Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar during the trailer launch of his biopic 'Sachin: A Billion Dreams' in Mumbai. “I never thought something like this will ever happen in my life. All I wanted to do as a child was to pick up a bat and play cricket for India and chase my dream. My dream started when I was ten years old... I wanted to win the World Cup for India and hold that trophy. And I started playing cricket and along the way, a lot of things happened in my life, but they were all real and there were no retakes.”
Tendulkar and International Cricket Council chief executive David Richardson at the launch of ICC's Cricket for Good & Team Swachh campaign in partnership with UNICEF and the Board of Control for Cricket in India in New Delhi. Tendulkar has been named the regional brand ambassador by the UNICEF to promote its Total Sanitation Campaign in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal.
Indian Super League founder and chairperson Nita Ambani along John Abraham, Sachin Tendulkar, Abhishek Bachchan, and M.S. Dhoni inaugurating the 3rd season of the football league at Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium in Guwahati in 2016. Post retirement, the cricketer has made his foray into popular sports with his ownership of Kerala Blasters in the ISL franchise. This marked the beginning of a special brand of football in the country.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar take a selfie. Tendulkar has had a terrific record against the Australians, and their fans had enormous respect for him, right from his first visit to the country as an 18 year-old
As a Goodwill Ambassador for Rio Olympics, Sachin Tendulkar acconpanied Olympics participants to Brazil. Here, he is seen taking a selfie with Olympians - shuttler P.V. Sindhu, wrestler Sakshi Malik, gymnast Dipa Karmakar and badminton coach Pullela Gopichand, before presenting them new super luxury BMW cars as a token of appreciation for their “outstanding contribution to Indian sport”, at a ceremony held in Hyderabad in 2016.
A wall painting made by an artist at Puttamraju Kandriga village, Andhra Pradesh. The dry and dusty village shot to fame two years ago when Tendulkar adopted it under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana. It is now a model village with facilities that will be the envy of any city. Even interior lanes have been concreted, every house has been connected to a drinking water pipeline and sewage grid, and the village is not just open defecation-free but is also rid of alcohol addiction.
Tendulkar signs a register after taking oath as Rajya Sabha member at Parliament House in New Delhi in 2012. The cricketer has attended 23 of the 348 days since his nomination, putting him amongst MPs with poor attendance such as actress Rekha and industrialist Anu Aga.
