As he recently achieved
- First and only cricketer who played over two decades (20 years) in modern cricket.
- One and only batsman who scored 30,000 international runs (both Test and ODI).
- One and only batsman who scored 17,000 ODI runs.
- One of the two batsmen who scored 150+ runs in ODI cricket most (four) times along with Sanath Jayasuriya ( Sri Lanka).
Records waiting to break..........soon
- He is just 83 runs away to be first to score 13,000 runs in Test Match cricket, as he is already scored 12,317 runs before the last test match in the ongoing series (2009/10) against Sri Lanka at his home ground Mumbai. We may watch him breaking this record in this test match only.
- And another one is that he is just seven test matches short to hold the record of "Cricketer who played most test matches", which is now held by the Steve Waugh ,Australia. Steve Waugh played 168 test matches, Tendulkar played 162 matches (including the last test match in the ongoing series (2009/10) against Sri Lanka at his home ground Mumbai).