Wednesday 5 February 2014

sachin tendulkar......god of cricket.........

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar  is an Indian former cricketer widely acknowledged as the greatest batsaman of the modern generation, popularly holds the title "God of Cricket" among his fans. sachin tendulkar was born on 24th april 1973.In 2002, wisden cricketers almanack ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time,
behind don bradman, and the second greatest ODI batsman of all time, behind viv richards Later in his career, sachin Tendulkar was a part of the Indian team that won the 2011 world cup, his first win in six world cup appearances for India.
sachin tendulkar received the arjun award in 1994 for outstanding sporting achievement, the rajiv gandhi khel award in 1997, India's highest sporting honour, and the padma sri and padma vibushan awards in 1999 and 2008, respectively, India's fourth and second highest civilian awards. After a few hours of his final match on 16 November 2013, the prime ministers office announced the decision to award bharat ratna, India's highest civilian award. With the scientist c.n.r rao, he was conferred the award on 4 February 2014 by President pranab mukarjee in a special ceremony in the Durbar Hall of the rashtra pathi bhavan. He is the youngest recipient to date and the first ever sportsperson to receive the award. He also won the 2010 sir garfeilds thorphy for cricketer of the year at the ICC awards. In 2012, Tendulkar was nominated to rajya sabha, the upper house of the parp He was parliament of india also the first sportsperson (and the first without an aviation background) to be awarded the honorary rank of group captain by the indian air force. In 2012, he was named an Honorary member of the australia.