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Sachin tendulkar total runs

*** Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for being the first batsman to score 200 runs (147 balls 25x4 3x6) in an ODI against South Africa. It was the highest score by any batsman for a while, before Virender Sehwag scored 219 (149 balls, 25x4 7x6) against West Indies in the 4th ODI of the 2011 home series against them. ***

*** Most runs: Sachin has scored 18426 runs in 452 innings of odi cricket at an astonishing average of 44.83 and blistering strike rate of 86.24.He is the leading run scorer in the ODI format of the game and the only player ever to cross the 14,000-15,000-16,000-17,000 and 18,000 run marks. *** Read more.

Sachin Tendulkar | Total Runs | Scored | Test Matches | Records | Profile

Once upon a time an Indian travelling in a plane was asked this question by a co-passenger. What do you do for a living? I play chess, the Indian replied.  Nonsense, quipped the fellow passenger. Only Vishwanathan Anand does that. Anand smiled and kept quiet, much later he revealed this incident to a friendly journo on a TV  show. For Sachin Tendulkar, after 200 matches for India and a career spanning almost quarter of a century, no one shall be able to say that.Read more...How many runs has sachin tendulkar scored