da bet vitoria： Sachin Tendulkar passed another milestone during the third day of thesecond Test against Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club
Staff Reporter18-Jun-2001Sachin Tendulkar passed another milestone during the third day of thesecond Test against Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club. When he struckArnoldus Blignaut for his third boundary to move from 18 to 22,Tendulkar surpassed Dilip Vengsarkar’s tally of 6868 runs to becomeIndia’s second highest Test run getter (in 32 fewer matches and 60fewer innings).Only Sunil Gavaskar with 10,122 lies beyond the pale, for now.Tendulkar was caught at gully by Grant Flower off Heath Streak for 69to close the match with an aggregate of 6919 runs at 57.18. In theprocess, Tendulkar also moved into 23rd place worldwide, the two namesimmediately above him being Sir Leonard Hutton (6971) and Sir DonaldBradman (6996). Here is a list of India’s top 15:
Name Mat I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50SM Gavaskar 125 214 16 10122 236* 51.12 34 45SR Tendulkar 84 135 14 6919 217 57.18 25 28DB Vengsarkar 116 185 22 6868 166 42.13 17 35M Azharuddin 99 147 9 6215 199 45.03 22 21GR Viswanath 91 155 10 6080 222 41.93 14 35N Kapil Dev 131 184 15 5248 163 31.05 8 27M Amarnath 69 113 10 4378 138 42.50 11 24RJ Shastri 80 121 14 3830 206 35.79 11 12R Dravid 45 78 8 3798 200* 54.25 9 19PR Umrigar 59 94 8 3631 223 42.22 12 14VL Manjrekar 55 92 10 3208 189* 39.12 7 15NS Sidhu 51 78 2 3202 201 42.13 9 15CG Borde 55 97 11 3061 177* 35.59 5 18SC Ganguly 43 73 6 2831 173 42.25 7 14MAK Pataudi 46 83 3 2793 203* 34.91 6 16