Top 10 facts about Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar the name itself is still enough to get any cricket stadium thundering. Recently the God of cricket has gathered huge new fan following after the release of his movie Sachin: A Billion Dreams. And everyone has appreciated the movie. Today we are having some of the best facts tat you probably didn’t know.

Sachin Tendulkar able to use the right and left hands equally well. He writes with his left hand but he plays with his right.

Sachin Tendulkar’s father Ramesh Tendulkar was a huge fan of music composer-singer Sachin Dev Burman. The reason why Sachin was named after SD Burman.

Sachin is a huge fan of collecting cars, perfumes, and watches. And his first car was a Maruti 800.

Once he was used to playing with a bat that was 3.2 lbs in weight.

Apart from popularity in stadiums, there is also award in Delhi’s Tihar Jail that is named after him.

At the very small age of 16, he made his Test debut against Pakistan.

Sachin Tendulkar was the first person to be awarded an honorary rank of Group Captain by the Indian Air Force.

In the early stage, he wanted to be a fast bowler. But on the advice of Australian cricketer Dennis Lillee he started to concentrate more on his batting skills.

He was the youngest Indian to play county cricket in England at the age of 19.

The former Australian cricketer once revealed that his nightmares were full of “Sachin coming, dancing down the track and lofting me over for yet another six!”

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