SACHIN THE MASTER BLASTER

The most popular cricket star, who has gained heaps of applauses and awards for his marvellous performance in several Test and ODIS. He is one of the most talked about cricket stars and the only one to be compared to Sir Donald Bradman the Australian legend of cricket. If Prometheus was the one who brought down fire to earth, Sachin Tendulkar brought it to the cricket field.

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar was born in Mumbai into a middle-class  Brahmin family, and was named after his family's favourite music director Sachin Dev Burman. He went to Sharadashram Vidyamandir School where he started his cricketing career under coach Ramakant Achrekar. He made his international debut against Pakistan in 1989 at the age of sixteen, becoming India's youngest Test player.

In batting, he has reached a stage that others can only dream of. He has destroyed practically every bowling attack in the world. Tendulkar's  'specialties' include the straight drive (seemingly nobody plays the shot better than him), the cover drive, the square cut, the pullshot over midwicket/square leg, the delicate leg glance, the late cut, the lofted shots over mid-on and mid-off and not to mention the improvisations he keeps coming up with, time and again.