World cup-sachin record

NEW DELHI, June 8 : Indian run machine sachin tendulkar today crossed two major milestones in his electrifying cricket career when he bec...

NEW DELHI, June 8 : Indian run machine sachin tendulkar today crossed two major milestones in his electrifying cricket career when he became the second highest scorer in the world cup and crossed 8000 runs in one day internationals in the super league tie against pakistan at old trafford.

The master blaster achieved another landmark of becoming the second indian after skipper mohammed azharuddin to score 8,000 runs in one-day cricket in his 217th match. Azhar crossed 9,000 mark in one dayers in the current world cup to become the highest run getter.

Sachin playing his 21st match, joined the elite group of legendry cricketers javed miandad of pakistan 1083 runs in 33 matches and west indian vivian richards 1013 runs in 23 matches, who were the two other batsmen to have scored more than 1000 runs in this quadrennial event. He overtook richard8217;s tally when he hit azhar mahmood for a four. More uni gv vk cs1700 mumbai 17 00

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Sachin in the process became the fastest player to score 1,000 runs in world cup achieving it in his 20th innings.

Sachin in his previous 14 innings in the last two world cups had scored 806 runs8211;283 in seven innings in 1992 and 523 in seven innings in 19968211;and had emerged as the highest run getter in the last edition.

The master blaster, who started the world cup needing 194 runs to achieve this milestone, scored 28 against south africa in india8217;s pipe opener and lifted the team8217;s sagging morale with a forget-me-not innings of 140 against kenya, which brought india back to winning ways after the two earlier losses.

Though sachin, batting down the order, managed to score only two against sri lanka as saurav ganguly and rahul dravid ran amok during their world record 318 run partnership, the master-blaster chipped in with 22 runs in the last league match against england, whose loss saw india gain a berth in the super six phase.

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But much to the disappointment of one and all, sachin fell to a rare duck against australia in the super league match against australia the other day.

He has so far scored 22 centuries, including 21 while opening the innings, with 143 against australia at sharjah being the highest. He has also 43 half centuries to his credit. Sachin also became the faster ever to score 8,000 runs scoring in his 217th match.

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