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Everytime I listen to or read Sachin Tendulkar, Indian run machine never fails to urge youngsters to pursue their dreams. Hard to digest he does so, cause success came his way utterly easily, making his international debut at tender age of 18 and scoring centuries on his Deodhar and Duleep trophy debuts..

I recall reading a mega Sachin Tendulkar interview over a decade and half ago in a magazine called "Cricket Samrat", in which he revealed he only drinks champagnes, that too preciously on celebrations, cause he wanted to play for a long time.

Today when this most popular Indian is close to climax of his career, I finally digest what drive he has had throughout his life ~ to win as many matches for India as he can and in process, break all possible records.

Tendulkar has achieved his dreams, with the exception of a world cup may be for which his desire continues. Here's a summary of his statistical achievements :-

Most runs in career : Sachin is past his 18,000th run and going strong in one day career while in tests, Indian is past 15000 runs already. Sachin's nearest rival = Sanath Jayasuriya of Sri Lanka and Ricky Ponting of Australia, are hovering around 13k runs while Ponting is almost 2k runs behind him in tests. more : Sachin vs Ponting.

Most test century : 51 tons in tests, 11 ahead of his nearest rival Jacques Kallis and 12 ahead of Ricky Ponting. Mahela Jayawardene (28) of Sri Lanka and Jacques Kallis (38) of South Africa may break this record that Sachin Tendulkar holds.

Most ODI century : 48 tons in one dayers, 17 clear of second best batsman = Ricky Ponting who has 29. Sanath Jayasuriya (28) and Chris Gayle (19) are also in the race but may not touch the master before ending their respective careers.

Highest individual ODI score : Sachin Tendulkar is first and only man to date to score a double century = 200 not out against South Africa at Gwalior. Tendulkar's one day hundred came off just 147 balls, with 25 fours and 3 sixes. Second best ODI individual score is 194, held jointly by Saeed Anwar of Pakistan and Charls Coventry of Zimbabwe who was unbeaten.

Highest ODI partnership : 331 with Rahul Dravid against New Zealand at Hyderabad on 8 November 1999. This was for 2nd wicket. Tendulkar also features in biggest oneday partnerships for 3rd wkt, also with Rahul Dravid = 237* vs Kenya at Bristol on 23 May 1999. Tendulkar also has most runs by a pair in the format = 8227 runs with Sourav Ganguly (6609 runs were as opening pair). They also made 26 century partnerships together.

Most ODI runs in a calender year : Sachin Tendulkar made 1894 runs in year 1998, from 34 one day internationals (33 innings). second best is Sourav Ganguly with 1767 runs from 41 ODI in year 1999. Sachin made 9 hundreds that year, which is most by any batsman in any year!

Most ODI fifties : Tendulkar has 93 half centuries, 14 more than next most by Ricky Ponting and 3rd most Jacques Kallis who has 78 oneday fifties.

Other significant records by Sachin Tendulkar

**Most runs in one day internationals against one perticular team. Tendulkar has made 3005 runs against highly respectable team Australia from his 67 ODIs against them over the years. Tendulkar has 9 ODI century against Australia which is also the most by any player against one team.

**Sachin Tendulkar has most scores over 150 in onedayers (five) and also owns record getting out in nineties on most occassions (18 times). Tendulkar is dismissed for 99 thrice, which is also maximum by anyone.

**Sachin Tendulkar holds record of most fours in a one day innings = 25 as well as in career (close to 2000). he also holds test record with 1734+ baundaries.

**In one day internationals, Sachin Tendulkar has been fastest to reach 10,000, 11,000, 12,000, 13,000, 14000, 15,000, 16,000 and 17,000 runs in career. Tendulkar did it in his 259th, 276th, 300th, 321th, 350th, 377th, 399th and 435th innings respectively.

**Sachin Tendulkar is only batsman to do a double of a century and 4 wkts in a one day match, with his 141 and 4 wkts for 38 runs against Australia back in year 1998.

**Only man to do triple of 10,000 runs, 100 wkts and 100 catches in ODIs.