Editing Sachin Tendulkar (section)

=== Continued rise ===
==== 2001–02: Mike Denness incident, Kolkata Test, and breaking Bradman's record ====
During India's 2001 tour of South Africa, in the second Test match, referee [[Mike Denness and Indian cricket team incident|Mike Denness fined four Indian players]] for excessive appealing, and fined the Indian captain [[Sourav Ganguly]] for not controlling his team.<ref>{{cite news |date=20 November 2001 |title=ICC Match Referee confirms disciplinary action for Indian cricketers |work=ESPNcricinfo |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/icc-match-referee-confirms-disciplinary-action-for-indian-cricketers-108120 |access-date=1 June 2008}}</ref> Denness suspended Tendulkar from one match for alleged [[ball tampering]]. Television cameras captured images that suggested Tendulkar may have been involved in cleaning the seam of the cricket ball.<ref>{{cite news |date=19 November 2001 |title=Tendulkar appears before match referee |work=ESPNcricinfo |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/tendulkar-appears-before-match-referee-108088 |url-status=live |access-date=1 June 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120625025110/http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/108088.html |archive-date=25 June 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=19 November 2001 |title=Tendulkar handed suspended ban |work=ESPNcricinfo |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/tendulkar-handed-suspended-ban-108107 |url-status=live |access-date=1 June 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126165955/http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/108107.html |archive-date=26 November 2010}}</ref> The incident escalated to include sports journalists accusing Denness of racism,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/in_depth/2001/india_in_south_africa/1668275.stm |title=Indian media fury over Tendulkar |work=BBC News |access-date=1 June 2008 |date=21 November 2001 |location=London |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219190102/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/in_depth/2001/india_in_south_africa/1668275.stm |archive-date=19 December 2008 }}</ref> and led to Denness being barred from entering the venue of the third Test match. The ICC revoked the status of the match as a Test as the teams rejected the appointed referee.<ref>{{cite news |date=23 November 2001 |title=ICC sets out latest position regarding South Africa v India |work=ESPNcricinfo |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/icc-sets-out-latest-position-regarding-south-africa-v-india-108243 |url-status=live |access-date=31 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111165610/http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/108243.html |archive-date=11 November 2012}}</ref> The charges against Tendulkar triggered a massive backlash from the Indian public.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/in_depth/2001/india_in_south_africa/1666063.stm |title=Indians cry foul |work=BBC News |access-date=1 June 2008 |date=20 November 2001 |location=London |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080214221523/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/in_depth/2001/india_in_south_africa/1666063.stm |archive-date=14 February 2008 }}</ref>

On the final day of the [[Second Test, 2000–01 Border–Gavaskar Trophy|Kolkata Test against Australia in 2001]], Tendulkar took three wickets, including the key wickets of [[Matthew Hayden]] and [[Adam Gilchrist]], who were centurions in the previous Test. His three wickets haul helped India win the match.<ref>{{cite web|title=2nd Test: India v Australia at Kolkata, Mar 11–15, 2001 {{pipe}} Cricket Scorecard {{pipe}} ESPNcricinfo |work=Cricinfo |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/current/match/63920.html |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=18 December 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204222853/http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/current/match/63920.html |archive-date=4 December 2013 }}</ref> In the five-match ODI series that followed, he took his 100th wicket in ODIs, claiming the wicket of then Australian captain [[Steve Waugh]] in the final match at the [[Fatorda Stadium]] in [[Goa]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Of Tendulkar and his Goa milestone |first=Niraj |last=Prabhu |newspaper=[[The Goan]] |page=28 |date=16 November 2013 |access-date=27 March 2013 |url=http://epaper.thegoan.net/185353/The-Goan-on-Saturday/November-16-2013#page/27/2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131121011326/http://epaper.thegoan.net/185353/The-Goan-on-Saturday/November-16-2013#page/27/2 |archive-date=21 November 2013 }}</ref>

In the 2002 series in the West Indies, Tendulkar started well, scoring 79 in the first Test. In the second Test at Port of Spain, Sachin Tendulkar scored 117 in the first innings, his 29th Test century in his 93rd Test match, to equal [[Donald Bradman]]'s record of 29 Test hundreds. He was gifted a Ferrari 360 Modena by Fiat through [[Michael Schumacher]] for achieving this feat.<ref>{{cite news |date=19 April 2002 |title=Tendulkar equals Sir Donald Bradman's record at Port of Spain |work=ESPNcricinfo |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/tendulkar-equals-sir-donald-bradman-s-record-at-port-of-spain-111261 |url-status=live |access-date=8 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113133421/http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/111261.html |archive-date=13 November 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/specials/west_indies_v_india/1939723.stm |title=Sachin equals The Don |publisher=BBC |access-date=20 April 2002 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021020093730/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/specials/west_indies_v_india/1939723.stm |archive-date=20 October 2002 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://sports.in.msn.com/gallery/twenty-of-tendulkar%E2%80%99s-best-test-hundreds?page=2 |title=Sachin equals Bradman's record – Twenty of Tendulkar's best Test hundreds |publisher=MSN |date=27 April 2012 |access-date=8 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021135317/http://sports.in.msn.com/gallery/twenty-of-tendulkar%E2%80%99s-best-test-hundreds?page=2 |archive-date=21 October 2013 }}</ref>

Then, in an unprecedented sequence, he scored just 0, 0, 8, and 0 in the next four innings.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/1009335.html |title=Swinging 60 |work=Cricinfo |date=7 May 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508114819/http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/1009335.html |archive-date=8 May 2016 }}</ref> He returned to form in the last Test scoring 41 and 86, one half century. However, India lost the series.<ref>{{cite web|title=5th Test: West Indies v India at Kingston, May 18–22, 2002 {{pipe}} Cricket Scorecard {{pipe}} ESPNcricinfo |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/63988.html |work=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=29 March 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140621133218/http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/63988.html |archive-date=21 June 2014 }}</ref> In this period, in the third Test match against England in August 2002, Tendulkar scored his 30th Test century to surpass Bradman's haul, in his 99th Test match.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2002/sep/stats.htm |title=A special rediff section celebrating Sachin Tendulkar's 100th Test |work=Rediff.com |access-date=8 November 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101022236/http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2002/sep/stats.htm |archive-date=1 November 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|agency=Reuters |url=http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=14082 |title=Sachin outdoes Bradman with 30th Test hundred – Express India |work=[[The Indian Express]] |date=23 August 2002 |access-date=8 November 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021104958/http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=14082 |archive-date=21 October 2013 }}</ref>

==== 2003: Cricket World Cup ====
Tendulkar made 673 runs in 11 matches in the [[2003 Cricket World Cup]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Sachin Tendulkar produced 673 runs and 2 wicket in 2003 world cup without net practice, reveals Rahul Dravid |url=http://www.patrika.com/news/sachin-tendulkar-produced-673-runs-in-2003-world-cup-without-net-practice-revea/1021947 |access-date=5 August 2014 |work=Patrika Group |issue=5 August 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140808035351/http://www.patrika.com/news/sachin-tendulkar-produced-673-runs-in-2003-world-cup-without-net-practice-revea/1021947 |archive-date=8 August 2014 }}</ref> helping India reach the final. While Australia won, Tendulkar was given the Man of the Tournament award.<ref name="WorldCup2003">{{cite web |title=Sachin Tendulkar Timeline: 1989 to 2013 |work=IBNLive |date=10 October 2013 |url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/cricketnext/sachin-tendulkar-timeline-1989-to-2013/427634-78.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131227204834/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/cricketnext/sachin-tendulkar-timeline-1989-to-2013/427634-78.html |archive-date=27 December 2013 |access-date=22 December 2013 |publisher=IBN |quote=Makes 673 runs in 11 matches in the ICC World Cup – ... wins him the player of the tournament award}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Sachin received the Man of the Tournament award |url=http://www.rediff.com/wc2003/2003/mar/22ten1.htm |publisher=Rediff |access-date=18 December 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219042308/http://www.rediff.com/wc2003/2003/mar/22ten1.htm |archive-date=19 December 2013 }}</ref>

He continued to score heavily in ODI cricket that year, with two hundreds in a tri-series involving New Zealand and Australia.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2003/10/27/stories/2003102707302100.htm |title=India tames the Aussies |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |first=Vijay |last=Lokapally |access-date=29 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050930213842/http://www.hindu.com/2003/10/27/stories/2003102707302100.htm |archive-date=30 September 2005 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1031116/asp/sports/story_2577782.asp |title=Sachin, Sehwag demolish NZ |newspaper=[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)|The Telegraph]] |first=Atreyo |last=Mukhopadhyay |date=15 November 2003 |location=Hyderabad |access-date=29 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140329215836/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1031116/asp/sports/story_2577782.asp |archive-date=29 March 2014 }}</ref> As a part-time bowler, he dismissed an exhausted centurion, Matthew Hayden, in the tri-series final.<ref>{{Cite AV media| author= cricket.com.au | orig-date= 2003 | date= 2015 | via= Youtube|title=From the Vault: Hayden too big, too strong|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0W7AkakdUQ|language=en|access-date=1 January 2023}}</ref>

==== 2003–04: Tour of Australia ====
The drawn series as [[Indian cricket team in Australia in 2003–04|India toured Australia in 2003–04]] saw Tendulkar making his mark in the last Test of the series, scoring 241 not out from 436 balls with 33 fours at a strike rate of 55.27 in [[Sydney Cricket Ground|Sydney]], putting India in a virtually unbeatable position. He spent 613 minutes at the crease during the innings. He followed this up with an unbeaten 60 in the second innings of the Test.<ref>{{cite web|title=4th Test: Australia v India at Sydney, Jan 2–6, 2004 {{pipe}} Cricket Scorecard {{pipe}} ESPNcricinfo |work=Cricinfo |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/current/match/64062.html |publisher=ESPN |access-date=18 December 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131205094319/http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/current/match/64062.html |archive-date=5 December 2013 }}</ref> Prior to this Test match, he had had an unusually horrible run of form, failing in all six innings in the preceding three Tests.{{citation needed|date=March 2014}} It was no aberration that 2003 was his worst year in Test cricket, with an average of 17.00 and just one fifty.<ref>{{cite web|title=Batting records {{!}} Test matches {{!}} ESPNcricinfo Statsguru |url=https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/35320.html?class=1;spanmax1=31+dec+2003;spanmin1=1+jan+2003;spanval1=span;template=results;type=batting|access-date=16 September 2020|work=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref>

Tendulkar scored an unbeaten 194 against Pakistan at [[Multan]] in the following series. Indian captain Rahul Dravid declared before Tendulkar reached 200; had he done so it would have been the fourth time he had passed the landmark in Tests.<ref>{{cite news |date=29 March 2004 |title=India high on Sehwag's 309 |work=ESPNcricinfo |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/india-high-on-sehwag-s-309-140466 |url-status=live |access-date=30 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110214002448/http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/140466.html |archive-date=14 February 2011}}</ref> Tendulkar said that he was disappointed and that the declaration had taken him by surprise.<ref>{{cite news |date=29 March 2004 |title='I was taken by surprise': Tendulkar |work=ESPNcricinfo |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/i-was-taken-by-surprise-tendulkar-140482 |url-status=live |access-date=1 June 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111115023036/http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/140482.html |archive-date=15 November 2011}}</ref> Many former cricketers commented that Dravid's declaration was in bad taste.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2004/mar/30miandad.htm |title='Don't worry, Sachin': Miandad |publisher=Rediff |access-date=1 June 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080618012945/http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2004/mar/30miandad.htm |archive-date=18 June 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2004/mar/30alam.htm |title='Declaration in bad taste': Intikhab Alam |publisher=Rediff |access-date=1 June 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080229085501/http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2004/mar/30alam.htm |archive-date=29 February 2008 }}</ref> After the match, which India won, Dravid said that the matter had been discussed internally and put to rest.<ref>{{cite news |date=April 2004 |title='The boys can be justifiably proud': Dravid |work=ESPNcricinfo |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/the-boys-can-be-justifiably-proud-dravid-134068 |url-status=live |access-date=1 June 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206005839/http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/134068.html |archive-date=6 December 2010}}</ref>

A [[tennis elbow]] injury then took its toll on Tendulkar, leaving him out of the side for most of the year, coming back only for the last two Tests when [[Australian cricket team|Australia]] toured India in 2004.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sachin's Tennis Elbow Injury |url=http://sports.ndtv.com/cricket/sachin/news/217090-sachin-tendulkar-reveals-his-tired-body-told-him-it-was-time-to-quit |publisher=NDTV |access-date=18 December 2013 |quote=In 2004, Tendulkar was diagnosed with tennis elbow, an injury that prevented him from lifting a cricket bat for almost 4 and half months. |author=NDTVCricket |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131123004842/http://sports.ndtv.com/cricket/sachin/news/217090-sachin-tendulkar-reveals-his-tired-body-told-him-it-was-time-to-quit |archive-date=23 November 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Weaver |first=Paul |date=20 February 2006 |title=Wisden – India v Australia |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/238049.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140621133212/http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/238049.html |archive-date=21 June 2014 |access-date=29 March 2014 |work=ESPNcricinfo |quote=As Australia prepared ..., even the return of Tendulkar, who had been out of cricket for two months with tennis elbow, was overshadowed ...}}</ref> He played a part in India's victory in Mumbai in that series with a fast 55, though Australia took the series 2–1.<ref>{{cite web |author=ESPNcricinfo staff |date=5 November 2004 |title=Damp start to the Mumbai Test |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/australia-tour-of-india-2004-05-61430/india-vs-australia-4th-test-64102/match-report |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140531090624/http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/story/141435.html |archive-date=31 May 2014 |access-date=29 March 2014 |work=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref>