Posted by: gaunlebhai January 24, 2008
Tendulkar - What a Batsman!
Login in to Rate this Post:     0       ?        

BELOW SPEAKS FOR ITSELF FOR PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE JUST TO OPPOSE

 

Test Cricket

Some remarkable achievements of his career in test cricket are:

Highest number of Test centuries (39), beating Sunil Gavaskar's record (34) on 10 December 2005 vs Sri Lanka in Delhi.
The 31-year-old Tendulkar also became only the third player in history, after Gary Kirsten and Steve Waugh, to score centuries against all test-playing nations.
In 1989/90 at the age of just 16 years and 205 days, he became the youngest player to play at the test level for India against Pakistan at Karachi. He scored his first test century at the age of 17 years and 112 days.
At the age of 19 he became the youngest player to score 1000 test runs, during India's tour of South Africa (1992/93).
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).
Among those who have played over 100 Test matches, he is the only one with a batting average above 55.
sachin sees him become the youngest player ever to play in his 100th Test Match for any country.
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.
Only second Indian to cross 10,000 runs in Test matches.
Second fastest player to reach 9000 runs (Brian Lara made 9000 in 177 innings, Sachin in 179.)
While his batting ranks him among the best in the world, he is also a part-time bowler and has played a crucial role as a leg spinner or a medium pace bowler who tends to break partnerships.
Batting average of over 50 against the best cricketing opposition in the world - Australia.

Test
Australia - 8 Centuries [5 in Australia], 2 of them at the age of 18 in 1992
Bangladesh- 1 Century [Unfortunately his highest score in Test Cricket]
England- 6 Centuries [4 in England],
NewZealand- 3 Centuries [1 in NewZealand]
Pakistan- 2 Centuries [1 in Pakistan]
SouthAfrica- 3 Centuries [all three in South Africa]
Srilanka- 7 Centuries [4 in Srilanka]
WestIndies- 3 Centuries [ 1 in WestIndies]
Zimbabwe- 3 Centuries [ none in Zimbabwe]

Batting and fielding averages
Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 4s 6s Ct St
Tests 145 235 25 11616 248* 55.31 38 49 44 98 0
ODIs 407 397 37 15962 186* 44.33 18669 85.50 41 87 1747 166 120 0
T20Is 1 1 0 10 10 10.00 12 83.33 0 0 2 0 1 0
First-class 245 383 40 20379 248* 59.41 64 95 165 0
List A 494 482 51 19514 186* 45.27 52 105 155 0
Twenty20 5 5 0 198 69 39.60 119 166.38 0 2 30 5 2 0

Bowling averages
Mat Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 4w 5w 10
Tests 145 123 3856 2206 42 3/10 3/14 52.52 3.43 91.8 0 0 0
ODIs 407 263 7985 6774 154 5/32 5/32 43.98 5.09 51.8 4 2 0
T20Is 1 1 15 12 1 1/12 1/12 12.00 4.80 15.0 0 0 0
First-class 245 7215 4095 67 3/10 61.11 3.40 107.6 0 0
List A 494 10161 8402 201 5/32 5/32 41.80 4.96 50.5 4 2 0
Twenty20 5 4 57 65 2 1/12 1/12 32.50 6.84 28.5 0 0 0

 

 

Read Full Discussion Thread for this article