Sachin Tendulkar wins Laureus for Best Sporting Moment

Guwahati, February 18, 2020:

Cricket Legend Sachin Tendulkar has won the Laureus Best Sporting Moment award for Indian teams victory at the World Cup 2011 when he was carried on the shoulders by the team members.

Tendulkar won the award by securing a maximum number of votes mostly by Indian cricket fans.

After winning the trophy, Sachin Tendulkar said that the feeling of winning the world cup was beyond something which he could never express by words and the moment is something which the entire country celebrates.

Tendulkar said, "My journey started in 1983 when I was 10 years old. India had won the World Cup. I did not understand the significance, and just because everybody was celebrating, I also joined the party.

He added, "Bu somewhere, I knew something special had happened to the country, and I wanted to experience it one day. That's how my journey began. It was the proudest moment of my life, holding that trophy which I chased for 22 years, but I never lost hope. I was merely lifting that trophy on behalf of my countrymen."

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Sachin Tendulkar is regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket in the world. He is among the highest run-scorer of all time in International cricket.

Tendulkar took up cricket at the age of eleven and made his Test debut on 15 November,r 1989 against Pakistan in Karachi at the age of sixteen, and went on to represent Mumbai domestically and India internationally for close to twenty-four years.

He is the only player to have scored one hundred international centuries, the first batsman to score a double century in an ODI, the holder of the record for the most runs in both Test and ODI, and the only player to complete more than 30,000 runs in international cricket.

He is also known as Little Master or Master Blaster. In 2001, Sachin Tendulkar became the first batsman to complete 10,000 ODI runs in his 259 innings.

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The Laureus Sports awards were held in Berlin Germany on Monday.

Since 2000, Laureus Sport for Good has reached and helped change the lives of almost 6 million children and young people. Today, Laureus currently supports more than 200 programs in over 40 countries that use the power of sport to transform lives.

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