FIFA World Ranking Report February 2010:

Top 50 Place:

1 Spain 1627
2 Brazil 1568
3 Netherlands 1288
4 Italy 1209
5 Portugal 1176
6 Germany 1173
7 France 1117
8 Argentina 1082
9 England 1076
10 Egypt 1069
11 Croatia 1053
12 Greece 1030
13 Russia 1026
14 USA 963
15 Nigeria 956
16 Chile 955
17 Mexico 947
18 Switzerland 924
19 Serbia 916
20 Cameroon 914
21 Uruguay 909
22 Côte d'Ivoire 865
23 Australia 857
24 Ukraine 848
25 Czech Republic 828
26 Denmark 827
27 Ghana 823
27 Israel 823
29 Paraguay 806
30 Bulgaria 801
31 Algeria 784
32 Norway 772
33 Slovenia 767
34 Honduras 759
35 Ecuador 753
36 Slovakia 752
37 Republic of Ireland 746
38 Romania 745
39 Colombia 736
40 Japan 729
40 Northern Ireland 729
42 Turkey 728
43 Sweden 727
44 Gabon 706
45 Costa Rica 699
46 Scotland 665
47 Venezuela 646
48 Bosnia-Herzegovina 645
49 Korea Republic 634
49 Latvia 634

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar pronunciation (Marathi: born 24 April 1973) is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and One Day International cricket. He is the only male player to score a double century in an innings in the history of ODI cricket. In 2002, Wisden ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time, next to Donald Bradman, and the second greatest one day international (ODI) batsman of all time, next to Viv Richards. In September 2007, the Australian leg spinner Shane Warne rated Tendulkar as the greatest player he has played with or against. Tendulkar was the only player of the current generation to be included in Bradman's Eleven. He is sometimes referred to as Little Master or Master Blaster.

Tendulkar is the first player to score fifty centuries in all international crickets combined, he now has 93 international centuries. On 17 October 2008, when he surpassed Brian Lara's record for the most runs scored in Test Cricket, he also became the first batsman to score 12,000 runs in that form of the game, having also been the third batsman and first Indian to pass 11,000 runs in Test cricket. He was also the first player to score 10,000 runs in one-day internationals, and also the first player to cross every subsequent 1000-run mark that has been crossed in ODI cricket history. In the fourth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia, Tendulkar surpassed Australia's Allan Border to become the player to cross the 50-run mark the most number of times in Test cricket history, and also the second ever player to score 10 Test centuries against Australia, after only Sir Jack Hobbs of England more than 70 years previously. Tendulkar passed 30,000 runs in international cricket on 20 November 2009, and has been honoured with the Padma Vibhushan award, India's second highest civilian award, and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India's highest sporting honour.

India's top sportspersons felicitated in Mumbai

For the award function several sports personalities gathered for the award function.

The award function was organized by the magazine Sports Illustrated.

Tendulkar was also presented a miniature gold bat for his double century in ODI against South Africa on 24 Feb.

Tendulkar expressing happiness, he said, "It has taken many years for somebody to get a double hundred and it was fantastic feeling the kind of reaction I got. And I'm still getting the reactions, just want to take this opportunity to thank all the people for having reacted so warmly. It feels terrific."

Abhinav Bindra, shooter Olympic gold medalist expressing happiness with an award. Sania Mirza was presenting a gold tennis ball for her performance.

During the award function sania said that she is preparing for the common wealth game in New Delhi October 2010.

Sania said, "Of course, to me Commonwealth and Asian Games is the most important thing at the moment. Firstly, it is happening in India and secondly, it is my third Asian Games and first Commonwealth, so I'm really looking forward to it”.

Fifa Referees 2010:

FIFA announced its final list of 30 referees for World Cup 2010 in South Africa

Europe

Olegario Benquerenca, Portugal
Massimo Busacca, Switzerland
Frank De Bleekere, Belgium
Martin Hansson, Sweden
Viktor Kassai, Hungary
Stephane Lannoy, France
Roberto Rosetti, Italy
Wolfgang Stark, Germany
Alberto Undiano Mallenco
Howard Webb, England

South America

Carlos Amarilla, Paraguay
Hector Baldassi, Argentina
Jorge Larrionda, Uruguay
Pablo Pozo, Chile
Oscar Ruiz, Colombia
Carlos Simon, Brazil

Asia

Khalil Al Ghamdi, Saudi Arabia
Ravshan Irmatov, Uzbekistan
Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh, Malaysia
Yuichi Nishimura, Japan

Africa

Mohamed Benouza, Algeria
Koman Coulibaly, Mali
Jerome Damon, South Africa