Published: Sep 29, 2013, 12:30 PM (IST)
Edited: Sep 29, 2013, 12:30 PM (IST)
Sachin Tendulkar has scored 14 half-centuries and one ton for the Mumbai Indians across six seasons © IANS
Sachin Tendulkar has been the face of the Mumbai Indians since its inception. For six seasons he has been Mumbai’s batting mainstay. Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20) 2013 is the last assignment for Tendulkar as far as the shortest format of the game is concerned. Sarang Bhalerao takes a detailed statistical look at Tendulkar’s career in numbers for the Mumbai Indians.
It was envisaged to be young man’s game. It seemed senior members of the team had to race against the clock to improve the fitness and also come up a few shots hitherto unseen in the conventional form of cricket. A boundary meant a carnival-like atmosphere in the stands; a six ensured your entry in the list of batsmen who could turn the game on its head. Yet conventional strokeplay was effective, it made the people realise cricket needn’t be slam-bang.
Sachin Tendulkar is amongst those who have carved a niche for themselves in the Twenty20 format and he is still exploring newer ways to score runs albeit this is his final assignment with the Mumbai Indians franchise.
Tendulkar has scored a century for Mumbai Indians against Kochi Tuskers Kerala in 2010 aged 38. He has scored 14 half-centuries and one ton for Mumbai.
Let us analyse Tendulkar’s range of scores for Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and the Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20):
| Break-up | Innings | Games Mumbai Indians won | Percent win |
| Ducks | 4 | 4 | 100 |
| 1-10 | 15 | 7 | 50 |
| 11-20 | 19 | 10 | 52.63 |
| 21-30 | 13 | 5 | 38.46 |
| 31-40 | 14 | 9 | 64.28 |
| 41-50 | 8 | 5 | 62.5 |
| 51-60 | 6 | 5 | 83.33 |
| 61-70 | 4 | 2 | 50 |
| 71-80 | 3 | 3 | 100 |
| 81-90 | 1 | 1 | 100 |
| 91-100 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 88 | 51 | 57.95 |
Whenever Tendulkar scores runs between 71 and 80, Mumbai have always won. The least per cent of times Mumbai wins is when he gets scores between 21 and 30.
Break-up of his dismissals:
| Modes of dismissal | No |
| Caught others | 40 |
| Bowled | 16 |
| Leg-before | 9 |
| Run-out | 7 |
| Stumped | 3 |
| Caught and bowled | 2 |
| 77 |
Tendulkar has been dismissed caught by others the most number of times. Out of the 40 occasions when Tendulkar was dismissed in that fashion, Mumbai won on 27 of those instances. He has remained unbeaten on eight occasions and retired hurt on three instances
Breakup of runs for Tendulkar for Mumbai Indians:
| M | I | R | BF | Ave | SR | 100s | 50s | |
| Mumbai won | 51 | 51 | 1571 | 1277 | 37.4 | 123.02 | 0 | 11 |
| Mumbai lost | 37 | 37 | 1023 | 868 | 29.22 | 117.85 | 1 | 3 |
| Overall | 88 | 88 | 2594 | 2145 | 33.68 | 120.93 | 1 | 14 |
Tendulkar’s overall average for Mumbai Indians is 33.68 but it falls to 29.22 when Mumbai loses and increases by about four percentage points when Mumbai wins (37.40).
He has scored 14 half-centuries overall, 11 of them have helped Mumbai win the games.
His overall strike-rate is 120.93 which jumps up to 123.02 whenever Mumbai wins.
(Sarang Bhalerao hails from a 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)
