Genius with the bat. Lost with the armband.
He captained India twice. He walked away both times. He sat in Parliament for six years and showed up 23 days. Same chart, opposite ends.
Debut at 16. Written off at 33.
The line is his standing in Indian cricket. The bar underneath is which planet was running his life at the time — Vedic astrology splits a life into long stretches, each one handed to a different planet. You get them in a fixed order, and the length of each is fixed too.
They sent a schoolboy to Pakistan.
- Took a bouncer flush in the face at Sialkot. Bleeding, he waved off the physio and carried on batting.
- The photo of that innings did more for his legend than the score did.
He restarted a match a sandstorm had stopped.
- A desert sandstorm halted play against Australia. When it cleared, he took the target apart to get India into the final.
- Then did it again in the final, on his 25th birthday. Shane Warne later said he was having nightmares about it.
His own crowd booed him.
- Tennis elbow, then surgery. He couldn't lift a bat for months and the runs stopped when he came back.
- At the Wankhede — his home ground, his city — the crowd jeered him off. He was 33 and the obituaries were already written.
Sixth World Cup. Finally.
- Twenty-two years after the debut, at 37, in Mumbai. Virat Kohli's line afterwards was that he had carried Indian cricket for 21 years, so it was time the team carried him.
- A year earlier he had made the first double century in one-day international history — at 36, in the era everyone had declared over.
One honest note on the dates: we don't have a confirmed birth time for him, and that shifts these stretches by a couple of years either way. The order never changes, so we've written them as eras, not exact dates. More on this in Lesson 06.
Everything you're actually here for
He is the closest thing India has to a secular saint, which makes it easy to forget he spent a decade getting shouted at. All of this is on the public record.
South Africa, 2001. Cameras caught him working on the ball's seam. Match referee Mike Denness handed him a suspended ban — not for tampering, but for cleaning the seam without telling the umpires.
India read it as an accusation of cheating and lost it. Effigies of Denness were burnt in the streets, Parliament discussed it, and the boards eventually played the next Test without him. The ICC cleared Sachin of tampering and kept only the lesser charge.
He had just entered his Rahu stretch. Rahu's whole subject is reputation — how the crowd sees you, and how fast that can flip.
It is the one stretch where a man who had never been accused of anything found himself accused of the worst thing in cricket.
Fiat gifted him a Ferrari 360 Modena after he passed Bradman's 29 Test hundreds. The import duty was about $245,000 on a $163,000 car — and the government waived it.
To do it they amended the Customs Act in May 2003, handing themselves the power to grant case-by-case exemptions. For a man whose public standing was untouchable, the backlash was startling.
Venus sits with his exalted Sun. Venus is luxury and gifts; the Sun is status and the state. Things arriving because of who you are.
The chart doesn't say whether that's fair. It says the theme is there.
Nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 2012. Over the period counted, he attended 23 of 348 sitting days and asked 22 questions.
MP Naresh Agarwal publicly asked him and Rekha to resign. He served the full six years and never really answered the criticism.
This is the Mercury problem, and Mercury is in its weakest possible sign in his chart. Mercury runs speech, debate, committees, paperwork — a parliamentarian's entire job.
The same placement that made him awkward at a microphone for twenty-four years.
The most persistent stick used to beat him: a stat, passed around endlessly, about how often India lost matches in which he made a hundred. It followed him for most of his career.
Then the 100th international hundred took over a year to arrive. Every innings became a countdown, the mockery got louder, and when it finally came — against Bangladesh — India lost the match.
Peak Rahu. Rahu magnifies the thing you're already known for until it stops being a joy and becomes a number you're trapped inside.
An exalted Sun collects records. It does not promise they'll make you happy.
Twice he had every reason to stop
He buried his father and flew back to bat
- May 1999, mid-World Cup in England. His father died. He flew home to Mumbai for the funeral.
- He flew straight back and scored 140 not out against Kenya in the next match.
- He took his helmet off and looked up at the sky. It is still the image most Indians reach for when they think about him.
🔭 The chart bit: the closing stretch of his Mars era — the planet of pure will, sitting in its strongest sign in his chart.
Done at 33, double century at 37
- 2004–2006: tennis elbow, surgery, months without lifting a bat, and a home crowd that jeered him.
- 2010: the first double hundred in one-day international history. He was 36 and nobody had managed it in forty years of the format.
- 2011: the World Cup, on the sixth attempt, at 37. Then 2013 — retirement, and the Bharat Ratna, the youngest recipient ever and the first sportsperson.
🔭 The chart bit: all of it inside one Rahu stretch. Same planet for the collapse and the comeback — which is exactly the point we keep making.
Four planets. Four receipts.
strongest spot
The record machine
- The Sun runs status, authority, and the urge to be counted. In Aries it is as strong as it gets.
- 100 international hundreds. 664 international matches. Nobody else is near either number, and it's been over a decade.
- Bharat Ratna at 40 — youngest ever, first sportsperson. That's the Sun's department: official, permanent recognition.
strongest spot
The one who took attacks apart
- Mars is aggression and physical will. Capricorn makes it disciplined instead of wild — controlled violence, on a schedule.
- Sharjah 1998 is the exhibit. So is walking at fast bowling at 16 with blood on his face.
- He was so short that bowlers thought the bounce would finish him. It's a fair guess they were the ones who ended up rearranging their fields.
weakest spot
Never the guy with the mic
- Mercury runs speech, argument, negotiation, admin. In Pisces it's at its weakest — feeling comes easily, precise words don't.
- Twenty-four years of press conferences and almost no memorable quotes. That is genuinely unusual for someone that famous.
- Six years in Parliament, 23 days attended. The job was Mercury's, top to bottom.
weakest spot
The captain who wasn't
- Jupiter runs judgement, counsel, and leading other people. Capricorn is its weakest sign.
- He captained India twice. Both stints went badly and he resigned both times, the second time saying he'd never do it again. He didn't.
- The best batsman of his generation was, by his own account, not the man to lead it. The chart said that before the selectors did.
Beyond the cricket
Rejected as a bowler
He applied to the MRF Pace Foundation as a teenager wanting to be a fast bowler. Dennis Lillee told him to forget it and focus on batting.
Mars wanted pace. Sun had other plans.Youngest Bharat Ratna
India's highest civilian honour, at 40. First sportsperson ever to get it.
Exalted Sun. Official, permanent, on the record.664 games, one superstition
He famously put his left pad on first, every single innings, for twenty-four years.
Saturn in Taurus — routine as a load-bearing wall.He never finished school
He left formal education early to play. Decades later he sat in the upper house of Parliament.
Weak Mercury, strong Sun. Status without the paperwork.The kundli people look for next
Nearly everyone who finishes this page goes looking for one of the players his career kept getting measured against. Virat Kohli is the first stop — the man who spent a decade being called the next him, and whose chart runs on almost the opposite fuel. MS Dhoni is the other half of the comparison this page keeps making: Sachin's Jupiter, the planet of command and counsel, sits in its weakest sign, and Dhoni built exactly the captaincy record Sachin twice walked away from. Yuvraj Singh was player of the tournament at the 2011 World Cup — the trophy Sachin had waited twenty-two years for — and Rohit Sharma inherited both the Mumbai batting lineage and, eventually, the opening slot.
The other big cluster of searches is his family, and that is where we stop. Arjun Tendulkar and Sara Tendulkar get looked up constantly alongside their father, and neither has a birth time in the public record we would be willing to compute from — so those pages sit unbuilt rather than guessed at. Anjali Tendulkar's birth details aren't public at all, so there is nothing honest to put on a page. It's the same standard we've held ourselves to about Sachin's own chart the whole way down.
The chart, raw
This is his janam kundli, computed from his birth date and place with the same engine that runs our paid reports — not copied off another site. Signs only. Here's why that matters, in Lesson 06.
Look at the Capricorn box, bottom left of the middle row. His strongest planet and one of his weakest are sitting in it together. Capricorn is the best sign Mars can be in and the worst sign Jupiter can be in. That one box is the whole page in miniature.
Astrology, but make it make sense
Zero background needed. Read this once and you can decode the chart above yourself — no astrologer required.
What a birth chart even is
It's a photo of the sky from the exact spot and second you were born. Where each planet was sitting, frozen.
Vedic astrology says that snapshot describes the raw material you were handed — not your fate, your starting kit.
The planets, and what each one does
Nine of them. Think of them as nine departments, each running one part of a life.
| Planet | Runs | Where his is |
|---|---|---|
| ☉ Sun | ego, authority, the self | Aries ★ strongest |
| ☾ Moon | mind, instinct, the public | Sagittarius |
| ♂ Mars | drive, aggression, courage | Capricorn ★ strongest |
| ☿ Mercury | speech, logic, paperwork | Pisces ↓ weakest |
| ♃ Jupiter | growth, luck, judgement | Capricorn ↓ weakest |
| ♀ Venus | fame, charm, love | Aries |
| ♄ Saturn | patience, grind, delays | Taurus |
| ☊ Rahu | obsession, hunger, reputation | Sagittarius |
| ☋ Ketu | letting go, detachment | Gemini |
Why "which sign" actually matters
Every planet has signs where it's comfortable and signs where it struggles. Same planet, wildly different output.
- Exalted (★) — its best possible sign. The department runs at full power.
- Debilitated (↓) — its worst. The department still exists, it just runs badly.
- Everywhere else — somewhere in between, and most planets in most charts sit here.
Dashas — why timing is the whole game
This is the bit most people have never heard of, and it's the part that actually does the work.
Your life gets split into long stretches, and each stretch is run by one planet. The order is fixed, the lengths are fixed, and the whole thing is decided by exactly where the Moon was when you were born. The technical name is dasha.
Moon → Mars (roughly the 90s) → Rahu (roughly 1997–2016) → Jupiter (since then)
The Mars stretch is Sharjah and the peak destroyer years. The Rahu stretch is everything after — the captaincy, the accusations, the tennis elbow, the double century, the World Cup, the retirement, the Bharat Ratna.
Sub-periods — the chapters inside the chapter
A stretch that runs sixteen or eighteen years is too blunt to be useful, so each one is divided again into sub-periods, each handed to a different planet. That's how astrologers get from "this decade" down to "this year".
What we genuinely can't tell you
Here's where most celebrity astrology sites quietly cheat, and we'd rather not.
A chart has two halves. The signs — which we have, and which barely move across a whole day. And the houses, which need the exact minute of birth, because the rising sign changes roughly every two hours.
We do not have a verified birth time for Sachin Tendulkar. The best-sourced one traces to an interview with the doctor who delivered him, with a photo of the hospital register — but the time column isn't visible in the photo, and a second time circulates on other sites.
So — is Sachin Tendulkar manglik?
The most-asked astrology question about almost any famous Indian, and the honest answer is uncomfortable.
Being manglik depends entirely on which house Mars sits in — the 1st, 4th, 7th, 8th or 12th. Houses need the birth minute. We don't have his.
How to actually read that chart square
The grid earlier on this page is a South-Indian chart, and it's the easiest of the three styles to learn because the signs never move.
Twelve boxes around the edge, one per zodiac sign, always in the same places. Pisces top-left, then clockwise: Aries, Taurus, Gemini down the right, and so on. Memorise the ring once and you can read any South-Indian chart for the rest of your life.
The planet symbols get written into whichever box they were in. That's the whole trick — a chart is just nine symbols dropped into twelve fixed boxes.
Aspects — planets shouting across the chart
A planet doesn't only affect the box it sits in. It also throws its influence at other boxes from a distance. Astrologers call this an aspect, and it's why a planet can matter for an area of life it isn't sitting in.
The basic rule: every planet aspects the box directly opposite it — seven signs away. Mars, Jupiter and Saturn each get extra reach on top of that.
Why you should care: it's the usual answer to "but that planet isn't even in my career box, so why does it keep coming up?" It's shouting from across the room.
Retrograde and combust, without the drama
Two words that get thrown around a lot and sound far worse than they are.
Retrograde means the planet appeared to move backwards across the sky. It isn't actually reversing — it's an optical effect of Earth overtaking it, the way a slower car seems to slide backwards when you pass it. Traditionally it makes a planet's themes more internal and slower to show results.
Combust means the planet sat very close to the Sun and was lost in its glare. The traditional reading is that its strength gets dimmed — not cancelled, dimmed.
Neither is a disaster. Plenty of people with several retrograde planets have perfectly ordinary lives. Anyone selling you a remedy for a retrograde is selling you something.
What this can and can't tell you
Worth being blunt, since this page has spent a while treating a chart as a serious object.
- It can describe tendencies, and it can time long stretches — that part is arithmetic, and two astrologers with the same birth data will compute the same periods.
- It can't tell you what someone will do with those tendencies. Two people with near-identical charts live completely different lives.
- It definitely can't give exact dates for a death, a diagnosis, or an exam result — and anyone who does is guessing with confidence.
Charts like his
What people ask about his kundli
What is Sachin Tendulkar's birth time, and does this page need it?
He was born on 24 April 1973 in Bombay. The time quoted most often, and the best-sourced one, is 1:00 pm — it traces back to an interview with the doctor who delivered him, together with a photograph of the hospital register. Other times circulate on astrology sites; the two we tested against are 2:25 pm and 4:20 pm.
Here's the part nobody else bothers to tell you: we ran his chart at all three. Every one of the nine planets lands in exactly the same sign each time, and his birth nakshatra doesn't move either. So everything stated on this page holds whichever time turns out to be right — which is also why we stick to signs and long dasha eras instead of inventing houses.
What is his zodiac sign and nakshatra?
This is where two different systems get mixed up. By the Western calendar sign, a 24 April birthday makes him a Taurus. Vedic astrology uses the sidereal zodiac, and there his Sun sits in Aries (Mesha) — exalted, the strongest position the Sun can hold.
When Indian astrologers say rashi, though, they usually mean the Moon sign, and his is Sagittarius (Dhanu). His birth nakshatra is Purva Ashadha, fourth pada, ruled by Venus — that single star is what the entire dasha sequence on this page is computed from.
Is Sachin Tendulkar manglik?
There are manglik indications in his chart, and the classical cancellations for them both apply — so on the standard reading this is a cancelled mangal dosha, not a live one. We got the same verdict computing it at all three circulating birth times, which makes it one of the few questions about him you can answer without settling the birth-time argument first.
The working, so you can check it: his Mars sits in the 2nd sign from his Moon, which the wider of the two common rule-sets counts as a manglik position. Both standard cancellations then fire — Mars is exalted in Capricorn, its own best sign, and Jupiter sits in that same sign, conjunct it. The version of the test measured from the rising sign would still need a confirmed birth minute, and Lesson 07 explains why we won't fake that one.
Does his kundli have kaal sarp dosh?
On the textbook definition, yes — and this is one you can check without a birth time at all, because it depends only on where the planets sit around the zodiac, not on houses.
Rahu falls at roughly 257° in Sagittarius, with Ketu directly opposite at 77° in Gemini. All seven classical planets — Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn — land inside the half of the circle running from Rahu round to Ketu. Not one of them sits on the other side. That hemming-in between the two nodes is exactly what kaal sarp yoga describes.
Two honest caveats. His Moon sits only about 7° from Rahu, in the same nakshatra, and several traditions treat a planet that close to a node as making the yoga partial rather than complete. And more to the point: he carried this configuration through all 664 international matches and 100 international hundreds. It describes the shape of a chart. It is not a verdict on a life.
Around this kundli
Real searches from Google India around Sachin's horoscope — the pages they lead to are on their way.