Mar 18, 2009

Highlights of Tendulkar's ODI (One Day Internationals) career


    * Highest ODI run-scorer in the world with 16,007 aggregate ODI runs (as of 05-Feb-2008)

    * 41 ODI centuries - highest in the world

    * Played most number of ODIs (409) (as of 05-Feb-2008)

    * Played most number of consecutive ODI matches (185 matches from Sharjah, 1989/90 to Sharjah, 1997/98)

    * Most Man of the Match (53!) awards

    * Appeared on the most grounds (90 different grounds)

    * Most ODI runs by any batsman in any given calendar year - 1,894 runs (34 Matches Avg :65.31  SR :102.15) in 1998

    * Most Centuries by a player in one year - 9 ODI centuries in 1998

    * Most centuries vs. Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.

    * Holds the record for scoring 1,000 ODI runs in a calendar year. He has done it six times - 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2003.

    * First and the fastest cricketer to cross 10,000-run mark, 11,000-run mark, 12,000-run mark, 13,000 run-mark and 14,000 run-mark in ODIs. The only player to have scored over 16,000 runs till-date

    * Only cricketer to cross 14,000-run mark in ODIs

    * One of only six players to pass 10,000 runs in ODIs (Sanath Jayasuriya, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Brian Lara, and Inzamam ul Haq are the others)

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

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