. Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. Holds the record for scoring 1,000 ODI runs in a calendar year. He has done it six times - 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2003. Highest batting average among batsmen with over 10,000 ODI runs (as of September 2006) First cricketer and fastest cricketer to cross 10,000-run mark, 11,000-run mark, 12,000-run mark, 13,000 run-mark and 14,000 run-mark in ODIs Only cricketer to cross 14,000-run mark in ODIs Over 100 wickets (142 as of October, 2006) Highest individual score among Indian batsmen (186* against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999) [edit] World Cup Most runs (1732 at an average of 59.72) in World Cup Cricket History 673 runs in 2003 World Cup, highest by any one in a single Cricket World Cup Player Of The Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup. [edit] Miscellaneous He was the first overseas cricketer to play for Yorkshire CCC in 1993. Shane Warne famously remarked after the Australian tour of India, and then Sharjah in 1998, that his nightmares are full of "Sachin coming, dancing down the track and lofting me over for yet another six !" [edit] Man of the Match awards [edit] 10 Awards in Test cricket # Date Against Venue 1 August 9, 1990 England Old Trafford 2 February 11, 1993 England Chidambaram Stadium 3 October 25, 1995 New Zealand Chidambaram Stadium 4 March 6, 1998 Australia Chidambaram Stadium 5 January 28, 1999 Pakistan Chidambaram Stadium 6 October 29, 1999 New Zealand Sardar Patel Stadium 7 December 26, 1999 Australia Melbourne Cricket Ground 8 February 24, 2000 South Africa Wankhede Stadium 9 October 30, 2002 West Indies Eden Gardens 10 January 2, 2004 Australia Sydney Cricket Ground [edit] 52 Awards in ODI # Date Against Venue 1 1990-91 Srilanka Pune 2 1991-92 West Indies Sharjah 3 1991-92 South Africa Kolkata 4 1991-92 West Indies Melbourne 5 1991-92 Pakistan Sydney 6 1991-92 Zimbabwe Hamilton, New Zealand 7 1993-94 New Zealand Auckland 8 1994 Australia Colombo 9 1994-95 New Zealand Vadodara 10 1994-95 New Zealand Delhi 11 1994-95(Wills World Series Final) West Indies Kolkata 12 1994-95 (Pepsi Asia Cup) Srilanka Sharjah 50 March 16, 2004 Pakistan Rawalpindi 51 July 21, 2004 Bangladesh Sinhalese Sports Club Ground 52 September 14, 2006 West Indies Kuala Lumpur[25] [edit] Trivia Tendulkar has been seen taking his Ferrari 360 Modena for late-night drives in Mumbai. (Gifted by Fiat through Michael Schumacher, the car became notorious when Tendulkar was given customs exemption; Fiat paid the dues to end the controversy.) During India's tour to Australia, he was declared out LBW after ducking and being hit by bouncer that kept low, which lead commentators to coin the term "shoulder before wicket". Sachin Tendulkar was the first batsman to have been declared run out by a third umpire in 1992 against South Africa in South Africa. Tendulkar is ambidexterous. He writes with his left hand but bats & bowls right-handed. During his early days as a schoolboy cricketer he went to the MRF pace academy to train as a pace bowler but was sent back home. Owns a restaurant, Tendulkar's in Colaba, Bombay. Tendulkar's in one of India's very few if not only, personality-themed restaurant. He was the first batsman in history to score over 50 centuries in international cricket. In fact, He has scored 74.