Thursday, July 8, 2010

Test Cricket Records


Appearances of Game :
On his Test debut,
Sachin Tendulkar was the third youngest debutant (16y 205d). Mushtaq Mohammad (15y 124d) and Aaqib Javed (16y 189d) debuted in Test matches younger to Tendulkar. Since then, there have been 2 players who were younger than Sachin on their Test Cricket debut: Hasan Raza - Pakistan (14y 227d), the current youngest debutant, and Mohammad Sharif - Bangladesh (15y 128d).
Tendulkar has played the most number of Test Matches (166) for India (Kapil Dev and Rahul Dravid are second with 131 Test appearances each).
Tendulkar is second in the list of players with most Test caps at 166. Only Steve Waugh (168 Tests) has appeared in more games than Tendulkar. .
Runs Scored:
Highest run scorer in the history of Test cricket with 13447 Test runs.
Career Average (1989–2010, 166 Tests, 13,447 runs) at 55.56
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. .
Second Indian after
Sunil Gavaskar to make over 10,000 runs in Test matches. .
Tendulkar and
Brian Lara are the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket history. Both of them achieved this in 195 innings. .
Sachin Tendulkar (7429) world record of runs scored in Tests away from home.
First player to reach 12,000-13,000 Test runs.
Tendulkar has five calendar years with 1000 or more runs - 2008(1063), 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 Tendulkar, Matthew Hayden, Ricky Ponting and Brian Lara have five seasons with 1000 or more runs in Test cricket.
Centuries:
Highest number of Test centuries(47), overtaking
Sunil Gavaskar's record (34) on 10 December 2005 vs Sri Lanka in Delhi. Ricky Ponting has 39 centuries to his credit and Brian Lara has scored 34 Test 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.
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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 Atapattu.
Tendulkar's 37th century against Bangladesh during the 2nd Test , made history as the 1st time the top four batsmen of any team had all scored centuries in a single innings.
Dinesh Karthik (129), Wasim Jaffer (138) and Rahul Dravid (129) were the other centurions in the innings.













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