Sachin Tendulkar Wiki

• March 18,2006, Another milestone awaits Sachin Tendulkar as he sets out to play his 132nd Test, the most by any Indian ever, at his home ground in Mumbai.

• March 19,2006, after scoring an unconvincing 1 off 21 balls against England in the first innings of the third Test in his home ground, Wankhede, Tendulkar was booed off the ground by a section of the crowd, the first time that he has ever faced such flak. While cheered on when he came for his second innings, Tendulkar, was the top scorer in the second innings and yet was to end the three-Test series without a single half-century to his credit, and news of a shoulder operation raised more questions about his longevity.

• Tendulkar was operated upon for his injured shoulder forcing him to skip the tour of West Indies in 2006.

• 23 May 2006, after deciding not to undergo a scheduled fitness test, he announced he would miss the tour of the Caribbean for the Test series. However he agreed to play 5 games for Lashings World XI in order to regain fitness for a possible August comeback. He had scored 155, 147(retired), 98, 101(retired) & 105 in the 5 matches for Lashings XI with strike rate of well above 100 and was the top scorer in all the matches.

• Also in his first Twenty20 match with international opposition, although unofficial, Tendulkar hit 50 not out off 21 deliveries to blast the International XI to 123 after 10 overs against the Pakistan XI.

• He then came for the DLF cup in Malaysia and became the only Indian batsman to shine. In his most recent comeback match, against West Indies on 14th September 2006, Tendulkar responded to his critics who believed that his career was inexorably sliding with his 40th ODI century. Though he scored 141*, West Indies won the rain-affected match by the D/L method. Tendulkar now has 18 more ODI tons than the players who are second on the list of ODI century-makers, Sourav Ganguly and Sanath Jayasuriya [8].

• January 2007 Tendulkar scored a 76-ball century against the West Indies which makes it his 41st ODI century. He reached a hundred on the last ball of the Indian innings. Tendulkar now has 18 more ODI tons than Sanath Jayasuriya who is second on the list of ODI century-makers

• Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 50 centuries in international cricket. He has now scored 76 (35 in Tests, 41 in ODIs

• At Cricket World Cup 2007 in the West Indies, Tendulkar and the Indian cricket team had a dismal campaign. Tendulkar had scores of 7 (Bangladesh), 57* (Bermuda) and 0 (Sri Lanka).

• Sachin's 37th ton against Bangladesh during the 2007 series 2nd Test, made history as the 1st time the top four batsman of any team had all scored centuries in a single innings. Dinesh Karthik made 129, Wasim Jaffer 138 and Rahul Dravid 129 were the other centurions.

• 29th June  2007, Sachin Tendulkar reached yet another milestone in his illustrious career by becoming the first cricketer ever to score 15,000 ODI runs in the second one-dayer against South Africa in Belfast

• Tendulkar boasts of most ODI centuries, won most (55) Man of the Match and most (13) Man of the Series Awards.