Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (born 24 April 1973) is an Indian cricketer widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of his generation. He took up cricket at age of eleven, made his Test debut against Pakistan at just sixteen years old, and went on to represent Mumbai domestically and India internationally for more than twenty years. He retired from the Indian Premier League in May 2013 and has announced that he will retire from the sport in November 2013 after playing his two-hundredth Test match, against the West Indies in Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium. He is the first player to score one hundred international centuries, the first player to score a double century in a One Day International, and thus far the only to complete 34,000 runs in international cricket.
In 2002, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time, behind Don Bradman, and the second greatest one-day-international (ODI) batsman of all time, behind Viv Richards. Tendulkar was a part of the 2011 Cricket World Cup winning Indian team in the later part of his career, his first such win in six World Cup appearances for India. He was also the recipient of "Player of the Tournament" award of the 2003 Cricket World Cup held in South Africa. In October 2013, he became the only Indian cricketer to be named in an all-time Test World XI to mark the 150th anniversary of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
Tendulkar has been honoured with the Padma Vibhushan award, India's second highest civilian award, and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India's highest sporting honour. Tendulkar won the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC awards. In 2012, Tendulkar was nominated to Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India. He was also the first sportsperson and the first one without aviation background to be awarded the honorary rank of Group Captain by the Indian Air Force. He has been proposed for honorary doctorates from University of Mysore and Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences , but he declined to accept honorary doctorates while being active in cricket. In 2012, he was named as an Honorary Member of the Order of Australia.. On 14th Nov 2013, Department of Posts in India, announced to issue a set of a Miniature sheet and a sheetlet to commemorate the 200th Test Match of Sachin Tendulkar, which is also Tendulkar's last International match in any format. This has been only instance in Indian history after Mother Teresa, there have been commemorative stamps issued for a living person.
Sachin Tendulkar played 664 matches in international cricket,scoring 34,357 runs. On 5 October 2013, Sachin Tendulkar became the 16th player and first Indian to aggregate 50,000 runs in all recognised cricket (First-class cricket, List A cricket and Twenty20 combined). On 23 December 2012, Tendulkar announced his retirement from ODIs.
Tendulkar is the 51st richest sportsman in the world according to Forbes' list of world's highest-paid athletes for the year 2013, with his total earnings estimated to be USD 22 million. In October 2013, the net worth of Tendulkar was estimated at USD 160 million by Wealth X, making him India's wealthiest cricket player
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