Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar ( conceived 24 April 1973) is a previous Indian cricketer and skipper, generally viewed as one of the best batsmen ever. He took up cricket at eleven years old, made his Test debut on 15 November 1989 against Pakistan in Karachi at sixteen years old, and went ahead to speak to Mumbai locally and India universally for near twenty-four years. He is the main player to have scored one hundred universal hundreds of years, the primary batsman to score a twofold century in a One Day International, the holder of the record for the quantity of keeps running in both ODI and Test cricket, and the main player to finish more than 30,000 keeps running in worldwide cricket.In 2002 simply part of the way through his profession, Wisden Cricketers' Almanac positioned him the second most prominent Test batsman ever, behind Don Bradman, and the second most prominent ODI batsman ever, behind Viv Richards. Later in his vocation, Tendulkar was a part of the Indian group that won the 2011 World Cup, his first win in six World Cup appearances for India. He had already been named "Player of the Tournament" at the 2003 release of the competition, held in South Africa. In 2013, he was the main Indian cricketer incorporated into a record-breaking Test World XI named to check the 150th commemoration of Wisden Cricketers' Almanac.
Tendulkar got the Arjuna Award in 1994 for his extraordinary donning accomplishment, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna recompense in 1997, India's most noteworthy wearing honor, and the Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan grants in 1999 and 2008, separately, India's fourth and second most elevated regular citizen recompenses. Following a couple of hours of his last match on 16 November 2013, the Prime Minister's Office reported the choice to grant him the Bharat Ratna, India's most elevated non military personnel honor. He is the most youthful beneficiary to date and the main ever sportsperson to get the grant. He likewise won the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC honors. In 2012, Tendulkar was selected to the Rajya Sabha, the upper place of the Parliament of India. He was likewise the primary sportsperson and the main individual without an avionics foundation to be granted the privileged rank of gathering commander by the Indian Air Force. In 2012, he was named a Honorary Member of the Order of Australia.
In December 2012, Tendulkar reported his retirement from ODIs. He resigned from Twenty20 cricket in October 2013 and in this way declared his retirement from all types of cricket, resigning on 16 November 2013 in the wake of playing his 200th and last Test match, against the West Indies in Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium. Tendulkar played 664 worldwide cricket matches altogether, scoring 34,357 runs.