REUTERS –
Sachin Tendulkar became
the first batsman to score 200 runs in one-day internationals on
Wednesday in the second ODI against South Africa in
Gwalior, India.
The 36-year-old former India captain earlier in the day broke the
world record for the highest individual score of 194 by Pakistan's Saeed
Anwar and Zimbabwe's Charles Coventry on his way to 200 not out off 147
balls with 25 fours and three sixes.
Here are six facts about one of the all-time greatest batsmen and
the face of
Indian cricket
for over two decades.
* A teenage prodigy, Tendulkar was born on April 24, 1973 in Mumbai
and made his test debut against Pakistan as a curly-haired 16-year-old,
becoming the youngest Indian test player. A year later, he hit his
maiden test hundred in
England.
* Tendulkar holds a number of batting records, including the
aggregate one-day runs (17,598) and centuries (46). He also holds the
record for most test hundreds (47).
* He had two unsuccessful terms as India captain, the first aged 23
in 1996 before being axed 17 months later after his batting suffered. He
was reappointed in 1999, but stood down after a 3-0 test series rout in
Australia the following year.
* Tendulkar was named player of the
2003 World Cup, scoring a record 673 runs to
help India reach the final, where they lost to Australia. The next
year, he equalled compatriot
Sunil Gavaskar's world record of 34 test
hundreds while compiling 248 not out, his
highest score, in Australia.
* Wisden
Cricketer
of the Year in 1997.
* Surpassed
West
Indies' Brian Lara as the highest test run-scorer in 2008. Lara
had scored 11,953 runs before he retired from
international cricket in 2007. Tendulkar has scored 13,447 test runs.
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