Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Records

Records

Sachin Tendulkar's career performance graph.
Sachin Tendulkar's career performance graph.

Test Cricket

Game Appearances:

  • Tendulkar has played the most number of Test Matches for India (Kapil Dev is second with 131 Test appearances).
    • 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

Runs Scored:

  • Second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to make over 10,000 runs in Test matches.
  • Became the first Indian to surpass the 11,000 Test run mark and the third International player behind Allan Border and Brian Lara. Lara took 213 innings, Sachin 223 and Border 259.
  • Highest run scoring Indian with 11,183 Test runs. 2nd highest tally of any player.
  • Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket history. Both of them achieved this in 195 innings.
  • 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.
  • Career Average 55.19 - the highest average among those who have scored over 10,000 Test runs.
  • 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.
  • Tendulkar is only the third batsman in the history of Test cricket to go past the 11,000-run tally, after Brian Lara and Allan Border.

Centuries:

  • When Tendulkar scored his maiden century in 1990, he was the second youngest to score a century. Only Mushtaq Mohammad had scored a century at a younger age by 1990. Tendulkar's record was bettered by Mohammad Ashraful in 2001/02 season. The record for previous youngest Indian centurion was held by Kapil Dev.
  • Tendulkar's record of five centuries before he turned 20 is a current world record.
  • Tendulkar holds the current record (217 against NZ in 1999/00 Season) for the highest score in Test cricket by an Indian when captaining the side. Gavaskar held the previous record (205 against West Indies in Bombay - 1978/79 season)
  • Tendulkar has scored centuries against all test playing nations. He was the third batman to achieve the distinction after Steve Waugh and Gary Kirsten. The current list also includes Brian Lara, Ricky Ponting, Rahul Dravid, Jacques Kallis, Adam Gilchrist and Marvan Attapattu.
  • 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.

ODI

Highlights of Tendulkar's ODI career include:

Game Appearances:

  • Matches Played: 407 ( Most )
    • Consecutive ODI Appearances: 185
    • Most Stadium Appearances: 90 different Grounds

Runs Scored:

  • Most Runs: 15,962 Runs at just over 44 runs per innings (as of 18 November 2007). He is the leading run scorer in the ODI format of the game and the only player ever to cross the 15,000 run mark.
  • First player to reach 10,000-11,000-12,000-13,000-14,000 and 15,000 ODI runs.
  • 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 and 2007
  • Tendulkar has scored over 1000 ODI runs against all major Cricketing nations.

Centuries & Fifties Record:

  • Most centuries: 41
    • Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs (41 Centuries and 87 Fifties)(as of 18th Nov, 2007)
    • Fifties: 87. Tendulkar holds the record for the most ODI fifties, Pakistan's Inzaman ul-Haq is second with 83 and Rahul Dravid is third with 81.
  • Most centuries vs. Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.

ODI Awards:

Calendar Year Record:

  • Most ODI runs in a calendar year: 1,894 ODI runs in 1998.
  • Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998

Partnership Records:

  • Sachin Tendulkar with Sourav Ganguly hold the world record for the maximum number of runs scored by the opening partnership. They have put together 6,271 runs in 128 matches that includes 20 century partnerships and 21 fifty run partnerships. The 20 century partnerships for opening pair is also a world record.
  • Sachin Tendulkar has been involved in six 200 run partnerships in ODI matches - a record that he shares with Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid.

World Cup

  • 523 runs in the 1996 Cricket World Cup at an average of 87.16, making him the highest run scorer in the 1996 World Cup and setting the then record for the highest runs by any player in a single Cricket World Cup - subsequently bettered by himself in the 2003 World Cup

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