Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (born
24 April 1973) is a previous Indian cricketer and a previous commander, generally viewed as one of the best batsmen ever. The most elevated run scorer ever in International cricket, Tendulkar took up cricket at eleven years old, influenced his Test to make a big appearance 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 global hundreds of years, the primary batsman to score a twofold century in a One Day International, the holder of the record for the most number 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, 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 piece of the Indian group that won the 2011 World Cup, his first win in six World Cup appearances for India. He had beforehand been named "Player of the Tournament" at the 2003 version of the competition, held in South Africa. In 2013, he was the main Indian cricketer incorporated into an unequaled Test World XI named to check the 150th commemoration of Wisden Cricketers' Almanac.

Tendulkar got the Arjuna Award in 1994 for his remarkable wearing accomplishment, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna grant in 1997, India's most astounding brandishing honor, and the Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan grants in 1999 and 2008, individually, India's fourth and second most astounding non military personnel grants. 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 noteworthy non military personnel grant. He is the most youthful beneficiary to date and the primary ever sportsperson to get the honor. He additionally won the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC awards.In 2012, Tendulkar was named to the Rajya Sabha, the upper place of the Parliament of India. He was likewise the main sportsperson and the principal individual without a flight foundation to be granted the privileged rank of gathering chief by the Indian Air Force. In 2012, he was named a Honorary Member of the Order of Australia.

In December 2012, Tendulkar declared his retirement from ODIs. He resigned from Twenty20 cricket in October 2013 and along these lines resigned from all types of cricket on 16 November 2013 subsequent to playing his 200th Test coordinate, against the West Indies in Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium.Tendulkar played 664 universal cricket coordinates altogether, scoring 34,357 runs.()