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On This Day In 2007: Sachin Tendulkar Became First Batsman to Cross 15,000 ODI Runs Mark

  • Jun 29, 2021
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It was on this day, 14 years prior, when Sachin Tendulkar turned into the primary batsman throughout the entire existence of cricket to enlist 15,000 ODI runs. The Master Blaster accomplished the accomplishment against South Africa at Belfast in the second ODI of the three-match series. Pursuing 227 for the success, Tendulkar opened the batting for India and he proceeded to play a thump of 93 runs from 106 balls to go past the 15,000 run mark in 50-over cricket. Tendulkar's thump was studded with 13 fours and two sixes. The right-gave batsman was excused in the 32nd over of the innings, yet India figured out how to go over the line by six wickets.

Eventually, Yuvraj Singh and Dinesh Karthik directed India to triumph.

Tendulkar had made his introduction in Test cricket on November 15, 1989. Around the same time on December 18, he played his first ODI match.



The amazing cricketer has the most number of runs in the longest configuration of the game, accumulating 15,921 runs. En route, Tendulkar scored 51 Test hundreds of years, most by any player.

Things are the same in ODI cricket as Tendulkar on the rundown of most runs in this organization also. He has aggregated 18,426 runs in ODI which incorporates 49 tons.

Tendulkar addressed the country in six World Cups during his vocation that went on for a very long time. He was essential for the 2011 World Cup-winning crew.

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Viewed as quite possibly the most complete batsman throughout the entire existence of the game, Tendulkar holds practically all batting records which exists right now.

He made his worldwide presentation during a Test series againt most outstanding adversaries Pakistan in Karachi in November 1989 and after a month, he accepted his lady One-Day International (ODI) cap against a similar rival.

Hailed by numerous individuals as the ' God of Cricket', Tendulkar showed up for India in Test cricket and amassed 15,921 runs in the organization. He additionally played 462 ODIs for the Men dressed in Blue and scored 18,426 runs in it. In the mean time, his solitary appearance in the most brief arrangement of the game was during a T20I match against South Africa in 2006.

Tendulkar remaining parts the top run-scorer in the Test and ODI organizations of the game. The previous Indian opener likewise holds the record of most elevated number of hundreds of years in the global cricket- - a psyche desensitizing 100 tons.

On November 16, 2013, Tendulkar bid farewell to the worldwide vocation after a Test against the West Indies in his home state Mumbai. He crushed a familiar 74-run thump against the Caribbean side as India secured a success by an innings and 126 runs.


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