Sachin Tendulkar vs Maria Sharapova: What numbers say

Indian cricket fans are outraged. Thanks to the sheer numbers involved, the tweets and Facebook retorts are now the story itself.

The story so far: Sachin Tendulkar all-time cricket great of, was among a star-studded crowd that watched Sharapova at Wimbledon last Saturday.

When asked if she recognised the recently retired batsman, seated next to former English cricket captain Andrew Strauss and football star David Beckham, she reportedly replied that she did not.

The Indian cricket fans went mental – leaving thousands of angry messages on Maria Sharapova's Facebook page after she admitted to not recognising cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar.

So how do the two compare on some vital stats…

Sachin vs Sharapova factfile

Facebook

Sharapova: 13,804,545 likes

Pic: Twitter @MariaSharapova

Sachin: 20,257,150 likes

Twitter

Sharapova: 1.13 million followers

Sachin: 4.4 million followers

Pic: Twitter @sachin_rt

Instagram

Sharapova: 75,358 Instagram followers

Sachin: No account

The Money

Maria Sharapova

According to Forbes’ latest richest sports stars rankings, Sharapova ranks 34th in the world with an estimated fortune of $24.4 million.

Sachin Tendulkar

Forbes puts Sachib, who is now retired, at having salary/winnings of $4 million and endoresements bringing him $18 million. Sachin was at 51st on Forbes Highest-Paid Athletes list in 2013.

Where it matters

Maria Sharapova (WTA)

Career record 540–128
Highest ranking No 1
Current ranking No 5

Grand Slam Singles Titles
Australian Open (2008)
French Open (2012, 2014)
Wimbledon (2004)
US Open (2006)
Olympic Games: Silver medal (2012)

Sachin Tendulkar (Cricket)

-    He is the leading run scorer in Tests, with 15,921 runs, as well as in One-Day Internationals, with 18,426 runs

-    He is the only player to score more than 30,000 runs in all forms of international cricket (Tests, ODIs and Twenty20 Internationals).

-    He also holds the record of the highest number of centuries in both Tests (51) and ODIs (49) as well as in Tests and ODIs combined (100). On 16 March 2012, Tendulkar scored his 100th international hundred.

-    He is also the only player to score fifty centuries in Test cricket, and the first to score fifty centuries in all international cricket combined. He also holds the world record for playing the highest number of Test matches (200) and ODI matches (463).

-    A World Cup winner in 2011. Tendulkar was the highest run scorer of the 1996 Cricket World Cup with a total of 523 runs and also of the 2003 Cricket World Cup with 673 runs. In 2011 he became the player to hit most number of centuries in Cricket World Cups with six centuries and the first player to score 2,000 runs in World Cup cricket. Source: Wikipedia

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