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.