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Vaibhav Purandare grew up playing cricket at Shivaji Park, Mumbai, at the same time as the school-going Sachin Tendulkar was amassing loads of runs on the field. He watched helplessly as Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli walked away with a world-record partnership against his school. Purandare was taught in college by Tendulkar's father, Professor Ramesh Tendulkar, and was coached as a right-hand batsman and off-spin bowler by Tendulkar's coach, Ramakant Acharekar. He began his journalistic career in 1993 with the political newsmagazine Blitz and has since worked with India's leading newspapers like The Indian Express, The Asian Age, Mid Day, Mumbai Mirror and DNA, apart from writing for a host of other publications. His first book, The Sena Story, a history of the Hindu militant political party Shiv Sena, was published in 1999, when he was only twenty-three. He is currently Senior Associate Editor with the Hindustan Times, Mumbai.

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is regarded as one of the stalwart players and the greatest batsman in the history of cricket. A right-hand batsman, popularly known as “Little Master” or “Master Blaster”, he has managed to create a profound impact on popularizing cricket in India and garnering recognition at the International level with his talent, dedication, and hard work. In our country where cricket is considered a religion, Sachin Tendulkar is god.

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Early Life

• Sachin Tendulkar was born into a Maharashtrian family as the youngest son of Ramesh Tendulkar, a Marathi Professor, Poet, and critic, and Rajani, an employee at the Life Insurance Corporation of India. He has three siblings, namely Ajit, Nithin, and Savita Tendulkar. Sachin was named after an eminent Bollywood music composer Sachin Dev Burman. Tendulkar started playing cricket at the age of 11.
• His elder sibling, Ajit, had a profound influence on him to develop his talent in cricket. Scoring well in school matches, he scored a century in his debut match for Bombay. The world cup victory of the Indian cricket team in 1983 instilled a genuine interest and passion for cricket in Sachin Tendulkar.
•  Coach Ramakant Achrekar was instrumental in chiseling the cricketing skills of Sachin Tendulkar during the initial years of training. Sachin played his debut match against Pakistan in Karachi as the youngest International Test Cricketer at the age of 16 years in November 1989.

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Beginning of cricket career

• As a 12-year-old, Sachin scored a century in a U-17 Harris Shield encounter in 1985. Next year, Sachin was selected to play in all three junior level (U-15, U-17 and U-19) BCCI tournaments. He aspired to be a fast bowler but got rejected by Dennis Lillee’s MRF pace foundation in 1987.
• In November 1987, Sachin became the youngest to be placed on the probable list of player

Indian cricketer (born 1973)

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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (; pronounced[sətɕinteːɳɖulkəɾ]; born 24 April 1973) is an Indian former international cricketer who captained the Indian national team. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest cricketers of all time, and is the holder of several world records, including being the all-time highest run-scorer in both ODI and Testcricket, receiving the most player of the match awards in international cricket, and being the only batsman to score 100 international centuries. Tendulkar was a Member of Parliament, Rajya S