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He captained the Indian team at the age of 23.
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He is the wealthiest Indian cricketer due to his contracts of millions of US dollars a year with MRF and Pepsi ,etc. Till 1997 he had 7.5 Million US Dollars . He had also signed a contract with Adidas products.
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He scored a century in the first match as captain of Indian team.
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He was the first ever overseas player to play for Yorkshire.
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At the age of 19 he became the youngest player to score 1000 test runs, during India's tour of South Africa (1992/93).
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During his school days aged 13 Sachin's scores read 27 no, 125, 207 no, 346 no and the now famous 329 no in the finals which involved a record unbroken partnership of 664 with childhood friend Vinod Kambli. Sachin' s average in schools cricket read a mind-boggling 1034.
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In 1989/90 at the age of just 16 years and 205 days, he became the youngest player to play at the test level for India against Pakistan at Karachi. He scored his first test century at the age of 17 years and 112 days.
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1990,At 17 Sachin became the 2nd youngest to score a score a Test century when he scored a match saving 119 on India's tour of England. He finished the series with an average of 61.25.
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