List of World Records Tendulkar owns in International Cricket

Recently the buzz in Cricket is all about Tendulkar who has scored the first double hundred in ODI cricket.

That is a world record and I started wondering how many world records does Tendulkar own.

Here is a compiled list of all records the great man owns…

  • Most runs scored by a batsman in Test career: 14,692 runs.
  • Most runs scored by a batsman in ODI career: 18,111 runs.
  • Most centuries scored by in Test career: 51 hundreds.
  • Most centuries scored in a ODI career: 48 hundreds.
  • Most fifties in a Test career: 55
  • Most fifties in a ODI career: 96
  • Most fours hit in a Test career: 1781
  • Most fours hit in a ODI career: 1927
  • Most nineties in a ODI career: 18 (Just imagine if he had converted even half of them to 100s!)
  • Most man of match awards in ODI career: 63
  • Most man of the series awards in ODI career: 15
  • Highest individual score in a ODI match: 200*
  • First batsman to score 200 in a ODI match.
  • Highest number of international centuries: 99
  • Most test matches played by a cricketer: 177

What do you think of these records? Do you know of any more I missed? Do drop in your comments.

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