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Sachin Tendulkar Factbox
Factbox on Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar, who became the fifth batsman in Test history to score 10,000 career runs.
Factbox on Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar, who became the fifth batsman in Test history to score 10,000 career runs during the second Test against Pakistan.
Born: April 24, 1973, Bombay (Mumbai).
Bats: Right-handed.
Bowls: Right-arm leg break.
Test debut: Against Pakistan at Karachi in November 1989. 123 Tests, 10,134 runs. Average 57.25 (before current innings). 34 centuries.
ODI debut: Against Pakistan at Gujranwala in December 1989. 344 matches, 13,503 runs, 37 hundreds, 69 fifties, average 44.56. 137 wickets.
Widely regarded as the world's best contemporary batsman. Holds world record for ODI runs and ODI centuries.
Ranked second in both all-time Test and one-day lists by Wisden, behind Australia's Don Bradman and West Indies' Viv Richards respectively.
Scored a world record 37 centuries in one-dayers. He has passed 13,000 runs.
Teenage prodigy. As a schoolboy, scored 326 not out as he put on 664 with Vinod Kambli, also a future India Test player.
Aged 15, 100 not out on debut for Bombay vs Gujarat. Became India's youngest Test player at 16 in 1989. Aged 17, 119 not out against England at Old Trafford.
In 1990, became the first overseas player to represent English county Yorkshire.
Two unsuccessful terms as Indian captain, the first aged 23 in 1996 but axed 17 months later after his batting suffered. Re-appointed in 1999 but stood down after 3-0 Test series rout in Australia.
Equalled Bradman's 29 Test centuries, scoring 117 at Port of Spain in April, 2002 vs West Indies when India won their first Test in Caribbean in more than 26 years.
Scored 193 for his 30th hundred to go past Bradman vs England in third Test at Headingley in 2002.
Has suffered from a series of injuries in the last two years, including tennis elbow in August which kept him out of the game for two months.
Equalled Gavaskar's 34 Test centuries in December 2004 against Bangladesh.
Went on to get 248 not out, his highest first-class score and the fourth highest Test knock by an Indian. The list is headed by Virender Sehwag's 309 against Pakistan in Multan in March 2004.
Crossed 10,000 runs at Eden Gardens during the second Test against Pakistan in March 2005, a week after falling six short of a world record 35th century in Mohali.
