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Sachin Tendulkar was born Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar on 24th April, 1973 into a middle class family of Rajpur Saraswat Brahamins in Mumbai.Named after his family’s favorite musician, Sachin Dev Burman,Sachin has three siblings; older brother Ajit (who encouraged him to play cricket) and younger Nitin and sister Savitai. In 1995, Sachin married Anjali, the paediatrician daughter of Gujrati industria list Anand Mehta. They have two children, Sara who was born on 12th October,1997 and Arjun who was born on 23rd September, 1999. Sachin was educated at Sharadashram Vidyamandir School, where he began his cricketing career under the influence of mentor and coach Ramakant Achrekar. In 1988, whilst still at school, Sachin was involved in a 600-run partnership with friend and team-mate Vinod Kambli in which his share was 320 runs.