On a gloomy day when the Indian batting order collapsed in a heap against minnows Bangladesh, Sachin Tendulkar quietly reached yet another milestone when he became the first batsman to score 13,000 Test runs in Chittagong on Sunday.The highest run accumulator in both the Test and ODI versions of the game went into the first Test needing 30 runs to reach the milestone. Batting on 28, Tendulkar pulled Mahmudullah in the 36th over and the ball raced to the rope to bring up his 13000 runs in Tests in the 36th over. Tendulkar's record is equally impressive in ODIs with the batting great piling up a record 17,394 runs from 440 one dayers, averaging 44.71 and including 45 centuries and 93 half centuries.
News On AIR | January 17, 2010 6:07 PM
Tendulkar becomes first batsman to score 13,000 Test runs