Tendulkar in 10,000-club
AFP, Kolkata
India's Sachin Tendulkar on Wednesday became the fifth batsman in the history of cricket to complete 10,000 Test runs, achieving the feat in the second Test against Pakistan here.Tendulkar, who turns 32 next month, achieved the milestone in his 122nd Test when he flicked a single off medium-pacer Abdul Razzaq to move to 27. He went on to make 52 -- taking his career tally to 10,025 -- when he was caught behind by wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal off leg-spinner Shahid Afridi. Tendulkar raised his bat and looked skywards as partner Rahul Dravid and the Pakistan players congratulated him. Former Australian captain Allan Border tops the list with 11,174 runs in 156 Tests. Australian Steve Waugh (10,927), India's Sunil Gavaskar (10,122) and West Indian Brian Lara (10,094) are the other batsmen in the elite club. Tendulkar, who made his Test debut against Pakistan at Karachi in 1989, is also one short of surpassing Gavaskar's world record tally of 34 centuries. He holds the record of most runs in one-day internationals, having scored 13,497 in 342 matches with 37 hundreds.
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