http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 in South Africa: Sachin Tendulkar all set for another milestone
The list of records never seems to end when it comes to the little batting maestro. Sachin Tendulkar will join Sri Lanka’s Sanath Jayasuriya as the most capped One Day International player with his 444th ODI appearance against
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 at Johannesburg on Saturday.
The Indian batting prodigy, who also holds the world record for being the leading run scorer, will be expecting a result better than the opening ODI at Durban where the tourists faced a 135-run drubbing at the hands of Proteas.
In the Durban game, Tendulkar could score only 7 runs before he mistimed a pull shot off Lonwabo Tsotsobe that landed safely in the hands of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dale-c52110 Steyn. But in his record 444th One Day International, the 37-year-old flamboyant
batsman must be keen to give a stellar performance to make it a memorable event.
With a tally of 17,605 runs, Tendulkar holds the world record for most number of runs in ODIs. He also holds a record 14,692 Test runs. With 51 Test and 46 ODI hundreds, Tendulkar holds the world record of scoring the highest number of centuries
in both formats of the game.
Tendulkar has crossed the 1000-run mark in a single ODI calendar seven times. Sachin also holds the record of scoring maximum number of runs in one calendar year when he scored a staggering 1,894 runs in 1998.
The performance of Indian batting star in ICC World Cups has also been tremendous. He was the leading run scorer in the 1996 and 2003 events.
On 24 February, 2010, the 37-year-old http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Maharashtra-c811 batsman became the first-ever cricketer to score a double century in an ODI.
In the absence of regular openers, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Murali-Vijay-c78035 with a task to score big as the tourists look to square the
five-match series which South Africa currently lead by 1-0.
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