Childhood of the little master

         

    The little master Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar was born on April 24, 1973 in Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India. He began his cricketing career under his coach Ramakant in Shradashram Vidyamandir High School, Mumbai.

During his school life he starts to train as a fast bowler. But he is very interested to establish himself as a batsman. As a young Tendulkar would practice for hours at the net and was driven hard by his coach Ramakant.

In his school life, his extra ordinary batting skills got noticed by the sports circuit. Then people felt that he would soon become one of the greats in cricket world.

In 1988 season, he scored a century in every inning that he played. And in 1988 the inter school matches he had an unbroken 664 run partnership with his friend and team mate Vinod Kambli.

When he was 14 years old, a great Indian batsman of that time Sunil Gavaskar gave him a pair of his own light pads. This touching gesture greatly encouraged the budding cricketer, who 20 years later broke Gavaskar’s  world record of 34 Test Centuries.