Sachin 's journey to 17,000 runs

Sachin Tendulkar just needs seven more runs to complete 17,000 runs in One Day International matches.

We look back at the milestones in the living legend's career, right from the time he scored his first thousand runs in ODIs.

Milestone: 1000 runs on March 7, 1992

Age: 18

Match: India vs Zimbabwe at Hamilton, New Zealand

At his 36th one-day match, 18-year-old Sachin scored his first thousand runs. Sachin scored 81 runs off 77 balls. India went on to win the match by 55 runs.
Age: 20

Match: India vs UAE at Sharjah, UAE

Playing his 73rd one-day match Sachin completed his 2000 runs. He scored 63 runs off 77 balls and helped India win the match by 71 runs.


* Milestone: 3000 runs on April 9, 1995

Age: 21

Match: India vs Sri Lanka at Sharjah, UAE

At his 96th one-day match, Sachin scored 112 runs off 107 balls and remained not out as India won the match by 8 wickets.

*Milestone: 4000 runs on April 17, 1996

Age: 22

Match: India vs South Africa at Sharjah, UAE

Sachin, playing his 115th one-day match, scored 17 runs off 26 balls. India lost the match by 5 wickets.

Milestone: 5000 runs on February 12, 1997

Age: 23

Match: India vs South Africa, Durban, South Africa

Sachin's 141st ODI was abandoned due to rain but he scored 32 runs off 55 balls to achieve the feat.


* Milestone: 6000 runs on January 14, 1998

Age: 24

Match: India vs Pakistan, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Sachin scored 95 runs off 104 balls in his 176th one-day match and contributed to India's 8-wicket victory.


*Milestone: 7000 runs on July 7, 1998

Age: 25

Match: India vs Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka

In his 196th ODI, Sachin scored a century and made 128 runs off 131 balls as India won the match by 6 runs.
Milestone: 8000 runs on June 8, 1999

Age: 26

Match: India vs Pakistan, Manchester, England

Sachin's knock of 45 runs off 65 balls in his 217th ODI in the World Cup match contributed to India's 47-run victory.


*Milestone: 9000 runs on March 19, 2000

Age: 26

Match: India vs South Africa, Nagpur, India

Sachin completed his 9,000 ODI runs in his 242nd match. He made 93 runs off 89 balls. India lost the match by 10 runs.


* Milestone: 10000 runs on March 31, 2001

Age: 27

Match: India vs Australia, Indore, India

Playing his 266th ODI Sachin made 139 runs off 125 balls. India won the match by 118 runs.
Milestone: 11000 runs on January 28, 2002

Age: 28

Match: India vs England, Kanpur, India

Sachin shone in his 284th ODI for India. He scored 87 runs off 67 balls and remained not out as India won the match by 8 wickets.


* Milestone: 12000 runs on March 1, 2003

Age: 29

Match: India vs Pakistan, Centurion, South Africa

In his 304th ODI in the World Cup in South Africa, the Little Master scored 98 runs off 75 balls. India won the match by 6 wickets.


*Milestone: 13000 runs on March 16, 2004

Age: 30

Match: India vs Pakistan, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

In his 330th ODI, Sachin scored 141 runs off 135 balls. But, India lost the match by 12 runs.
Milestone: 14000 runs on February 6, 2006

Age: 32

Match: India vs Pakistan, Peshawar, Pakistan

At his 359th ODI, Sachin scored 100 runs off 113 balls but India lost the match by 7 runs (D/L method)


* Milestone: 15000 runs on June 29, 2007

Age: 33

Match: India vs South Africa, Belfast, Ireland

Playing his 387th ODI, Sachin made 93 runs off 106 balls as India won the match by 6 wickets.


*Milestone: 16000 runs on February 5, 2008

Age: 34

Match: India vs Sri Lanka, Brisbane, Australia

At his 409th ODI, which was abandoned, Sachin scored 35 runs off 52 balls.
*Milestone: 17000 runs on 5 November,2009

Age: 36

Match: India v Australia, Hyderabad, India

At his 435th ODI, India lost the match by 3 runs, Sachin scored 175 runs off 141 balls.

Sir Sachin Tendulkar

Just have look at the records held by Sachin Tendulkar. No wonder why British Prime Minister is suggesting him for the honor of Sir …….


Records Held by Sachin Tendulkar

1. Highest Run scorer in the ODI

2. Most number of hundreds in the ODI 41

3. Most number of nineties in the ODI

4. Most number of man of the matches (56) in the ODI's

5. Most number of man of the series (14) in ODI's

6. Best average for man of the matches in ODI's

7. First Cricketer to pass 10000 run in the ODI

8. First Cricketer to pass 15000 run in the ODI

9. He is the highest run scorer in the world cup (1,796 at an average of 59.87 as on 20 March 2007)

10. Most number of the man of the matches in the world cup

11. Most number of runs 1996 world cup 523 runs in the 1996 Cricket World Cup at an average of 87.16

12. Most number of runs in the 2003 world cup 673 runs in 2003 Cricket World Cup, highest by any player in a single Cricket World Cup

13. He was Player of the World Cup Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.

14. Most number of Fifties in ODI's 87

15. Appeared in Most Number of ODI's 407

16. He is the only player to be in top 10 ICC ranking for 10 years.

17. Most number of 100's in test's 38

18. He is one of the three batsmen to surpass 11,000 runs in Test cricket, and the first Indian to do so

19. He is thus far the only cricketer to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest sporting honor

20. In 2003, Wisden rated Tendulkar as d No. 1 and Richards at No. 2 in all time Greatest ODI player

21. In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman after Sir Donald Bradman.

22. He was involved in unbroken 664-run partnership in a Harris Shield game in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli,

23. Tendulkar is the only player to score a century in all three of his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts

24. In 1992, at the age of 19, Tendulkar became the first overseas born player to represent Yorkshire

25. Tendulkar has been granted the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award and Padma Shri by Indian government. He is the only Indian cricketer to get all of them.

26. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year in ODI's 7 times

27. Tendulkar has scored 1894 runs in calendar year in ODI's most by any batsman

28. He is the highest earning cricketer in the world

29. He has the least percentage of the man of the matches awards won when team looses a match. Out of his 56 man of the match awards only 5 times India has lost.

30. Tendulkar most number man of match awards (10) against Australia

31. In August of 2003, Sachin Tendulkar was voted as the "Greatest Sportsman" of the country in the sport personalities category in the Best of India poll conducted by Zee News.

32. In November 2006, Time magazine named Tendulkar as one of the Asian Heroes.

33. In December 2006, he was named "Sports person of the Year

34. The current India Poised campaign run by The Times of India has nominated him as the Face of New India next to the likes of Amartya Sen and Mahatma Gandhi among others.

35. Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 50 centuries in international cricket

36. Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 75 centuries in international cricket: 79 centuries

37. Has the most overall runs in cricket, (ODIs+Tests+Twenty20s), as of 30 June 2007 he had accumulated almost 26,000 runs overall.

38. Is second on the most number of runs in test cricket just after Brian Lara

39. Sachin Tendulkar with Sourav Ganguly hold the world record for the maximum number of runs scored by the opening partnership. They have put together 6,271 runs in 128 matches

40. The 20 century partnerships for opening pair with Sourav Ganguly is a world record

41. Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid hold the world record for the highest partnership in ODI matches when they scored 331 runs against New Zealand in 1999

42. Sachin Tendulkar has been involved in six 200 run partnerships in ODI matches - a record that he shares with Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid

43. Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998

44. Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs (41 Centuries and 87 Fifties) (as of 18th Nov, 2007)

45. The only player ever to cross the 13,000-14,000 and 15,000 run marks IN ODI.

46. Highest individual score among Indian batsmen (186* against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999).

47. The score of 186* is listed the fifth highest score recorded in ODI matches

48. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 ODI runs against all major cricketing nations.

49. Sachin was the fastest to reach 10,000 runs taking 259 innings and has the highest batting average among batsmen with over 10,000 ODI runs

50. Most number of Stadium Appearances: 90 different Grounds

51. Consecutive ODI Appearances: 185

52. On his debut, Sachin Tendulkar was the second youngest debutant in the world

53. When Tendulkar scored his maiden century in 1990, he was the second youngest to score a century

54. Tendulkar's record of five test centuries before he turned 20 is a current world record

55. Tendulkar holds the current record (217 against NZ in 1999/00 Season) for the highest score in Test cricket by an Indian when captaining the side

56. Tendulkar has scored centuries against all test playing nations. [7] He was the third batman to achieve the distinction after Steve Waugh and Gary Kirsten

57. Tendulkar has 4 seasons in test cricket with 1000 or more runs - 2002 (1392 runs), 1999 (1088 runs), 2001 (1003 runs) and 1997 (1000 runs). [6] Gavaskar is the only other Indian with four seasons of 1000+ runs

58. He is second most number of seasons with over 1000 runs in world.

59. On 3 January 2007 Sachin Tendulkar (5751) edged past Brian Lara's (5736) world record of runs scored in Tests away from home

60. Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket history. Both of them achieved this in 195 innings

61. Second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to make over 10,000 runs in Test matches

62. Became the first Indian to surpass the 11,000 Test run mark and the third International player behind Allan Border and Brian Lara.

63. Tendulkar is fourth on the list of players with most Test caps. Steve Waugh (168 Tests), Allan Border (158 Tests), Shane Warne (145 Tests) have appeared in more games than Tendulkar

64. Tendulkar has played the most number of Test Matches (144) for India (Kapil Dev is second with 131 Test appearances).

65. First to 25,000 international runs

66. Tendulkar's 25,016 runs in international cricket include 14,537 runs in ODI's, 10,469 Tests runs and 10 runs in the lone Twenty20 that India has played.

67. On December 10, 2005, Tendulkar made his 35th century in Tests at Delhi against Sri Lanka. He surpassed Sunil Gavaskar's record of 34 centuries to become the man with the most number of hundreds in Test cricket.

68. Tendulkar is the only player who has 150 wkts and more than 15000 runs in ODI

69. Tendulkar is the only player who has 40 wkts and more than 11000 runs in Tests

70. Only batsman to have 100 hundreds in the first class cricket

Federer through as Roddick falls

Defending champion Roger Federer moved into round four of the US Open with victory over Lleyton Hewitt but Andy Roddick was knocked out by John Isner.

Top seed Federer came from behind to beat Hewitt 4-6 6-3 7-5 6-4 and will next play Tommy Robredo or James Blake.

But Roddick, seeded fifth, was stunned 6-3 7-6 (7-3) 6-3 3-6 5-7 7-6 (7-5) by unseeded fellow American Isner in a thriller lasting just over four hours.

Fourth seed Novak Djokovic battled to a four-set win against Jesse Witten.

Fernando Verdasco hit back from a break down in the final set to edge out German veteran Tommy Haas 3-6 7-5 7-6 (10-8) 1-6 6-4 and he will now play Isner.

Russia's Nikolay Davydenko, who is still yet to drop a set in the tournament, was made to work for his 6-4 7-5 7-5 win over world number 161 Marco Chiudinelli.

The eighth seed will face Robin Soderling in the fourth round after the Swede saw off American Sam Querrey 6-2 7-5 6-7 (6-8) 6-1.

Federer, the world number one, struggled to find a way past a scampering Hewitt in the early stages of the match and saw his break in the sixth game immediately wiped out by one from the Australian.

After facing down two break points in his next service game, Federer surrendered on a third to hand the first set to his 28-year-old opponent.

But Federer suddenly found his range to break Hewitt to love in the fourth game of the second set before holding his serve in similarly emphatic fashion to compound his advantage.

The pair were finally separated in a tight third set as Hewitt, who had lost the pair's previous 13 meetings, sent a slice long to allow Federer to edge ahead for the first time.

Hewitt fought bravely in the final set as he broke back at 5-2 down, but he could only delay his demise.

Federer, who committed 59 unforced errors in victory, admitted that he could easily have missed out on a a place in the last 16.

"It could have gone either way," he said. "He had a good start and he believed maybe more today than in some of the other ones he played against me.

"The way I came through, I was very happy, because I knew that being down a set against Lleyton is always going to be a difficult situation for me to be in.

"Make one more mistake and I'm in the fifth set maybe, or I go down completely. So I was relieved coming through."

Djokovic, who had not dropped a set in his first two matches, struggled in the heat before eventually claiming a 6-7 (2-7) 6-3 7-6 (7-2) 6-4 win over American qualifier Witten.

The gap of 272 ranking places between the two was hard to detect as Witten, who had beaten 29th seed Igor Andreev in the first round, took the first set on a tie-break.

Djokovic may have expected to cruise to victory after levelling in the second but, backed by a partisan crowd, Witten battled on to keep the Serb on court for almost three and a half hours.

"Looking at that match, I don't know who was number four in the world," said Djokovic said. "It was a tough win. For either one it would have been well deserved."

Witten, 26, who had not won a tour-level match before the event, is expected to rise around 100 places in the next set of rankings on the back of his performances.

"It gives me some money to keep playing. So now I can afford to keep playing for the rest of the year, at least," he said.

"I don't know how good I am, so it's good to kind of see that I can play with these guys and I kind of belong a little bit here."

Standing between Djokovic and a place in the quarter-finals is 15th seed Radek Stepanek, who also made heavy weather of his third-round match before eventually overcoming Philipp Kohlschreiber 4-6 6-2 6-3 6-3.