Sachin Tendulkar

From Wikipedia the free Encyclopedia Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar born 24 April 1973 is an Indian former international cricketer and a former captain of the Indian national team He is often regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket He is the highest run scorer of all time in International cricket Tendulkar took up cricket at the age of eleven made his Test debut on 15 November 1989 against Pakistan in Karachi at the age of sixteen and went on to represent Mumbai domestically and India internationally for close to twentyfour years He is the only player to have scored one hundred international centuries the first batsman to score a double century in an ODI the holder of the record for the most number of runs in both Test and ODI and the only player to complete more than 30000 runs in international cricket