Sachin Tendulkar
Chronology
| 1973 | Born April 24 in Bombay (now Mumbai), India |
| 1975 | At age 2 1/2, begins hitting ball with a broomstick in his backyard |
| 1983 | Watches World Cup cricket match on television and becomes seriously interested in the game |
| 1986 | Scores his first century (100 runs) in his school, at age 13 |
| 1987 | Is invited by captain of Indian team to a net session with the team |
| 1988 | With friend Vinod Kambli, sets world record of 664 runs for Shardashram School at inter-school tournament; at age 15, scores 100no (not out) in his first-class debut for Bombay team |
| 1989 | Scores 103no at one-day debut for Bombay team |
| 1989-90 | At age 16, is selected to play for India against Pakistan, making his international debut in One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and Test matches. On a tour of New Zealand, scores 88, just short of being the youngest century-maker in a test match |
| 1990 | Tours England and scores 119 in a match, making him the second-youngest test century-maker |
| 1995 | Signs first contract with WorldTel, for five-year commercial endorsements and marketing deal that will make him the world's richest cricket player |
| 1996 | Is appointed captain of Indian team—will serve until early 1998 |
| 1997 | Daughter, Sarah, is born to Tendulkar and wife, Anjali, in October |
| 1998 | Makes 155 runs against Australia in Madras (now Chennai), India; meets 90-year-old Australian cricket master Sir Donald Bradman |
| 1999 | Begins having back pain in January—doctors later determine scar tissue in his lower vertebrae had become inflamed, but problem can be quickly corrected; bats in India's first World Cup match, against South Africa; flies home from match in England when father dies of cardiac arrest in mid-May; is again named captain of Indian team, in July; second child, a son, is born September 23 |
| 2001 | Is invited to Bradman's 92nd birthday party, shortly before his death at 92; becomes first batsman to score 10,000 runs in one-day cricket, setting this record in third game of five-match series against Australia on March 31; re-signs with WorldTel; in November, is accused of tampering with cricket ball at match in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and fined |
| 2002 | Pulls out of seven-match India-West Indies series with hamstring injuries; makes his thirtieth Test century, one more than Bradman; at end of November ranks third in international Test ratings, with 856 points and 58.46 average |
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