“When people throw stones at you, you turn them into milestones” : Sachin

“Sachin Tendulkar”, the name says it all. He is perhaps the only contemporary cricketer about whom so much has been written and so much has been read but you still end up craving for more. For someone who is in his 38th year it is not easy to keep the passion going, however here is the man who has an endless appetite of scoring runs for his country. The only man to score a double hundred in One Day Internationals, when quizzed about people still questioning him over his inability to make India win the matches, he famously said, “When people throw stones at you, you turn them into milestones”. Without taking much of your time now, we are presenting some milestones reached by the Master at the end of Border Gavaskar series 2010. These milestones in no way can replace the happiness he has brought on not just a billion Indian fans but fans all around the world. The player who is loved in each and every country, SACHIN TENDULKAR.

Sachin Tendulkar’s milestones after the Bangalore Test Match

*Tendulkar stretches his world record of scoring 100′s with a six. This is the 5th time he reached a 100 with a six. Arvinda De Silva and Imran Khan are next in the list, both have done it 3 times.

Tendulkar’s 100 off a SIX

Opposition	Bowler	Runs	Balls	4′s	6′s	SR	Ground	Date
West Indies	C Walsh	179	322	24	1	55.59	Nagpur	1 Dec 1994
England	M Patel	122	177	19	1	68.92	Edgbaston	6 Jun 1996
New Zealand	D Vettori	113	151	13	2	74.83	Wellington	26 Dec 1998
Australia	C Miller	126	230	15	2	54.78	Chennai	18 Mar 2001
Australia	N Hauritz	214	363	22	2	58.95	Bangalore	9 Oct 2010

*This is Tendulkar’s 49th Test Century and 95th overall in International Cricket (46 in ODIs).

*1st batsman to score 14000 test runs, he is the first to surpass 12000 and 13000 test runs as well.

*Tendulkar has become the 3rd batsmen to score 3000 runs against Australia. The other two being Jack Hobbs and David Grower (both from England).

*Tendulkar is the fastest cricketer to reach 3000 runs against Australia. He reached the milestone in 31st test against the Aussies.

*Tendulkar has scored 11 test hundreds against the Australia. Jack Hobbs has the record of 12 test centuries against the Australia.

* His 214 is the 6th score of 150+ against Australia, previously the record was shared between Brian Lara (WI) and WR Hammond (Eng) with 5 centuries. Another Record.

* This is Sachin’s 2nd highest score(267) in a test match, highest being (301) against Australia at Sydney in 2004.

* Tendulkar has scored 10 times over 50 runs in both the innings of a test match.

Score of over 50 in both the innings

Opposition	1st Inng	2nd Inng	Runs	Ground	Date
England	68	119*	187	Manchester	9 Aug 1990
West Indies	179	54	233	Nagpur	1 Dec 1994
England	177	74	251	Nottingham	4 Jul 1996
Sri Lanka	53	124*	177	Colombo (SSC)	24 Feb 1999
Australia	116	52	168	Melbourne	26 Dec 1999
Australia	76	65	141	Mumbai	27 Feb 2001
Australia	241*	60*	301	Sydney	2 Jan 2004
Pakistan	52	52	104	Kolkata	16 Mar 2005
Australia	214	53*	267	Bangalore	9 Oct 2010

* He is the only player with whom 3 batsmen have scored their Maiden Test Century and is involved in double century partnership, 220 with Sehwag against South Africa at Bloemfontein in 2001, 256 with Raina against Sri Lanka at Colombo (SSC) in 2010 and 308 with M Vijay against Australia at Bangalore in 2010.

* This is the 5th time he has won the Man of the Series Award. Out of these 5, 3 are against Australia in 1997-98, 1999-00 and 2010-11, 1 against England in 2001-02 and 1 against Bangladesh in 2007.

* Sachin has 14 Man of the Match awards against Australia (5), New Zealand (3), England (2), Pakistan (1), West Indies(1), South Africa(1), Bangladesh (1) and 4 at Chennai alone.

*Sachin has now been involved in 18 double century partnerships.

* Tendulkar has scored 20 times more than 150 runs in a test inning, a world record again, Lara had earlier with 19 scores of 150+

Tendulkar’s scores of 150+ in Test Cricket

Opposition	Runs	Balls	4′s	6′s	SR	Ground	Date
England	165	296	24	1	55.74	Chennai	11 Feb 1993
West Indies	179	322	24	1	55.59	Nagpur	1 Dec 1994
England	177	360	26	0	49.16	Nottingham	4 Jul 1996
South Africa	169	254	26	0	66.53	Cape Town	2 Jan 1997
Australia	155*	191	14	4	81.15	Chennai	6 Mar 1998
Australia	177	207	29	3	85.50	Bangalore	25 Mar 1998
New Zealand	217	344	29	0	63.08	Ahmedabad	29 Oct 1999
Zimbabwe	201*	281	27	0	71.53	Nagpur	25 Nov 2000
South Africa	155	184	23	1	84.23	Bloemfontein	3 Nov 2001
Zimbabwe	176	316	23	0	55.69	Nagpur	21 Feb 2002
England	193	330	19	3	58.48	Leeds	22 Aug 2002
West Indies	176	298	26	0	59.06	Kolkata	30 Oct 2002
Australia	241*	436	33	0	55.27	Sydney	2 Jan 2004
Pakistan	194*	348	21	0	55.74	Multan	28 Mar 2004
Bangladesh	248*	379	35	0	65.43	Dhaka	10 Dec 2004
Australia	154*	243	14	1	63.37	Sydney	2 Jan 2008
Australia	153	205	13	3	74.63	Adelaide	24 Jan 2008
New Zealand	160	260	26	0	61.53	Hamilton	18 Mar 2009
Sri Lanka	203	347	23	1	58.50	Colombo (SSC)	26 Jul 2010
Australia	214	363	22	2	58.95	Bangalore	9 Oct 2010

* Tendulkar scored his 6th century of this year, the highest by any Indian player in a year. Previously the record was shared between Gavaskar (1978, 1983), GR Viswanath (1979), Dravid (2002) and Tendulkar (1999)

* Tendulkar has an average of above 60 against 5 test playing nations, Australia (60.59), Bangladesh (136.66), England (61.42), Sri Lanka (60.45), Zimbabwe (76.50)

* Tendulkar has scored 1000 runs 6 times in a year which is another world record.

1000 runs in a Year

Year	Matches	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100	50
1997	12	17	1000	62.50	169	4	3
1999	10	19	1088	68.00	217	5	4
2001	10	18	1003	62.68	155	3	6
2002	16	26	1392	55.68	193	4	5
2008	13	25	1063	48.31	154*	4	3
2010	9*	15	1270	97.69	214	6	4

* It’s also Tendulkar’s 24th fifty-plus (53*) score against Australia in 31 Tests. Only Jack Hobbs (27) have more.

* Last time Tendulkar scored a hundred at Bangalore was in 1998 against the same opposition Australia. He passed his previous best of 177, but that innings is still his best hundred in terms of strike rates.

Tendulkar’s 5 best 100′s in terms of strike rates

Opposition	Runs	Balls	4′s	6′s	SR	Ground	Date
Australia	177	207	29	3	85.50	Bangalore	25 Mar 1998
South Africa	155	184	23	1	84.23	Bloemfontein	3 Nov 2001
Australia	155*	191	14	4	81.15	Chennai	6 Mar 1998
Bangladesh	143	182	13	1	78.57	Dhaka	24 Jan 2010
New Zealand	113	151	13	2	74.83	Wellington	26 Dec 1998

* Tendulkar’s fourth inning’s average has shot up to 56.71 since Jan 01, 2007. In his last 10 innings since 2007 in the 4th innings Tendulkar has scored 397 runs with an average of 56.71, one century and three three half centuries.

* This is the 7th time Tendulkar has scored more than 400 runs in test series.

Tendulkar’s score of more than 400 in a Test Series

Opposition	Matches	Runs	Aveg	HS	100	50	Year
Australia	4	493	70.42	154*	2	2	2007-08
Australia	3	446	111.50	177	2	1	1997-98
New Zealand	3	435	108.75	217	2	0	1999-2000
England	3	428	85.60	177	2	1	1996
Australia	2	403	134.33	214	1	2	2010-11
West Indies	3	402	67.00	179	1	2	1994-95
England	4	401	66.83	193	1	2	2002

Milestones to achieve:

* He is 3 tons short of highest test hundreds in a year by any batsman. Mohd Yousuf (Pak) held the record of 9 test centuries in the year 2006

* 519 runs short of highest test runs in a year. Mohd Yousuf held record, he scored 1788 runs with an average of 99.33 in 11 test in 2006

* 1 hundred away from 50th test 100 and 5 hundreds away from 100 centuries in International Cricket.

Oh yes, he has more than 1 billion fans, a record no other cricketer could even dream of.

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