Sachin crosses 30,000 international runs: Cricketnext

Ahmedabad: Sachin Tendulkar crossed yet another milestone on Friday by becoming the first batsman to score 30,000 runs in international cricket.

Batting in the second innings on the final day of the first Test against Sri Lanka, the batting maestro stroked his 35th run to achieve the latest landmark.

He ended his 160th Test here sitting on 12877 runs, with 43 hundreds and 53 half centuries at an average of 54.79.

Tendulkar's 30, 000 runs in international cricket

	Matches	Test runs	ODI runs	T20 runs	Total runs
SR Tendulkar (Ind)	597	12877	17178	10	30065
RT Ponting (Aus)	483	11345	12311	401	24057
BC Lara (WI)	430	11953	10405	-	22358
R Dravid (Ind)	474	11038	10765	-	21803
JH Kallis (SA)	436	10277	10409	288	20974
ST Jayasuriya (SL)	572	6973	13377	549	20899
Inzamam-ul-Haq (Pak)	499	8830	11739	11	20580