Test Cricket
Game Appearances:
- On his Test debut, Sachin Tendulkar was the third youngest debutant (16y 205d). Mushtaq Mohammad (15y 124d) and Aaqib Javed (16y 189d) debuted in Test matches younger to Tendulkar. Since then, there have been 2 players who were younger than Sachin on their Test Cricket debut: Hasan Raza - Pakistan (14y 227d), the current youngest debutant, and Mohammad Sharif - Bangladesh (15y 128d).
- Tendulkar has played the most number of Test Matches (166) for India (Kapil Dev and Rahul Dravid are second with 131 Test appearances each).
- Tendulkar is second in the list of players with most Test caps at 166. Only Steve Waugh (168 Tests) has appeared in more games than Tendulkar.
Runs Scored:
- Highest run scorer in the history of Test cricket with 13447 Test runs.
- Career Average (1989–2010, 166 Tests, 13,447 runs) at 55.56
- Became the first Indian to surpass the 11,000 Test run mark and the third International player behind Allan Border and Brian Lara. Lara took 213 innings, Sachin 223 and Border 259.
- Second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to make over 10,000 runs in Test matches.[5]
- Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket history. Both of them achieved this in 195 innings.
- Sachin Tendulkar (7429) world record of runs scored in Tests away from home.
- First player to reach 12,000-13,000 Test runs.
- Tendulkar has five calendar years with 1000 or more runs - 2008(1063), 2002 (1392 runs), 1999 (1088 runs), 2001 (1003 runs) and 1997 (1000 runs).Gavaskar is the only other Indian with four seasons of 1000+ runs. Only Tendulkar, Matthew Hayden, Ricky Ponting and Brian Lara have five seasons with 1000 or more runs in Test cricket.
