Sachin now the leading Test run scorer

Little Master Sachin Tendulkar became the world's highest test-run scorer by surpassing West Indian Brian Lara's 11,953 runs on Friday in the first innings of second test match against Australia in Mohali, despite some sloppy batting by Indian middle-order.

The 35-year-old Tendulkar who has always been in the lime light for his record-breaking career needed 15 runs to achieve that height when he guided a delivery of Aussie debutant Peter Siddle to the third man, and was enough to make the crowd stood up and applaud the genius.

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In a sunny day, those Indian cricket fans were all ready to cheer this extraordinary feat of the maestro with firecrackers and standing ovation. The Master Blaster wrote the script in cricket history in his 152nd Test, and 247th innings.

Already regarded as one the greatest batsman ever in the history of cricket, Sachin Tendulkar is now the only batsman making 12,000 runs in Test cricket. Australian player Allan Border (11,174 runs) and Steve Waugh (10,927) are the other two apart from Lara who is behind Sachin.

Tendulkar, who already has the credit of scoring the highest runs in one-day internationals, also owns the record of most centuries in both forms of the game.

Sachin played his first test match in 1989 against arch-rival Pakistan and that to a radiant pace attack, ever since his appetite for scoring runs and playing for India is well evident from his 20-year long career as a cricketer. Certainly there are very few in sports that become legends while still playing.