Sachin Tendulkar crossed yet another milestone on Friday by becoming the first batsman to score 30,000 runs in international cricket.
Batting in the second innings on the final day of the first Test against Sri Lanka, the batting maestro stroked his 35th run to achieve the latest landmark. Tendulkar, who recently completed 20 years in international cricket, is playing his 160th Test match for India.
Tendulkar has scored 17,178 runs at an average of 44 in 436 one-day internationals and 10 runs in the lone Twenty20 match that he has played, against South Africa.
Some of great performances of him...
Some of great performances of him...
And there are some interesting about Tendulkar here for you...
- Sachin seriously loves his motorsport. In 2002 he was given a brand-spanking new Ferrari 360 Modena by six-time World Champion Michael Schumacher at Silverstone!
- Sachin made a special appearance in the Bollywood film "Stumped" in 2003 as himself.
- Sachin Tendulkar got the name Sachin because his family members were all huge fans of the legendary music director Sachin Dev Burman (SD Burman).
- Tendulkar's idol is the American Tennis superstar-John McEnore.
- Like loads of other cricketers, Sachin is pretty superstitious - he'll always put on his left pad before his right whenever he's getting padded up.
- Sachin's wife Anjali tends to become nervous while he bats, whereas his brother has become so superstitious that he allows the family members to only watch the match recording.
- Sachin was the first ever foreign cricketer to play for Yorkshire in 1992. Before then, only players who were born in the county were ever allowed to play for Yorkshire. But the rules were changed and in came a 19-year-old Sachin, scoring 1000 runs at an average of 46.
- Sachin was the first batsman ever to be given out by the third umpire when he was run out against South Africa inthe first Test in Durban back in 1992.
- Sachin Tendulkar got his first one day international century after playing 78 matches and five years of internationalcricket.

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