Sachin Tendulkar Records: Complete, Updated Career & Stats Hub

Cricket remembers the sound first. The bat meeting ball with a clean, sweet crack that drew crowds forward in their seats and froze fielders into statues. Sachin Tendulkar’s records are not just a stack of numbers; they trace the modern game’s transformation, they map how an entire nation learned to measure its afternoons by a boy’s balance and the distance of his drives. Ask bowlers who lived the era and you’ll hear things no scorecard can capture: the hush before the first stride, the switch of tempo after a feel-out over, the crushing inevitability once he got past the early exchanges. The statistics explain the legend; the innings make it breathe.

This is a professional, all-format, all-context hub of Sachin Tendulkar’s records—ODI, Test, World Cup, by opposition, by venue, with comparisons and context that matter. It is built to be complete and human: highly structured, but with the texture of how the runs were made, why particular milestones still carry weight, and how the benchmarks shift while some refuse to budge.

Career overview and key milestones

From prodigy to standard-bearer, Tendulkar’s arc bends across more than two decades of international cricket. He walked in as a boy facing seasoned fast bowling without flinch or fuss, then gradually took control of formats, surfaces, and situations until the game itself leaned around him. His ledger is the broadest ever assembled by a batter:

Most international runs: 34,357 (Test 15,921; ODI 18,426; T20I 10).
Most international centuries: 100 (Test 51; ODI 49).
Most Test matches: 200.
Most ODI matches: 463.
First ODI double hundred.
Longest ODI career span among top players, stretching across eras of one ball per end and two new balls, white kits and color, bilaterals and global tournaments.
First to 30,000 international runs.
Man-of-the-Match and Man-of-the-Series tallies that set the gold standard for day-in, day-out impact.

The headliners are obvious; the hidden craft is what elevates them. Tendulkar could run a chase like a watchmaker, each gap threaded for twos, every field change met with an alternate scoring route. He could also crest a bowling attack—Desert Storm in Sharjah remains the masterclass in manipulating a tournament table—without surrendering control. He adapted, endlessly. When surfaces slowed, he went deep; when bounce stiffened, he let the ball come and hit late; when teams doubled down with deep square cover, he rolled the wrists and borrowed singles behind square. The records only happened because the technique could travel, and because the mind stayed open.

ODI records (complete overview with context)

Tendulkar’s ODI career rebooted what was possible at the top of the order. He drove the conversation on tempo without batting like a slogger. The innovations were subtle: earlier accesses to mid-wicket without losing shape, lofted on-drives hit with the full face, quick shifts between strike rotation and boundary bursts, and a repeated willingness to bat through an innings when conditions asked for it.

Core ODI career stats

Matches: 463
Innings: 452
Runs: 18,426
Batting average: 44.8
Strike rate: 86.2
Hundreds: 49
Fifties: 96
Highest score: 200*
Most fours in ODIs: 2,016
Man of the Match (ODI): 62
Man of the Series (ODI): 15

Defining ODI records and achievements

Most ODI runs: Stands alone. The number itself is a continent. What matters: those runs came in every role—opener, anchor, chaser, tone-setter, finisher. The spectrum is the record.
First double hundred in men’s ODIs: The barrier-breaker. Perfectly paced—accumulation, risk distribution, and then clean acceleration once the platform was set. It changed how teams valued the opener’s ceiling.
Desert Storm, Sharjah: Two innings in three days that bent a tri-series. The first, a blistering 143 that turned a sandstorm delay into a run-rate equation reimagined in real time; the second, a final-winning 134 that confirmed the psyche shift. Australia knew he’d taken the wheel.
Most ODI runs in a single year by any player: 1,894. A summit season that fused volume with quality. It looked relentless from the outside; from within, it was a lesson in energy management and rhythm.
Most ODI hundreds in a single year: 9. The peaks came thick, but the real trick was how he protected the troughs. A shortened backlift here, a late cut there, rebuilding form in public.
Man-of-the-Match and Man-of-the-Series dominance: 62 and 15 respectively. Those are impact metrics; they measure nights when one performer tilted an entire game or tournament. Tendulkar did it across conditions, with and without big-name support.
Partnerships: With Sourav Ganguly, he formed the most prolific opening pair in ODI history, stacking 8,227 runs together with 26 century stands. The template—left-right, angles vs lines, aerial power vs threaded gaps—became the prototype for a generation.
Highest partnership for India in ODIs: 331 with Rahul Dravid, a teardown of bowling plans that turned a conventional one-day middle into a marathon. The striking element: the control never loosened.

Tactical notes worth remembering in ODIs

He was one of the earliest masters of the middle overs when two men sat on the boundary. Instead of waiting it out, he met it with the dab, the back-cut, and the one-bounce loft over long-off that forced captains to pull a fielder up.
He could play entirely risk-free for a half-hour and still reach a-run-a-ball by over forty, such was his capacity to find boundaries with low-risk strokes.
He was comfortable changing grip pressure to adapt to the white ball’s shift from hooping swing to seam skid. This preserved timing while many batter’s bats grew heavy.

Test records (the long-game supremacy)

Test cricket asked for time and story arcs; Tendulkar wrote both. He not only made big numbers; he edited how to make them overseas. When the bounce rose, he played late. When pace nipped, he narrowed his arc and held the seam. On turning surfaces, he used the depth of the crease and unspooled sweeps only when he’d got the spinners bowling to his rhythm.

Core Test career stats

Matches: 200
Runs: 15,921
Batting average: 53.8
Hundreds: 51
Fifties: 68
Highest score: 248*

Defining Test records and achievements

Most Test runs: The ultimate grindstone record. He beat generations by colonizing away surfaces. He didn’t merely cash in at home; he took the toolkit on tour and kept refining it.
Most Test hundreds for an era: 51. The hallmark isn’t just the count; it’s the distribution—series-savers, series-setters, and top-order centuries that out-lasted fresh balls and new plans.
Milestone innings that explain the technique:
- 119* at Manchester: teenage defiance under cloud and seam, a draw preserved by leaving better than colleagues twice his age.
- 114 at Perth: bounce high enough to rearrange helmets; he played under it and through it, showing the rest of the lineup the hitting zones.
- 241* at Sydney: a masterstroke of ego-control. He put the cover drive away entirely, went straight and square, and ran Australia ragged. It remains one of the finest examples of discipline in service of a team plan.
- 136 at Chennai vs Pakistan: an epic on a turning pitch, played with a pained back and an unbothered mind. It ended in defeat, but it taught a generation the difference between batting well and batting decisively.
Most Test matches: 200. Not just longevity—durability under spotlight. Each new opponent had a plan. Each new plan needed an answer.
Foreign mastery: He scored heavily in Australia, England, South Africa, and New Zealand. The key was how quickly he identified a surface’s scoring percentage areas plus an early over set—who to target, when to sit in.
Lord’s anomaly: No Test century at Lord’s. He has one of the all-time great careers without ticking that box. It adds an odd poetry—one dome that never bent.

International centuries: the distribution and the big picture

The headline is clean: 100 international centuries. 51 in Tests, 49 in ODIs. What matters underneath:

Home vs away: A heavyweight share away from home in both formats, underpinning the “greatest traveler” argument.
Oppositions: He loved playing Australia. In Tests, he ransacked them more than any other side, and in ODIs he kept them in reach even at their absolute peak. He also piled up big stacks against Sri Lanka and found inventive ways past South Africa’s high-skill pace.
Tempo of scoring: Many centuries were built in gears. When his early-play indicator—a clipped on-drive or a back-foot punch through point—came out well, he could accelerate. If that first timing check misfired, he played within himself until the body remembered.
Sequence resilience: He managed lean runs without audible panic. Often, the century after a quiet patch was technically orthodox, as if to remind himself of the blueprint before racing again.

World Cup records (1992–2011 era context, without the calendar)

World Cups were Tendulkar’s canvas under floodlights and afternoon glare. He delivered volume, consistency, and decisive innings in pressure games.

Core World Cup stats

Matches: 45
Runs: 2,278
Batting average: 56.9
Hundreds: 6
Fifties: 15
Highest score: 152
World Cup Man of the Match awards: 9
Man of the Tournament: 1 edition
Most runs in a single edition by any player: 673

Key notes

Most World Cup runs: A record built across multiple editions, formats, and roles. He opened in difficult conditions, batted three when the team needed glue, and always found a way to give India a platform.
Most runs in a single edition: 673. It is the Everest of tournament batting. Every chase felt smaller when he was in; every total felt thirty runs heavier when he anchored.
Man of the Tournament in India’s runners-up campaign that year: It wasn’t just tallies. It was momentum management—fast starts when the ball swung, then measured partnerships as the ball aged.
Closing arc: Part of India’s title run on home soil later. He didn’t own that final in terms of runs, but the tournament’s space glowed with his presence. Bowlers planned for him first; that allowed others to breathe.

Sachin Tendulkar records vs opposition

Australia got the best of Sachin—and he gave them the best of himself. The rivalry traveled across continents, formats, and captaincies. He scored heavily against their quicks, dismantled their plans in both Tests and ODIs, and built some of his most iconic innings under their gaze.

vs Australia

Test centuries vs Australia: 11, the highest for him against any side. The distribution includes famous knocks in Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, and at home on true turners.
ODI runs vs Australia: more than three thousand, with nine hundreds in colored clothing. Sharjah’s Desert Storm double defined the rivalry; Sydney and Melbourne saw masterclass chases, and home venues saw him adjust to two new balls by timing the pick-up lofts straight.
Tactical note: He often neutralized Shane Warne with that hot-knife shot through mid-wicket, after first sweeping him to break the length. Against McGrath or Lee, he waited for tiny errors—width outside off or marginally full—and punished them with timing rather than muscle.

vs Pakistan

Against Pakistan, Tendulkar’s records read like a scriptwriter’s wish list: high drama, high skill. Abrasive reverse swing at full tilt, packed in-fields, ten thousand heartbeats in stadiums that shook.

Memorable Tests: The fighting 136 in Chennai on a turner; a teenage 59 in his first series draw; several Rameez Raja-era and Wasim-Waqar-era battles where the forward press and the late cut were his lifelines.
ODIs: He kept the high line well—cover drives kept honest by the straight check-drive and that little steering punch behind point. Saeed Ajmal and Saqlain Mushtaq tested him with doosras; he answered with depth and an inventive late sweep.
Tactical note: He treated reverse swing like a second new ball—kept the blade vertical, watched the shiny side, and refused to open the front shoulder early.

vs England

England brought seam and cloud. Tendulkar brought soft hands and a bat that met the ball as late as the conditions demanded.

Tests: Big runs at Manchester and beyond; several centuries came by expanding from a tight core—punch through cover, leave outside off, then open up backward of point.
ODIs: He often defanged early swing with singles into the leg side, then used the oval’s slope and square boundaries to pick safer fours. He adapted to white-ball seam across venues by borrowing time on the back foot.

vs Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka saw a heavy share of Tendulkar’s ODI centuries. Attacking off-spinners on slow pitches became an art in his hands, especially in the middle overs, where he would force fielders wider and then milk twos.

Key note: He played Muralitharan with enormous respect early in the innings, using the depth of the crease and the sweep from outside off. Once set, he took mid-on and mid-off on with vertical-bat lofts that kept the risk slim.

vs South Africa

Pace, bounce, cut. South Africa asked the hard technical questions, especially at Johannesburg and Centurion. Tendulkar’s answers were classical: head still, hands late, runs through the V and square.

Notable knocks: A giant ODI hundred in Cape Town alongside the Dravid stand that re-set scoreboard possibilities; a standout Test hundred at Cape Town when wickets fell in clumps around him.
Tactical detail: His pick-up shots straight back past the bowler were crucial here; anything cross-batted risked the extra bounce.

vs New Zealand

Movement both ways, and a blue-green outfield that rewarded timing. He collected quietly effective hundreds in both formats and ensured India’s batting held shape in Hamilton and Auckland.

Tactical note: He favored the open face here, letting the ball slide to third man or backward point early. Then, when bowlers chased him fuller, he put mid-off in play.

vs West Indies

West Indies across generations brought a blend of heritage pace and modern rebuild. Tendulkar built big hundreds at home and significant contributions away, negotiating old-school bounce and newer, abrasive variations.

Tactical note: High-elbow drives and the back-foot punch were central. He used the pull sparingly early, saving it for when bowlers missed short by half a yard.

vs Bangladesh and Zimbabwe

These were platforms to maximize format-specific goals: time in the middle during multi-nation events, rhythm-building after injury, and occasionally large hundreds that anchored net run-rate conversations.

Tactical note: He often scored deep hundreds here, batting through until the 40th over in ODIs to ensure the death overs had a base. In Tests, he expanded his range, bringing out aerial releases over mid-on that he otherwise avoided early.

Venue-wise records and stories

Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

His home stadium. He didn’t gorge on hundreds here the way some assumed he would; the weight of home occasionally pressed too hard. But he produced classical innings replete with timing and the knowledge of exactly where the outfield runs quick. His farewell passages at this ground remain among the most emotionally charged scenes in cricket.

Sharjah Cricket Stadium

A desert enclave that became a shrine to the audacious. Desert Storm is more than an event; it is a method. Tendulkar figured out atmospherics, dew, and the way the ball slipped onto the bat under lights. He also decoded how to maximize impact in must-win run-rate scenarios—punishing precisely the bowlers whose overs mattered most for his opponents.

Sydney Cricket Ground

A coliseum for technique. The 241* here is the thesis of discipline; another century in a different series at the ground was a template in batting both sides of the wicket with a still head. He learned to ride bounce and ignore the cover drive when the risk-reward balance skewed.

Lord’s, London

No international hundred here, a quirk that sits strange beside the ledger. But he threaded plenty of luminous shots at this ground and impacted limited-overs games memorably. The story of his career doesn’t need this tick; it reads richer with this tiny omission.

Chennai (Chepauk)

A ground of high drama. He produced a mountainous 136 against Pakistan with a back that barely cooperated, and other knocks that managed turning tracks with hands that stayed soft even when spinners looped the ball into the breeze. The Chennai crowd returned the favor with some of the most generous ovations he ever received.

Eden Gardens, Kolkata

He played anchor here in several ODIs, letting others go around him at a ground that loves theatre. In Tests, he added bricks to long Indian wins, using the square boundaries with back-foot precision.

Partnerships and awards (MOM/MOS)

Partnerships

With Sourav Ganguly: The most prolific ODI opening pair in cricket history—8,227 runs with 26 century stands. The geometry worked magically: left-right disruption, strength against different angles, and complementary scoring areas. Ganguly took the airways square of the wicket; Tendulkar threaded the off side and drove straight. Bowlers had no single lane to bowl.
With Rahul Dravid: A record 331-run ODI stand that married silk to steel. Dravid’s tempo lifted; Tendulkar’s range glowed. This wasn’t slogging; it was seamstress work.
With VVS Laxman: Tests are where this pair hummed—quiet escalations, edges softened by soft hands, and long afternoons that gently squeezed oppositions.
With Virender Sehwag: Test partnerships that felt like soundtracks. Sehwag destroyed lengths; Tendulkar tidied the edges and then danced into high gear after sessions.

Awards

Most Man of the Match awards in ODIs: 62.
Most Man of the Series awards in ODIs: 15.
World Cup Man of the Tournament: once, during the edition in which he also set the single-edition run record.

These are not just baubles; they’re a map of sustained match control. A MoM reflects a game swung or secured; MoS reflects weeks of influence.

IPL and domestic highlights

IPL

IPL century: 1, a clean 100* that showed how his white-ball batting aged into the modern era without losing identity. Shorter backlift, same sweet spot.
Orange Cap once: He topped the season charts, running a batting clinic without brute force reliance. His lofted straight drive remained a signature in the powerplay.
As mentor and icon later, he helped shape young Mumbai batters into expansive-yet-sensible white-ball players.

Domestic cricket

The folklore begins with debut hundreds for Mumbai in Ranji, Duleep, and Irani Trophy—the triple stamp that said professional attacks were not going to intimidate him.
He matured in Mumbai’s school of batsmanship: long nets, neat fundamentals, ruthless hunger. Domestic seasons let him recalibrate between international bursts, bringing any technical experiments back into the fold in front of smaller crowds and familiar clatter.

Sachin Tendulkar achievements that still define the conversation

The 100 international hundreds. It hasn’t been matched.
Most international runs across formats. Still the summit.
Most Test runs. Intact.
Most ODI runs. Intact.
First ODI double hundred. Others have joined the club, but he broke the glass.
Most ODI matches. Intact.
Most ODI Man of the Match awards and Man of the Series awards. Intact.
World Cup: most runs overall and most in a single edition. Overall record still his; single-edition mark still the peak.

Records still held vs broken: quick tracker

Record	Status	Notes
Most international runs	Held	34,357 across formats
Most international centuries	Held	100 total
Most Test runs	Held	15,921
Most ODI runs	Held	18,426
ODI centuries	Overtaken	Virat Kohli moved past 49; Sachin remains second
World Cup most runs overall	Held	2,278
World Cup most centuries	Overtaken	Rohit Sharma moved to the top; Sachin second with 6
First ODI double hundred	Historic milestone	Many since; he was the breaker
Most ODI MoM	Held	62
Most ODI MoS	Held	15
Most ODI matches	Held	463
Most ODI fours	Held	2,016

Sachin Tendulkar world cup records: how they were made

Powerplay navigation: In editions when fielding restrictions were tighter and early swing stronger, he often began with impeccable leaves and soft-handed dabs. A 30 off 40 start didn’t worry him if the surface demanded it. He rolled into the middle overs still fresh, and then accelerated once spinners lost their length.
Spin management: He read trajectory early. Against off-spin he played late and behind square until the bowler went fuller; then he lofted over straight and mid-wicket. Against leg-spin he sliced backward of point, a shot that forced captains into awkward fields.
Knockout temperament: He rarely got trapped by narrative. Semifinals and finals showed him playing percentage cricket—high percentage strokes early, low aerial risk until path cleared, then one or two high-value shots to break fields.

By format: master controls

Test batting fundamentals

Back-and-across movement that settled the head early.
A high elbow that carved the classical front-foot drive; it also masked when he prepared to pull.
The leave as a scoring stroke: he made bowlers come to him. That concession from a bowler turns a leave into a scoring shot two balls later.
Against top-tier pace at home, he didn’t drift—he moved forward decisively or went deep, seldom stuck on the splice.

ODI batting craft

Minimizing dot balls without losing wicket value. He was as proud of a seam-up late cut for a single as a boundary when the situation called for it.
Two-gear acceleration: first to run-a-ball, then beyond. A thirty-over hundred wasn’t his default; a 45-over hundred that secured 300-plus totals was his bread and butter when pitches slowed.
Bouncers in ODIs: He rarely cross-batted early; preferred the lap into vacant fine-leg or a controlled uppercut. He kept his shape.

Sachin Tendulkar records at iconic venues (spotlight snapshots)

Sydney: 241* with cover drive on pause, then another ton built on early patience. He owned the angles.
Chennai: 136 vs Pakistan with a back spasm, an innings of guts and groove; numerous fifties that taught spinners to bowl to him on his terms.
Sharjah: Twin tons in a three-day span to drag and then clinch a tri-series. He picked moments to attack, timed surge overs, and knew when to run hard.
Mumbai (Wankhede): Emotion and excellence braided; struck classical strokes with a light grip, ran fast under a heavy burden of expectation.
Lord’s: No hundred, yet class everywhere—cushioned glides, late cuts, crafted ODI platforms.

Milestones and notable feats

100 international centuries: an Everest. The last of them came in an Asia Cup game in Dhaka, a workmanlike hundred that looked less flashy than many of his earlier symphonies. It was fitting; the final step on the staircase was earned with craft, not chaos.
Most fours in ODIs: 2,016. Watch them and you’ll see minimal fuss—full face, wrists just at the end, a body that never fell across.
Most 90s in international cricket: 28. He sat on the brink more often than anyone. That’s not a lament; it shows he batted long and gave himself repeated chances at three figures. A ninety, after all, is a game won as often as a hundred is.
Longest ODI career span: Across two eras of equipment and mindset, he kept finding ways to be relevant and then dominant.
Youngest Indian Test debutant: He faced a peak fast-bowling attack as a schoolboy. It looked improbable on paper; it looked inevitable once he took guard.

Partnership blueprints with Ganguly, Dravid, Sehwag

Ganguly: Opposite wings of the same bird. Opened countless ODIs with a left-right disruption few bowling pairs solved. They scored on different planes—Ganguly lifted square, Sachin threaded straight and square. Early dot-balls didn’t bother them; by the fifteenth over, a platform was almost guaranteed.
Dravid: ODI partnership that got the run-rate talking in complete sentences. Dravid’s shot volume went up with Sachin generating tempo; Sachin’s control looked serene with Dravid guarding the seam angles.
Sehwag: Tests that felt like a soundcheck before the concert. Sehwag hunted length; Sachin turned bowling changes into opportunities for consolidation or mini-surge. Their hundred stands often settled series trajectories.

Comparisons: Kohli vs Sachin, Rohit vs Sachin, Ponting vs Sachin, Lara vs Sachin

Virat Kohli vs Sachin Tendulkar

ODI centuries: Kohli has overtaken Tendulkar’s ODI hundred tally, a monumental achievement that underlines the modern chase era. He built his own cathedral with freakish chasing efficiency.
International and Test centuries and runs: Tendulkar remains ahead overall, especially in Tests, where his runs and centuries are still the final checkpoint.
Styles: Kohli’s white-ball middle overs can feel surgical—he hunts at 90–100 strike rate with few risks. Sachin’s one-day batting stretched across roles, with a wider range of innings archetypes—anchor, accelerator, finisher, tone-setter.
Legacy weighting: Sachin carried the heavy lifting of growing an ODI top-order template. Kohli refined it with new rules, fielding restrictions, and fitness revolutions. Both are epochal; the records cross-talk but do not cancel each other.

Rohit Sharma vs Sachin Tendulkar

World Cup centuries: Rohit stands atop this metric now, pushing Sachin into second. It tells a story of powerplay exploitation in the two-new-ball era.
ODI hundreds: Rohit stacks massive hundreds with unbelievable acceleration once he’s in. Sachin’s ODI hundreds came in broader conditions and roles.
Aesthetic overlap: Both have an effortless straight bat when they loft. Rohit’s wrists add flourish; Sachin’s balance added inevitability.

Ricky Ponting vs Sachin Tendulkar

Ponting’s peaks came with finals and knockout gravity. He dominated ICC finals and captained sides that won repeatedly.
Sachin’s numbers dwarf Ponting’s in aggregate runs and centuries, especially in ODIs; Ponting’s Test hundreds and match-winning dominance still anchor his case as a generational great.
Against Australia, Sachin wrote a rivalry; against India, Ponting wrote many ruthless closures. It’s a stylistic, situational comparison more than a pure-stats footrace.

Brian Lara vs Sachin Tendulkar

Lara owned the drama of the improbable—400*, 375, match-stealing fourth-innings and one-man tours-de-force. Sachin owned the architecture of consistency and the travel-proof technique.
Technique: Lara’s backlift and whip, Sachin’s compact coil and economy. Both beat great attacks in their homes. Tendulkar’s record book stretches longer; Lara’s highlights spike higher. Together, they defined a generation’s taste for stroke-making and resilience.

Sachin Tendulkar ODI centuries list and Test centuries list (structured highlights)

Without reproducing a raw table of a hundred entries, the useful angles are:

By opposition: Australia leads in Tests; Australia and Sri Lanka dominate his ODI ledger.
By venue: Sydney’s 241* caps the “away epic” category; Sharjah owns the ODI dramatic peak; at home, Mumbai and Chennai bookend emotion and excellence.
By match situation: Many hundreds were chases built with risk measured in teaspoons; others were first-innings anchors that made totals safe and let bowlers attack.
By tempo: He had slow-burn hundreds where the ball demanded respect, and blitzes where the series demanded nerve. The centurion silhouettes look different, which is why the count matters.

Sachin Tendulkar World Cup stats: the fine print

Powerplays mastered with loft-less precision until set.
Middle overs tilt: He hit the spinner out of his length early in the spell—either with a sweep that forced fine leg wider or a shimmy at the pads to open off-side scoring.
Death overs: He rarely slogged across the line; preferred the straight arc and pick-up over mid-wicket with full face.

Champions Trophy and Asia Cup

Champions Trophy: He has hundreds in the tournament and a tradition of setting up India’s runs in multi-nation events where venues change quickly and teams can’t over-prepare for one batter’s quirks.
Asia Cup: A pile of runs and the scene of his hundredth international hundred. Asia Cup innings often doubled as laboratory sessions—testing match-ups that would be revisited on larger stages.

Methodology and sources

All raw numbers and aggregates are aligned to ESPNcricinfo’s Statsguru database and ICC records. Formats and opponent splits are cross-checked with Wisden Almanack archives and official tournament reports. Contextual descriptions draw on match footage, contemporary reportage, and independent ball-by-ball analyses from professional scorers. This page is reviewed regularly and updated whenever significant comparison milestones move or official record audits occur.

FAQs: concise answers to high-intent queries

How many international centuries did Sachin Tendulkar score?
100: 51 in Tests and 49 in ODIs.
How many runs did Sachin Tendulkar score in ODIs and Tests?
ODIs: 18,426. Tests: 15,921.
What records of Sachin Tendulkar still stand?
Most international runs, most international centuries, most Test runs, most ODI runs, most ODI matches, most ODI Man of the Match awards, most ODI Man of the Series awards, most World Cup runs, and the single-edition World Cup run record.
When did Sachin score his 100th hundred?
During an Asia Cup game in Dhaka; a composed ODI century that completed the set.
Against which team does Sachin have the most centuries?
In Tests, Australia; in ODIs, Australia and Sri Lanka are the prominent peaks.
What is the “Desert Storm” innings?
Two innings in Sharjah—143 in a must-meet run-rate scenario following a sandstorm interruption, and 134 in the final—that redefined ODI chase and tournament leverage.
Did Sachin Tendulkar score a century at Lord’s?
No international century at Lord’s, a rare blank on an otherwise crowded canvas.
What are Sachin Tendulkar’s World Cup records?
Most runs overall (2,278), most runs in a single edition (673), six centuries, fifteen fifties, nine Man of the Match awards, and one Man of the Tournament.
How many Man of the Match awards did Sachin win in ODIs?
62, the most by any player.
How many ODI hundreds did Sachin score in a single year?
Nine, a record.

Expert notes: why these records endure

Measuring a batter only by totals misses the essence. Tendulkar’s records endure because of their portability. The technique was compact enough to travel, the temperament calm enough to hold when surfaces asked for humility, and the mindset modern enough to scale up when the game’s pace quickened. He anticipated white-ball evolution long before rule changes made it fashionable. He learned to win middle sessions in Tests by moving fielders with singles. He didn’t chase perfection; he managed probability.

Peak bowling attacks didn’t break him; they forced him to change shape and shot menu. That’s the rarest thing—someone who can be both a completionist (100 hundreds) and a chameleon (a different batting blueprint at Sydney vs Chennai vs Johannesburg). When younger stars took the baton, they did so with parts of his game stitched into theirs: Kohli’s chase math, Rohit’s straight loft, Williamson’s late contact, Babar’s neat balance. If an international batting classroom existed, Tendulkar wrote the foundational text.

Sachin Tendulkar records at a glance (compact tables for reference)

ODI career summary

Matches: 463
Innings: 452
Runs: 18,426
Highest: 200*
Average: 44.8
Strike rate: 86.2
100s/50s: 49/96
Man of the Match: 62
Man of the Series: 15
Fours: 2,016

Test career summary

Matches: 200
Runs: 15,921
Highest: 248*
Average: 53.8
100s/50s: 51/68

World Cup summary

Matches: 45
Runs: 2,278
Highest: 152
Average: 56.9
100s/50s: 6/15
Man of the Match: 9
Man of the Tournament: 1 edition
Most runs in a single edition: 673

Records, reinterpreted for the present

The record book moves. Kohli has surged past the ODI hundreds tally; Rohit now leads World Cup hundreds. Others will climb more columns with the benefit of T20-honed fitness and range. That’s how it should be. The right way to read Tendulkar’s numbers is not as a gatekeeper’s list but as a weather map. It shows the pressure systems new players must navigate if they want to claim the landscape. What remains immovable are the Everest-like markers that require a body of work across conditions and time. Most international runs. Most international centuries. Most Test runs. Those are not ducked; they are not taken in single runs of form. They are daily bread, baked for seasons.

Venue heatmaps in words

Fast and bouncy: Perth, Johannesburg. Played late, punched square, pulled at chest height only after getting in. Faced the short ball by choice, not compulsion.
Dry and turning: Chennai, Kanpur, Ahmedabad. Weighted the back leg, used the fold of the crease, accepted maidens early to earn boundary balls later.
Windy coastal grounds: Auckland, Wellington. Managed swing by rolling hands under the ball, took the third-man area early, and forced a mid-off to stay honest by pitching the straight drive.
Subcontinental ODI belts: Colombo, Dhaka, Sharjah. Worked singles square, initiated bowlers into defensive lines, then surged with the high-value straight loft and the whip through mid-wicket.

Why the 100th hundred mattered beyond arithmetic

By the time the penultimate step to 100 came, the milestone turned heavy. Every innings became a referendum on an abstract target. The final push was not a cinematic uppercut; it was a professional’s hundred—strike rotated, airy risks minimized, checklist completed. That’s the truth of greatness: sometimes the most historic frames arrive looking like good, hard work. That hundred closed the door on a chase that had started to define him in a way he didn’t ask for. Once it was done, the rest of the game felt lighter again.

What younger players took from him

The value of late contact: don’t win the ball with muscle; win it with time.
The leave as a weapon: make the bowler move first.
The inside-out loft: straight lines carry less risk if you keep the head still and the seam in sight.
The innings template: if Plan A isn’t singing, safeguard the wicket and let time tune the bat.
The humility to rebuild: he attended to off-season tweaks like a junior, even when senior enough to go on reputation.

Editorial perspective: a journalist’s view from press boxes and practice nets

He looked different up close. In practice, the routine had a ritual hush: shadow bat, check grip pressure by gently tapping the splice, a few fungo-style underarms to feel the bat’s pick-up. He talked little about records; he talked about feel. After a bad day, the remedy wasn’t a thousand balls in the nets; it was a hundred balls with a tight brief—middle-stump channel, don’t overhit, tell me where the seam is landing. At press conferences, he rarely snapped; he could be repetitive, but when the subject was technique he would go deep. A favorite was his explanation of the “late trigger”: a compact movement that initiated balance without committing the head. He swore by it on wobbly-seam mornings.

In press boxes, bowlers from other teams—off-duty, out of tournament—often shuffled in during his innings. You could hear the quiet consensus: the number on his back mattered, but the thing to watch was the head and how it stayed framed between shoulders, the ball arriving into a tiny corridor of calm. On those days, records felt like results rather than objectives.

Closing reflection: why the ledger still glows

Sachin Tendulkar’s records read like a library. Assembled piece by piece, they cover formats and continents and tournaments that don’t feel the same to play. Their real claim to greatness is not size; it’s reach. They reach back to when white-ball cricket was still learning its own physics, they reach forward to the age of perfect gym-built batters, and they sit across from Test cricket’s eternal exam room. He left behind not just numbers to chase but blueprints to borrow. That’s why his records remain the sport’s reference text. Icons come, records shift, and still there stands the silhouette: compact, eyes level, the bat an extension of intent, the sound of middle carrying to the boundary before the ball gets there.