SACHIN TENDULKAR

                                                     SOME FACTS ABOUT SACHIN

- Sachin Tendulkar is India's first active cricketer to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha.

- As an aspiring fast bowler a young Sachin Tendulkar was rejected by Dennis Lillee’s MRF Pace Foundation in 1987.

- During the 1987 world cup, Sachin was a ball boy for the match between India and Zimbabwe at the Wankhede Stadium. He was 14 then.

- Sachin Tendulkar fielded for Pakistan as a substitute during a one-day practice match against India at the Brabourne Stadium in 1988.

- Tendulkar has 13 coins from his coach Ramakant Achrekar. He would win a coin if he could get through an entire session of nets without being dismissed.

- In October 1995, Sachin became the richest cricketer when he signed a five-year contract worth Rs 31.5 crore with World Tel.

- Sachin Tendulkar used to sleep with his cricket gear during his junior days.

- Sachin Tendulkar loves collecting perfumes and watches.

- Tendulkar’s first car was a Maruti-800.

- Sachin Tendulkar was the first international batsman to be given out by the third-umpire. In 1992, on the second day of the Durban Test, a Jonty Rhodes throw caught Tendulkar short of the crease. After watching TV replays he was adjudged out. Karl Liebenberg of South Africa was third umpire in the match.

- At 19, Sachin Tendulkar became the youngest Indian to play county cricket.

- The first advertisement in which Sachin featured was for a sticking plaster.

- The first brand which Sachin Tendulkar endorsed was the health drink ‘Boost.’ He was seen alongside Kapil Dev in many of their ad films, the start of which happened in 1990.

- In his debut Test match English fast bowler Alan Mullally complained that Sachin Tendulkar was batting with a bat broader than the normal willow.

- Sachin Tendulkar started off with centuries in his debut matches in the Ranji, Duleep and Irani Trophy.

- Sachin Tendulkar was led onto the field on his Ranji debut by his then captain, Ravi Shastri.

- Sachin Tendulkar uses a very heavy bat at the crease, weighing 3.2lbs. Only South Africa's Lance Klusener used a heavier bat in world cricket.

- Sachin Tendulkar, who is considered as calm character was a big bully in the school.

- Sachin Tendulkar went to watch the movie Roja in 1995 with a beard and disguise. It all went wrong when his glasses fell off and the crowd in the cinema hall recognized him.

- Sachin Tendulkar has been granted the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award and Padma Shri by the Indian government. He is the only Indian cricketer to get all of them.

- When young Sachin fell from a tree on a Sunday evening during his summer vacation, while Guide was shown on national TV, his infuriated brother (and mentor) Ajit sent him to cricket coaching class as punishment.

- The naughty Sachin Tendulkar used to go fishing for tadpoles and guppy fishes in the stream that ran through the compound of Sahitya Sahawas at Bandra East.

- Sachin Tendulkar once told a Marathi news channel in an interview that his weakness is 'vada-pao', a popular Maharashtrian snack.

- Sachin used his favourite vampire bat during the innings in which he scored the historical 50th Test ton.

- Sachin Tendulkar batted in his debut Test against Pakistan wearing the pads gifted to him by Sunil Gavaskar.

- Sachin Tendulkar was a huge fan of John McEnroe, a former tennis legend. He grew his hair and tied a band around it to copy his idol.

- Tendulkar has scored most centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998.

- In 1998 he made 1,894 ODI runs, a record for ODI runs by any batsman in a calendar year.

- Sachin Tendulkar is himself a role model for many admires from other sports such as tennis starts Pete Sampras and Boris Becker, and Argentina footballer Diego Maradona.

- Sachin Tendulkar was named after the great musician Sachin Dev Burman. Sachin’s father’s, Ramesh Tendulkar was a big fan of SD’s music.

- Sachin loves Kishore Kumar and rock group Dire Straits.

- Sachin calls Sourav Ganguly 'Babu Moshai' while Ganguly calls him 'Chhota Babu'.

- Sachin once made his mother look for a frog Bhaji recipe!

- The nanny who looked after Sachin has been universally called Sachuchi Bai.

- Sachin is so possessive about his Ferrari that wife Anjali is not allowed to drive it.

- Sachin loved to play tennis ball cricket and darts during rain breaks.

- A prankster that he is, Sachin once put a hose pipe into Sourav Ganguly's room and turned the tap on.

- Sachin Tendulkar was without a bat contract until the start of the 1996 Cricket World Cup. At the end of the tournament a famous tyre manufacturer sponsored his willow.

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                                             SOME FAMOUS PERSONALITIES

SIR DON BRADMAN of AUSTRALIA had a Test average of 99.94 and an overall first-class average of 95.14, records unmatched by any other player.

SIR VIV RICHARDS of WESTINDIES He was voted as the best one day batsman of all the time.

SACHIN TENDULKAR of INDIA After Sir Don Bradman he was rated as second greatest batsman in test matches.

Jacques Kallis of South Africa is one of the greatest all-rounders of all time, being the only cricketer in the history of the game to hold more than 11,000 runs and 250 wickets in both one day and Test match cricket.

Brian Lara of the West Indies holds the record for highest score in both Tests and first-class cricket.

Sri Lankan bowler Muttiah Muralitharan, the highest wicket taker in both Test and ODI forms of cricket.

SAHID AFRIDI of PAKISTAN had record of hitting the longest six (158 m).

And there are many more like RAHUL DRAVID , MARK WAGH , ALAN DONALD, SOURAV GANGULY , CRIS GAYLE , GLEN MAGRATH, WASIM AKRAM ,WAQAR YOUNIS , ADAM GILKRIST , SHANE WARNE , JAVED MIADAD, RICK POINTING and many more. 

                                              EMERGING OF CRICKET

Cricket can definitely be traced back to Tudor times in early 16th-century England. Written evidence exists of a game known as creag being played by Prince Edward, the son of Edward I (Longshanks), at Newenden, Kent in 1301[4] and there has been speculation, but no evidence, that this was a form of cricket.
The earliest definite reference .to cricket being played in England (and hence anywhere) is in evidence given at a 1598 court case which mentions that "creckett" was played on common land in Guildford, Surrey, around 1550.

A newspaper report survives of "a great cricket match" with eleven players a side that was played for high stakes in Sussex in 1697 and this is the earliest known reference to a cricket match of such importance.

                                                                                       The game underwent major development in the 18th century and became the national sport of England.The Hambledon Cricket Club was founded in the 1760s and, for the next 20 years until the formation of MCC and the opening of Lord's Old Ground in 1787, Hambledon was both the game's greatest club and its focal point. MCC quickly became the sport's premier club and the custodian of the Laws of Cricket.

New Laws introduced in the latter part of the 18th century included the three stump wicket and leg before wicket (lbw).

In 1844, the first international cricket match took place between the United States and Canada (although neither has ever been ranked as a Test-playing nation).

In 1862, an English team made the first tour of Australia and in 1876–77, an England team took part in the first-ever Test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground against Australia.

ICC  It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from England, Australia and South Africa, renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989 International Cricket Councile. After thisWESTINDIES JOINED IN 1926 INDIA & NEWZELAND joined cricket in 1926, PAKISTAN joined in 1953 and SRILANKA in 1981.