Highlights

Highlights of Tendulkar’s Test career include:

• Rated as the second best batsman of all time (next to Don Bradman) by Wisden [1][3]

• Highest number of Test centuries (35), overtaking Sunil Gavaskar’s record (34) on 10 December 2005 vs Sri Lanka in Delhi.

• Played in the highest number of Cricket Grounds - he has played Test Cricket on 52 different grounds, ahead of Azharuddin (48), Kapil Dev (47), Inzamam-ul-Haq (46) and Wasim Akram (45).

• He is the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket history. He holds this record along with Brian Lara. Both of them achieved this feat in 195 innings.

• 4th highest tally of runs in Test cricket (10,323)

• Career Average 55.79 - Has the highest average among those who have scored over 10,000 Test runs

• Second Indian to make over 10,000 runs in Test matches.

• Has 37 Test wickets (14 Dec 2005)

• Second fastest player to reach 9000 runs (Brian Lara made 9000 in 177 innings, Sachin in 179.)

Highlights of Tendulkar’s ODI career include:

• Played more matches than any other cricketer

• Most Man of the Match (50) awards

• Appeared on the most grounds (89 different grounds)

• Most runs (14,146 as of 15th February, 2006)

• Most centuries (39)

• Most centuries vs. Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.

• First cricketer to cross 10,000-run mark in ODIs

• Only cricketer to cross 14,000-run mark in ODIs

• Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs as of February, 2006

• Over 100 wickets (141 as of 15th February, 2006)

• Highest batting average among batsmen with over 10,000 ODI runs (as of March 17, 2006)

• Highest individual score among Indian batsmen (186* against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999)

• Holds the record for scoring 1,000 ODI runs in a calendar year. He has done it six times - 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2003.

• In 1998 he made 1,894 ODI runs, still the record for ODI runs by any batsman in any given calendar year.

• In 1998 he hit 9 ODI centuries, the highest by any player in an year.

World Cup

• Most runs (1732 at an average of 59.72) in World Cup Cricket History

• Player Of The Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.

• 673 runs in 2003 World Cup, highest by any one in a single Cricket World Cup

Miscellaneous

• Sachin Tendulkar is the first batsman to have been declared run out by a third umpire in 1992 against South Africa in South Africa.

• He was the first overseas cricketer to play for Yorkshire CCC in 1992.

• Oddly, Wisden does not include any innings by Tendulkar among its list of 100 greatest Test batting performances.