37 Favorites Of Sachin Tendulkar ( Must Read+Share)
His favourite sport besides cricket is Tennis.
In fact, he enjoyed playing Tennis more than cricket as a child.
His favourite non-cricketing sports heroes are John McEnroe and Diego Maradona.
He is a very good cook, and once cooked a brinjal curry for his teammates.
He runs a restaurant called 'Tendulkar's' in Colaba, Mumbai.
He has spent almost all his life in Mumbai suburb, Bandra.
He likes to call himself 'strictly non-vegetarian'.
He was named by his father after Sachin Dev Burman.
His favourite movie is 'Coming to America'.
His favourite restaurant is Bukhara, Maurya Sheraton.
His favourite holiday resort is Yorkshire, Headingley.
His favourite cricket ground is Sydney Cricket Ground.
His favourite hotel is 'The Park Royal Darling Harbour' in Sydney.
His favourite actress remains Madhuri Dixit.
His favourite actor remains Amitabh Bachchan.
His favourite singer is the legendary Kishore Kumar.
His favourite hobby is to collect CD's.
His favourite dish is 'crabs stuffed with spices'.
However, he equally enjoys 'a steak'.
If and when dismissed cheaply, Tendulkar likes to take out his anger somewhere and prefers to be left alone, until he cools down.
His childhood heroes were Sir Vivian Richards, Sunil Gavaskar and Sandeep Patil.
He originally wanted to be a fast bowler.
Prior to that, Tendulkar wanted to be a professional Tennis player.
His favourite band is Dire Straits.
He has kept safely, as a souvenir, the 13 one-rupee coins he received from his coach.
He considers 'Ganesh Chaturthi' as the most important day of the year.
He considers his move to Shardasharam Vidya Mandir in Dadar as 'the turning point'.
He strongly believes in the concept of rebirth, and in the existence of Heaven and Hell.
He made a special appearance in the Bollywood film "Stumped" in 2003.
His wife Anjali has never watched Tendulkar bat LIVE – only recordings.
Most memorable day – India’s victory against Pakistan in the 2003 World Cup.
Sunil Gavaskar had gifted Tendulkar a pair of pads when he was a schoolboy – the same pair of pads he wore on his Test debut four years later against Pakistan, in 1989.
Superstitious Tendulkar always puts on his left paid before his right.
Tendulkar was gifted a new Ferrari 360 Modena by Michael Schumacher in 2002.
He is ambidextrous – bats with his right hand but signs autographs and eats or plays table tennis with his left.
He was once mistaken for a girl by good friend and fellow cricketer Atul Ranade due to his long and curly hair as a teenager!
Once, he fell from a tree on a Sunday evening during a summer vacation. He had climbed up to catch a better view of a television set because the movie Guide was showing on national TV. His infuriated brother Ajit packed him off to a cricket coaching class as punishment!
