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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar was born on 24th April 1973 in
Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a former Indian cricketer and
captain, widely regarded as one of the greatest cricketers of
all time. He is the only player to have scored one hundred
international centuries, the first to score a double century in a
One Day International, and the only player to complete more
than 30,000 runs in international cricket. He played 664 international cricket
matches in total, scoring 34,357 runs. He received the Arjuna Award in1994,
the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 1997, and the Padma Shri and the
Padma Vibhushan awards in 1999 and 2008 respectively. He was awarded the
Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award on 16 November, 2013. In 2012,
Tendulkar was nominated to the Rajya Sabha. He retired from cricket on 16th
November, 2013. 'Learning the Game' is an extract from his autobiography
Playing it My Way.