Awards

 

Official Awards

• 1994: Arjuna Award Receipient for achievements in Cricket 
• 1997: Tendulkar was one of the five cricketers selected as Wisden Cricketer of the Year
• 1997/98: India's highest sporting honour - Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna 
• 1999: Padma Shri - India's fourth highest civilian award 
• 2008: Padma Vibhushan - India's second highest civilian award

 Media Awards

• In August 2003, Sachin Tendulkar was voted as the "Greatest Sportsman" of the country in the sport personalities category in the Best of India poll conducted by Zee News.

• In November 2006, Time magazine named Tendulkar as one of the Asian Heroes.

• In December 2006, he was named "Sports person of the Year"

• The current India Poised campaign run by The Times of India has nominated him as the Face of New India next to the likes of Amartya Sen and Mahatma Gandhi among others.

• In February 2010, Sachin Tendulkar was declared "Sports Icon of the Year for 21 years" by NDTV at the NDTV Indian of the Year Awards.