Ahmedabad: 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. He ended his 160th Test here sitting on 12877 runs, with 43 hundreds and 53 half centuries at an average of 54.79.
The 36-year-old batting stalwart went on to score his 43rd Test hundred and remained not out exactly on 100 to help India draw the match after they had conceded a first innings lead of 334 runs to the Lankans.
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