a milestone man
with a voracious appetite for individual records, Sachin Tendulkar is perhaps the greatest milestone-man in the history of cricket.
The 35-year-old eclipsed West Indian legend Brain Lara to become the highest accumulator of runs in Test cricket with a tally of 11,939 when he played an 88-run knock against Australia in the ongoing second Test at Mohali.
Tendulkar was only 15 when he reached his first personal landmark. The right-hander scored an unbeaten 100 for Bombay against Gujarat in the Ranji Trophy, becoming the youngest cricketer to score a century on first-class debut.
Besides, Tendulkar is the only player to score a century in his Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts.
The master batsman has played in 417 ODIs, the most number by any player and is also the highest run-getter in the shorter version of the game.
He has 16,361 runs in 407 innings at an average of 44. He has scored an incredible 42 hundreds and 89 half centuries in the 50-over format, the highest by any batsman.
Tendulkar missed out on a hundred today but has scored 39 centuries in Test cricket. His 50th fifty today made him the second Indian and fourth overall to post 50 half-centuries or more in Test cricket.
Allan Border tops the chart with 63 half-century knocks, followed by Rahul Dravid (53) and Steve Waugh (50).
Tendulkar was the highest run scorer of the 1996 and 2003 Cricket World Cup.
On seven occasions, he has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year in ODIs.
He also holds the record for most ODI runs in a year after accumulating 1894 runs in 1998 at an average of 65.
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