Sachin Tendulkar Cricinfo

• India's Sachin Tendulkar, who equaled Sunil Gavaskar's world record 34 test centuries in the first test against Bangladesh .,2004-05

• Tendulkar, in his 119th test, got to three figures by scampering for a quick single to mid-on and celebrated by raising his bat and punching his fists. Sunil Gavaskar had played 125 matches for his 34 tons. 2004-05

• The 31-year-old Tendulkar also became only the third player in history, after Gary Kirsten and Steve Waugh, to score centuries against all test-playing nations.

• Mar 16,2005, India's Sachin Tendulkar, who became the fifth batsman in test history to score 10,000 runs during the second test against Pakistan

• Test debut: v Pakistan, Karachi, Nov 1989. 122nd test, 10,000runs. Average 57.64 (before current innings). 34 centuries.

• ODI debut: v Pakistan, Gujranwala, Dec 1989. 342 matches, 13,497 runs, 37 hundreds, 69 fifties, average 44.84. 132 wickets.

• March 2005, crossed 10,000 runs at the Eden Gardens in second test against Pakistan, a week after falling six short of a world record 35th century in Mohali.

• Tendulkar flicks Razzaq for a single to reach 27 and became the fifth player in history to 10,000 runs. Only Allan Border, Sunil Gavaskar, Steve Waugh and Brian Lara have reached the milestone before.

• November 19,2005 ,Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar equaled former Pakistan all rounder Wasim Akram's record of most one-day appearances by playing in his 356th match.

• November 25,2005, Fast bowler Shaun Pollock triggered an Indian collapse in mildly seaming conditions, claiming three for 25 and dismissing Sachin Tendulkar for two runs on the Indian batsman's record 357th one-day appearance.

• December 10.2005:-Sachin Tendulkar struck a world record 35th test hundred on Saturday, claiming the coveted landmark by surpassing his compatriot Sunil Gavaskar.

• December 10,2005, scores a record 35th hundred on the first day of the second test against Sri Lanka in New Delhi, surpassing compatriot Gavaskar's mark.

• February 6,2006,The Indian batsman is the first ever player to have played as many as 359 matches and scored 39 hundreds in the shorter version of the game.

• February 6,2006, Sachin Tendulkar set a new world record by completing 14,000 one-day runs en route his 39th century in the first one-day international against Pakistan in Peshawar.