20 Years of Sachin: Awards and Honours

20 Years of Sachin Tendulkar
Awards and Honours

Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar in his twenty-year old career has made and broken almost all possible records, reached every known milestone and currently sits on the pinnacle of success. During his journey he was conferred various awards and honours not only for his contribution to the game but also bringing laurels to the country of a billion.




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2008: Sachin Tendulkar was conferred the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian honour.

In the same year Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar was named the best Asian One-day batsman at the inaugural Asian Cricket Council (ACC) awards.




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2006: Tendulkar was felicitated at the Castrol Cricketing Awards ceremony for going past Sunil Gavaskar's record of 34 centuries.

2005: He was given Rajiv Gandhi Award for Best Sportsman.




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2002: Sachin Tendulkar played his 100th Test at The Oval. It was the fourth Test against England. In the third Test of the series at the Leeds, Sachin surpassed Sir Donald Bradman's record of 29 Test centuries.

To laud his feat, Ferrari invited Sachin Tendulkar to its paddock in Silverstone during the 2002 British Grand Prix to receive a Ferrari 360 Modena from the legendary F1 racer Michael Schumacher






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2001: Tendulkar awarded the 'Maharashtra Bhushan' Award and the MCA felicitates Tendulkar with a silver bat in recognition to his feat of 10000 runs in Limited Overs Internationals.





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1999: Sachin Tendulkar awarded with prestigious Padmashri Award.

1997: Tendulkar became the Wisden Cricketer of the Year. In 2002, Wisden ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time, next to Sir Donald Bradman, and the second greatest ODI batsman of all time, next to Vivian Richards.

1998: Tendulkar won the Coopers and Lybrand Award for 'Player of the year'.






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1991: Sachin Tendulkar was awarded with the 'Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna' which is India's highest recognition in sports.

1994: Sachin Tendulkar was presented with the Arjuna award in 1994. Instituted in 1961, the award is given annually to honour sportsmen. The award constitutes of a cash prize of Rs 50,000, a bronze statuette of Arjuna and a scroll.





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Apart from all the mentioned awards, Sachin Tendulkar is also the proud holder of the maximum number of Man of the Match (MoM) and Man of the Series (MoS) awards in the ODIs. He won 14 MoS and 60 MoM ODI awards.

In Tests, he has won MoM awards 12 times and MoS awards 4 times.

Top 5 Highest Paid Athletes in the World

The star of Golf Tiger Woods is the sports highest earner with an annual income of two and a half times larger than his closest competitor. He was the world’s best-paid athlete last year.

Top 5 highest paid athletes are: 1. Tiger Woods 2. (Tie) Kobe Bryant 2. (Tie) Michael Jordan 2. (Tie) Kimi Raikkonen 5. David Beckham There is a tie among three competitors, so they all three stood at the 2nd position. The details of all top 5 highest athletes are as follows:

1. Tiger woods

The world’s top golfer made $110 million during the past one year. He is the best-paid sportsman for the last eight years. From 13-years of his professional golf career he has earned nearer about $900 million as prize money, appearance fees and endorsement. It is assumed that he will become the first athlete to earn $1 billion during a career. He would have earned even more this year but he had got severe knee injury for eight months, so his prize money and appearance fees were cut down.

2. Kobe Bryant

He stands at the 2nd position with his other two competitors Michael Jordan and Kimi Raikkonen and gets $45 million. He won his fourth NBA title with the Los Angeles Lakers in June. He got $21 million salary through endorsement deals with Activision, Nike, Upper Deck and VitaminWater.

3. Kimi Raikkonen

He is also at the 2nd position and earns $45 million. He won the title in the car race in 2007. He disappointed in the world championship race in the last year. Ferrari accepted Raikkonen in September to a one-year contract extension keeping the Finn behind the wheel for Ferrari till the year 2010.

4. Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan is a retired player since six years. He is still the most famous athlete in the United States and standing at 2nd position with Bryant and Raikkonen and gets $45 million. Now he is approaching $1 billion in sales for Nike which turned him to come in the marketing field. He is known in the list of potential buyers for the Charlotte Bobcats and here he is head of basketball operations and a minority owner.

5. David Beckham

He stands at the 5th position and earns $42 million. He is not as good as other players in the game then also he is most famous, so the companies like Giorgio, Armani, Motorola and Adidas give him millions of dollars for his endorsement. He is planning to play for the Los Angeles Galaxy in July after the MLS season is half over. He played for AC Milan this year and spent 5 months for them.

India's Saina Nehwal wins Indonesian Open women's singles

Saina Nehwal kisses her medal after beating China's Wang Lin in Indonesia Super Series final in Jakarta


Indian ace shuttler Saina Nehwal beat China's world number three Wang Lin to become the first Indian to win a super series badminton tournament with victory in the Indonesian Open

Nehwal took the women's singles crown by beating Wang 12-21, 21-18, 21-9 to take the title and the 18,750-dollar prize.

"This is great... I never expected to win," said Nehwal, who is ranked eighth in the world and was seeded sixth in the tournament.

Nehwal capitalised on Wang's fatigue and wavering confidence in the final set after outlasting her counterpart in the longer rallies, sealing the match with a powerful jumping smash in front of a 7,000-strong crowd.