Third youngest debutant in Test cricket, aged 16 years and 205 days, made his Test debut against Pakistan on November 15, 1989. Total Test matches played by Sachin Tendulkar 198. Highest number of runs in Test Cricket: 15,837 runs. Batting Average: 53.86 First Indian batsman to surpass the 11,000 runs mark and the third batsman in the world to do so. After Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin is the second Indian batsman to score over 10,000 runs in Test cricket. Sachin, along with Brian Lara, is the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket. Both of them did it in just 195 innings. Sachin Tendulkar holds the world record for the maximum number of runs scored away from home. (8,705 runs away from home) First player to reach 12,000, 13,000, 14,000 and 15,000 Test runs. Sachin also holds the world record of 29 Centuries in Tests away from home. Sachin holds the record for scoring more than 1000 Test runs in a calendar year. Sachin has done it six times-2010 (1562 runs), 2008 (1063 runs), 2002 (1392 runs), 1999 (1088 runs), 2001 (1003 runs) and 1997 (1000 runs). Highest number of Test centuries in world cricket history. He has scored 51 Test centuries. He has the highest number of 150 plus scores in Test cricket. He was the youngest to score a century when he scored his maiden century in 1990. Sachin scored five centuries before the age of 20. This continues to be a World record till date. Sachin was the third batsman in the history of Test cricket to have scored a century against all ten Test playing nations. Soon ,he will Become THE FIRST MAN TO HAVE PLAYED 200 Test Matches
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