Sachin Tendulkar played his last Ranji Trophy game for Mumbai. In 38 games, he has scored 18 centuries and 19 half-centuries at a whopping average in excess of 85. Sarang Bhalerao takes a look at the magical Tendulkar in numbers. Sachin Tendulkar remained unbeaten on 79 and helped Mumbai beat Haryana by four wickets in Lahli. This was his fourth fifty in the fourth innings of a Ranji Trophy game. He now averages a whopping 134.33 in the fourth innings of the Ranji Trophy. Here’s Tendulkar’s innings-wise analysis in the Ranji Trophy:
I
R
Ave
Hs
100s
50s
1st innings
17
1,299
72.43
140
7
7
2nd innings
21
1,723
83.42
233*
7
5
3rd innings
11
856
77.81
151
4
3
4th innings
8
403
134.33
97
0
4
Total
57
4,281
87.36
233*
18
19
This is Tendulkar’s 25th Ranji Trophy season. He has scored 18 tons and 19 half-centuries in 57 innings — an amazing conversion rate of 48 per cent whenever he goes past 50. His overall probability of getting a century is 31 per cent. Break-up of Tendulkar’s runs in the Ranji Trophy games
M
I
R
Ave
Hs
100s
50s
1988/89
7
11
583
64.77
100*
1
6
1990/91
4
7
577
82.42
125
1
5
1993/94
4
5
293
73.25
138
1
2
1994/95
5
7
856
122.28
175
5
1
1995/96
3
5
300
75
151
1
1
1997/98
3
3
407
135.66
177
2
1
1998/99
1
1
35
35
35
-
-
1999/00
2
4
427
213.5
233*
2
1
2000/01
1
2
113
56.5
108
1
-
2006/07
1
2
148
74
108
1
-
2008/09
2
3
126
63
122
1
-
2012/13
4
5
332
66.4
137
2
1
2013/14
1
2
84
84
79*
-
1
Total
38
57
4,281
87.36
233*
18
19
In the year 1994, Tendulkar played seven innings and scored five centuries during this period including 100 in each innings (140 and 139) in the final against Punjab at the Wankhede Stadium. His highest score in that season was 175 against Baroda at the RCF Stadium, Mumbai. He recorded an average of 135.66 in the 1997-98 season, where in the three innings, Tendulkar scored two centuries and one fifty. In 1999-00, Tendulkar registered his highest Ranji Trophy score of an unbeaten 233 against Tamil Nadu at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk. The highlight of the innings was that Mumbai were 43 runs behind when the eighth wicket fell. Tendulkar scored all the runs himself shielding the No 10 and 11 and punched the air when Mumbai overhauled Tamil Nadu’s first innings total. A look at the modes of dismissals for the Little Master in the Ranji Trophy:
Modes of dismissal
No
Caught others
39
Leg Before
5
Bowled
3
Caught and bowled
1
Run Out
1
Tendulkar has been out bowled only thrice. Atul Wassan of Delhi (1991), Murtaza Vohara of Baroda (2012) and Mohit Sharma (2013) have knocked over Tendulkar. He had scored 125, 108 and five in these games respectively. Venkatapathy Raju (Hyderabad), Gopal Sharma (Uttar Pradesh), Atul Wassan (Delhi) and Saurahish Lahiri (Bengal) are the only four bowlers to have dismissed Tendulkar in both the innings of the Ranji Trophy. Tendulkar was involved in only one loss for Mumbai in 38 games. It was in the 1991 Ranji Trophy final against Haryana. Mumbai lost the game by two runs. He has been part of 23 wins and 14 draws. (Sarang Bhalerao hails from family of doctors, but did his engineering. He then dumped a career in IT with Infosys to follow his heart and passion and became a writer with CricketCountry. A voracious reader, Sarang aspires to beat Google with his knowledge of the game! You can follow him on Twitter here)
