Factfile on India's Sachin Tendulkar who begins his 21st year in international cricket next week:
Full name: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Right-hand batsman, right-arm slow bowler.
Date of birth: April 24, 1973
Major teams: India, Mumbai, Yorkshire
Height: 5
feet, 5 inches
Test debut: v Pakistan, Karachi, November 15, 1989
One-day debut: v Pakistan, Gujranwala, December 18, 1989
Twenty20 debut: v South Africa, Johannesburg, December 1, 2006
Career:
Tests:
Matches 159, Runs 12,773 runs, Average 54.58, Centuries 42, Wickets 44.
One-dayers:
Matches 436, Runs 17,178, Average 44.50, Centuries 45, Wickets 154
Twenty20:
Match 1, Runs 10, Average 10.00, Wicket 1.
World records:
- Most Test runs (12,773) and centuries (42)
- Most one-day runs (17,178) and centuries (45)
- Most World Cup runs (1,796)
- 1,000 or more Test runs in a calendar year five times: 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2008. (Shares the feat with Matthew Hayden (AUS), Ricky Ponting (AUS) and Brian Lara (WIS))
- 1,000 or more one-day runs in a calendar year seven times: 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2007.
- First batsman to score more than 50 international centuries. His tally stands at 87 - 42 Test and 45 one-day hundreds.