India's top batsman Sachin Tendulkar [Images] became the highest Test-run scorer in Mohali on Friday after scoring the 15 runs he required to surpass Brian Lara's [Images] record, in the first innings of the second Test against Australia [Images].
Tendulkar scored three runs after tea to move on to 16, giving him a career record of 11,955 runs, which eclipsed the previous mark of former West Indies [Images] captain Brian Lara.
Lara had scored 11,953 runs before retiring from international cricket in 2007. He went past former Australia captain Allan Border's [Images] tally of 11,174 runs in Adelaide in 2005.
Here is how the record of highest run-scorer in Tests has changed hands (from 1000 runs):
Player | Runs | Date |
A Shrewsbury (Eng) | 1000 | 17 July 1893 |
J Darling (Aus) | 1278 | 23 Jan 1902 |
AC MacLaren (Eng) | 1297 | 03 Mar 1902 |
C Hill (Aus) | 1495 | 24 Jul 1902 |
AC MacLaren (Eng) | 1518 | 26 Jul 1902 |
C Hill (Aus) | 1542 | 12 Aug 1902 |
JB Hobbs (Eng) | 3413 | 22 Dec 1924 |
WR Hammond (Eng) | 5411 | 26 Jun 1937 |
MC Cowdrey (Eng) | 7250 | 29 Nov 1971 |
GS Sobers (WI) | 7460 | 26 Mar 1972 |
G Boycott (Eng) | 8033 | 23 Dec 1981 |
SM Gavaskar (Ind) | 8115 | 13 Nov 1983 |
AR Border (Aus) | 10123 | 26 Feb 1993 |
BC Lara (WI) | 11175 | 25 Mar 2006 |
SR Tendulkar (Ind) | 11955* | 17 Oct 2008 |
Note: Sachin Tendulkar was batting on 15 at the time of updating this statistic.
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