Sachin Tendulkar Career Profile

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  • 8th Oct  2007, Tendulkar reached 53, he became the first batsman to make 1000 runs in a calendar year seven times. Tendulkar has achieved it in 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003, and 2007. The only other batsman to manage it even six times is his current opening partner, Ganguly. Tendulkar is also the seventh batsman to get to 1000 ODI runs in 2007 - Mahela Jayawardene, Ian Bell, Paul Collingwood, Matthew Hayden, Sourav Ganguly and Ricky Ponting are the others.
  • Career Average 55.78 - the highest average among those who have scored over 10,000 Test runs.
  • Became the first Indian to surpass the 11,000 Test run mark and the third International player behind Allan Border and Brian Lara.
  • Tendulkar is fourth on the list of players with most Test caps. Steve Waugh (168 Tests), Allan Border (158 Tests), Shane Warne (145 Tests) have appeared in more games than Tendulkar
  • Tendulkar has played the most number of Test Matches(144) for India (Kapil Dev is second with 131 Test appearances).
  • Sachin's 37th ton against Bangladesh during the 2007 series 2nd Test, made history as the 1st time the top four batsman of any team had all scored centuries in a single innings. Dinesh Karthik made 129, Wasim Jaffer 138 and Rahul Dravid 129 were the other centurions.
  • Tendulkar is the only player who has 150 wkts and more than 15000 runs in ODI
  • Tendulkar is the only player who has 40 wkts and more than 11000 runs in Tests
  • Most number of hundreds in the ODI 41
  • On 3 January 2007 Sachin Tendulkar (5751) edged past Brian Lara's (5736) world record of runs scored in Tests away from home. Tendulkar achieved this in 75 away Test matches while Lara had scored his runs in 66 away Tests.
  • Tendulkar has 4 seasons with 1000 or more runs - 2002 (1392 runs), 1999 (1088 runs), 2001 (1003 runs) and 1997 (1000 runs). Gavaskar is the only other Indian with four seasons of 1000+ runs. Only Hayden and Lara have five seasons with 1000+ runs in International cricket.
  • Holds the record for scoring 1,000 ODI runs in a calendar year. He has done it seven times - 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003,2007, 2008
  • ODI:--- Most Man of the Series Awards: 14 Man of the Series Awards
  • ODI:--- Most Man of the Match Awards: 58 Man of the Match Awards
  • Most Runs: 16007 Runs at the rate of 44.21 runs per innings (as of February 05, 2008). He is the leading run scorer in the ODI format of the game and the only player ever to cross the 13,000-14,000-15,000 and 16,000 run marks.
  • First player to reach 10,000-11,000-12,000-13,000-14,000-15,000, 16000 ,17000 ODI runs.
  • Highest run scorer in the history of test cricket with 12037 Test runs. He achieved this feat after surpassing West Indies' Brian Lara against Australia in the Border Gavaskar Trophy series, on October 17, 2008 at Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, India.

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