Sachin Tendulkar named Wisden’s Leading Cricketer in the World for the year 2010

Wisden, regarded as the Bible of cricket on 13 April 2011 named Sachin Tendulkar as Wisden’s Leading Cricketer in the World for the year 2010. He became the seventh recipient of the award since the inception of the award in 2004. Tendulkar added to his credit more than 1500 Test runs and seven Test hundreds, including an unparalleled 50th overall in the year 2010. In February 2010 he became the first in world cricket to score double hundred in one-dayers and in December 2010 he became the first man to score 50 Test tons, both landmarks achieved against the best pace attack - South Africa.

The Indian batsman is the seventh recipient of the Wisden award. The other iconic cricketers to have won the award are- Virender Sehwag, Australians Ricky Ponting and Shane Warne, England's Andrew Flintoff, Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan and South African Jacques Kallis.

Unlike the winners of Wisden’s coveted five cricketers of the year, it is possible to be named the world’s best in the almanack more than once. India’s Virender Sehwag took the honour in each of the last two years.

The 148th edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack was launched on 13 April 2011 and it was the first time Tendulkar won the award since it started in 2004. In 2007, Wisden had identified Tendulkar as the player to have won such an award for 1998 had it been instituted then. Thus technically Sachin has been named Wisden’s leading cricketer in the world for the second time, the first time being in 1998.