seen alongside Kapil Dev in many of their ad films, the start of which happened in 1990.
2) Sachin Tendulkar's first car was a Maruti-800
3) Sachin Tendulkar loves collecting perfumes and watches
4) Sachin Tendulkar is India's first active cricketer to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha.
5) Sachin Tendulkar fielded for Pakistan as a substitute during a one-day practice match against India at the Brabourne Stadium in 1988.
6)During his early days, Tendulkar would win a coin from his coach Ramakant Achrekar if he could bat through an entire session of nets without being dismissed. Tendulkar has 13 such coins.
7) In October 1995, Sachin became the richest cricketer when he signed a five-year contract worth Rs 31.5 crore with World Tel.
8) Sachin Tendulkar used to sleep with his cricket gear during his junior days.
9) At 19, Sachin Tendulkar became the youngest Indian to play county cricket.
10) 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.
11) 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
12) 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.
13) Sachin used his favorite vampire bat during the innings in which he scored the historical 50th Test ton.
14) Sachin Tendulkar batted in his debut Test against Pakistan wearing the pads gifted to him by Sunil Gavaskar.
15) Sachin Tendulkar has scored most centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998.
16) Sachin loves Kishore Kumar and rock group Dire Straits.
17) In 1992, Sachin became the youngest cricketer to reach a 1000 runs in Test cricket.
18) Sachin loved to play tennis ball cricket and darts during rain breaks.
19) Sachin Tendulkar wanted to be a bowler. His dream of becoming a fast bowler was rejected by Australian great Dennis Lillee at the MRF Pace Academy at Chennai in 1987.
20) Sachin Tendulkar was a ballboy during the 1987 Cricket World Cup
21) When Sachin won the man-of-match award for his first Test ton in 1990, he was given a champagne bottle. However, he could not pop it open as he was below 18 years (age limit for alcohol consumption in U.K.)
22) Holds a record for a 664-run partnership with former India player, Vinod Kambli, during an inter-school game in 1988
23) Tendulkar is the only batsman to have scored over 2,000 runs in World Cup cricket. He has amassed 2,278 runs in 45 matches. He has also been the top run scorer in an individual World Cup tournament twice – 673 runs in 2003 and 523 runs in 1996
24) Holds the record for scoring most 1,000 Test runs in a calendar year. He has done this six times – 2010 (1562 runs), 2008 (1063 runs), 2002 (1392 runs), 1999 (1088 runs), 2001 (1003 runs) and 1997 (1000 runs).
25) In 1998, he had his best year in ODI format with 1,894 runs consisting 9 centuries
26) Before the age of 20 he had already scored five Test centuries which is a world record.
27) Sachin Tendulkar favorite sports star is tennis player, John McEnroe
28) On debut he scored centuries in all three major domestic first-class tournaments: Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Cup
29) Feb 24, 2010 - At 36 years and 306 days he reached greater peaks by scoring the first double-century in one-day cricket vs South Africa at Gwalior.
30) Gursharan Singh played with one hand (despite a broken finger) to help Sachin get to a century in Irani Cup game of 1989-90
31) Sachin was returning from England’s tour in 1990 when he met his future wife, Anjali, for the first time at Mumbai airport
32) Sachin Tendulkar features in Sir Bradman’s all time Test XI, the only player from the current generation
33) During 2007 Lord’s Test, British actor Daniel Radcliffe queued up for an autograph of Sachin at the end of the game
34) Sachin Tendulkar scored a duck on his One Day International debut against Pakistan at Gujranwala on December 18, 1989
35) In 1992, he became the first overseas player to represent Yorkshire county team.
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