Sachin Tendulkar on Tuesday achieved another milestone as he became the first cricketer in the history of the game to cross 15,000-run mark in Test cricket.
Playing
in his 182nd match, Tendulkar reached the mark on the third day of the
first cricket Test against the West Indies when he scored his 28th run
in India's second innings with a single off leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo.
After
crossing the coveted milestone, the batting maestro looked up at the
heavens and acknowledged the standing ovation given by his teammates
from the dressing room as his partner Rahul Dravid congratulated him.
The West Indian players also came up after the completion of the over to congratulate the iconic batsman.
Tendulkar
was 35 runs short of 15,000 before this match and he scored seven in
the first innings before being adjidged leg-before off Fidel Edwards.
With
14,422 crowd cheering him, Tendulkar, who came in at the fall of
Virender Sehwag's wicket when the team total was 95 for two, played
cautiously with India needing 276 runs to win the match.
He hit just two fours after facing 76 balls to reach 28.
The
38-year-old Tendulkar, the world's most prolific batsman, now needs
just one hundred to complete a historic 100 international tons.
He has scored 51 Test tons and 48 ODI hundreds.
Rahul
Dravid, who was batting at the other end with Tendulkar, is the second
highest run-getter in Tests with 12,775 runs before this match while
Australian Ricky Ponting is third on the list with 12487 runs.
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