Tendulkar joins the 10,000 club

His dismissal for 94 at Mohali delayed the inevitable, but Tendulkar needed just one more innings to score the 27 he required to reach the landmark of 10,000 Test runs. Only four other batsmen have achieved this feat, and no-one has done it in fewer innings than Tendulkar's 195 - Brian Lara took exactly the same number, while Sunil Gavaskar, Allan Border and Steve Waugh all required more than 200 innings.

Like Tendulkar, Gavaskar also got his 10,000th run in a home Test against Pakistan in March - Gavaskar got that vital run at Ahmedabad on March 7, 1987. He was then joined by Allan Border, whose 11,174 remains the highest Test aggregate. Border got to the landmark against West Indies at Sydney in 1992-93. Steve Waugh was the next to join him, at the same ground ten years later, while Brian Lara was the fourth one to enter the league, at Old Trafford in 2004. The table below shows the stats of all five players after the innings in which they got their 10,000th run.

It took Tendulkar 19 Tests to get his first 1000 runs, but since those early days, the aggregate has been growing at a rather more rapid rate. The rate dipped slightly between 8000 and 9000, but Tendulkar is clearly back on track - his last 1000 came in just 11 matches.

This was Tendulkar's sixth fifty-plus score against Pakistan in 12 Tests, but his average against them is still only a modest 43.88. Only against South Africa does he have a lower average (37.14 in 16 matches). (Click here for Tendulkar's career summary before this Test.)