The God Of Cricket and Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar will recieve the Order Of Australia honour from Australian Cabinet Minister Simon Crean during his visit to India.The announcement was made by the The Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard.
"I'm very pleased we're going to confer on Sachin Tendulkar membership
of the Order of Australia, an AM," Gillard told reporters in Delhi.
"This is a very special honour, very rarely awarded to someone who is
not an Australian citizen or an Australian national.He is away playing cricket - surprise, surprise - but the award will be
conferred on him by minister Crean when he visits India. So a very
special honour and a very special recognition of such a great batsman."
Sachin Tendulkar will be only fourth non-Australian Cricketer to get the honour after Brian Lara,Sir Gary Sobers and Clive Lloyd,all three are West Indian cricketers.Currentely,Sachin Tendulkar is in South Africa for the ongoing Champions League T20 Championship representing his IPL Team Mumbai Indians.
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