Tendulkar was given his first bat when he was 11 years old. As a 14-year-old, he utilized it to score 329 out of a world-record remain of 664 in a school match. After a year he scored a century on his five star debut for Bombay (Mumbai), and at age 16 years 205 days he turned into India's most youthful Test (global) cricketer, making his presentation against Pakistan in Karachi in November 1989. At the point when he was 18 he scored two centuries in Australia (148 in Sydney and 114 in Perth), and in 1994 he scored 179 against the West Indies. In August 1996, at age 23, Tendulkar was made skipper of his nation's group.
Despite the fact that India was crushed in the elimination rounds of the 1996 World Cup, Tendulkar arose as the competition's top run scorer, with 523 runs. In 1998 he was picked for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, the most noteworthy honor given to an Indian competitor, for his extraordinary exhibition in the 1997-98 season. India was crushed by Australia in the 1999 World Cup, neglecting to progress past the round of six, and was sufficiently crushed by both Australia and South Africa in series soon thereafter. In the 2003 World Cup, nonetheless, Tendulkar assisted his group with progressing similar to the finals. However India was again crushed by Australia, Tendulkar, who found the middle value of 60.2, was named the man of the competition.
Tendulkar left a mark on the world in December 2005 when he scored his record-breaking 35th century in Test play against Sri Lanka. The accomplishment was refined in a sum of 125 Tests and permitted Tendulkar to outperform the productive Indian run scorer Sunil Gavaskar. In June 2007 Tendulkar arrived at another significant achievement when he turned into the primary player to record 15,000 runs in one-day worldwide (ODI) play, and in November 2011 he turned into the main batsman to score 15,000 runs in Test play. After one month he scored a memorable "twofold century" in a challenge against South Africa, turning into the primary man in history to record 200 runs in a solitary innings of ODI play. He was named the 2010 International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricketer of the Year. In an ODI match against Bangladesh in March 2012, Tendulkar scored his unparalleled 100th worldwide century-which included both Test (51 centuries) and ODI (49 centuries) play. He resigned from ODI cricket soon thereafter, and in 2013 he finished a six-year spell with the Indian Premier League (as an individual from the Mumbai Indians) and resigned from Test cricket, finishing his playing days with records for the most vocation worldwide runs (34,357) and Test runs (15,921). All through his long vocation Tendulkar was reliably positioned among the game's best batsmen. He was regularly compared to Australia's Don Bradman in his resolute commitment to scoring runs and the conviction of his strokeplay off both front and back foot.
In 2012 Tendulkar turned into an individual from the Rajya Sabha, the upper office of the Indian parliament-the main dynamic competitor to join that body; he was named to the post, and his term finished in 2018. In 2014 he turned into the principal athlete to accept India's most noteworthy regular citizen honor, the Bharat Ratna. Tendulkar was drafted into the International Cricket Council Hall of Fame in 2019.
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