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Sachin Tendulkar
Indian cricketer
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Joe Root surpasses Alastair Cook as England's top Test run-scorer during first Test against Pakistan
• Oct. 10, 2024, 11:09 AM ET (ABC News (Australia))
Root surpasses Cook as leading England run-scorer in test cricket; Tendulkar is next big target
• Oct. 8, 2024, 11:04 PM ET (The Hindu)
STATS: Virat Kohli becomes fastest batter to reach 27,000 runs, breaks Sachin Tendulkar’s record
• Sep. 30, 2024, 2:52 AM ET (The Indian Express)
Sachin Tendulkar (born April 24, 1973, Bombay [Mumbai], India) is an Indian professional cricket player, considered by many to be one of the greatest batsmen of all time. In 2012, he became the first cricketer to score 100 centuries (100 runs in a single innings) in international play. Tendulkar was given his first bat when he was 11 years of age. As a 14-year-old, he used it to score 329 out of a world-record stand of 664 in a school match. A year later he scored a century on his first-class debut for Bombay (Mumbai), and at age 16 years ...(100 of 577 words)