Online Scoreboard : Live Cricket Scores : India VS Australia 2nd Test, Mohali, Border-Gavaskar Test Series 2008 : Tendulkar goes beyond 12000 to break record
October 17, 2008
Sachin Tendulkar became the leading run-scorer in Test cricket after passing Brian Lara’s mark of 11,953. He achieved the record when he reached 16 with a sway through gully for 3 off Peter Siddle’s a minute after tea on the first day of the second Test against Australia at Mohali.
Despite, his significant achievement, there was only a small crowd on hand to see Tendulkar at the stadium, but following after he turned for a third run, fireworks went off around the Punjab Cricket Association stadium and the game stopped for several minutes while Australia skipper Ricky Ponting was the first of the Australians to shake Tendulkar’s hand followed by the each Australian player.
The 35-year-old batsman, playing his 152nd Test, with already owns the most hundreds in Tests with 39 and has 49 half centuries. He started the second match of the four-test series against Australia with 11,939 test runs at an average of 54.02 and had slinked up on Lara’s record.
Lara, who played 131 tests, overtook former Australia captain Allan Border’s mark of 11,174 runs in Adelaide in November 2005. Retired West Indies former captain currently hold a momentous innings of world-record 400 against England in 2004, which was overtook Matthew Hayden’s 380 as the highest score in Tests, and followed his 375 against the same team 10 years earlier.
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