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200 facts about Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar

New Delhi: At a glittering ceremony in the chandeliered hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan, cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar was conferred India's highest civilian honour the Bharat Ratna.Tendulkar, alongwith eminent scientist CNR Rao were conferred the Bharat



66. Is the only player to score Test centuries more than twenty years apart. Don Bradman's first and last three-figure scores came 19 years 7 months apart.

67. His seven centuries in 2010 are the most by an Indian batsman in a calendar year.

68. 1562 runs scored by Sachin in Test cricket in 2010 are also the most by an Indian batsman in a calendar year.

69. 12 of Sachin's Test hundreds have come after the age of 35. England's Graham Gooch remains the only other player to have done so.

70. 15 of Sachin's Test centuries came under Mohammad Azharuddin.

71. Tendulkar has the distinction of scoring most fifty-plus innings (51 centuries and 67 fifties = 118) which remains the world record for any batsman.

72. Holds the record of aggregating most runs in AWAY Tests (8705).

73. Is the first batsman to have aggregated 1,000 runs against SEVEN different countries in Test cricket. The only teams missing are Zimbabwe (918 runs) and Bangladesh (820 runs).

74. Holds the record of most runs in between two dismissals with 497 runs in 2003-04 season (spread across three Tests and five innings with the sequence of 241*, 60*,194* and 2).

75. First Indian to score 300 runs in a Test without getting dismissed.

76. Has crossed 150 on 20 occasions in Test cricket – most such instances for any batsman in Test cricket.

77. Has completed his hundred with a six on SIX occasions in Test cricket – a world record.

78. When he scored his 51st hundred, which was against South Africa at Cape Town, he became the first overseas batsman to have scored 5 centuries on South African soil. The previous highest was 4 Test centuries by Wally Hammond of England and Neil Harvey of Australia.

79. Sachin holds the record of aggregating most runs by an overseas batsman in two countries- Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

80. Became the first player to surpass the 12,000, 13,000, 14,000 & 15,000 Test run marks.

81. Tendulkar is the fastest to reach the following thousand-run marks in terms of innings: 10000 runs (195 innings- joint record holder with Brian Lara and Kumar Sangakkara), 12000 runs (247 innings - joint record holder with Ricky Ponting),13000 runs (266 innings),14000 runs (279 innings) and 15000 (300 innings).

82. Holds the unique record of having appeared in most WON (70) and most LOST (56) Tests for India.

83. Sachin has been dismissed stumped only once in Test matches. The only occasion was against England at Bangalore in 2002. Just 10 runs away from his century,Sachin got irritated by Ashley Giles' negative bowling (bowling well outside the leg stump) and wicketkeeper James Foster effected a smart stumping.

84. In 2001-02 Sachin was dismissed LBW in five consecutive innings – an Indian record