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· Sachin Tendulkar (248*) posted his highest score in first-class and Test cricket bettering his 241* against Australia at Sydney in January this year.

· Tendulkar joined the selected band of batsmen who have scored four or more double centuries in Test cricket. Tendulkar is the third Indian after Rahul Dravid and Sunil Gavaskar. The details:

Batsman	For	200s	Tests
DG Bradman	Aus	12	52
WR Hammond	Eng	7	85
BC Lara	WI	7	112
MS Atapattu	SL	6	79
Javed Miandad	Pak	6	124
R Dravid	Ind	5	85
Zaheer Abbas	Pak	4	78
L Hutton	Eng	4	79
GS Chappell	Aus	4	87
CG Greenidge	WI	4	108
SM Gavaskar	Ind	4	125
SR Tendulkar	Ind	4	119

· Tendulkar has now aggregated 5,453 runs in 108 innings of 68 overseas Tests. His run-aggregate is now the highest by any batsman in away Tests. The previous record was on the name of Australia's Allan Border with 5,431 runs from 120 innings of 70 Tests.

The following table lists the leading run-scorers in 'away' matches:

Runs	Batsman	For	Tests	Inns	NO	Ave	HS	100	50	0
5453	SR Tendulkar	Ind	68	108	12	56.80	248*	19	22	9
5431	AR Border	Aus	70	120	24	56.57	200*	14	28	4
5404	IVA Richards	WI	73	115	8	50.50	291	13	31	7
5217	SR Waugh	Aus	79	120	26	55.50	200	17	20	13
5055	SM Gavaskar	Ind	60	106	9	52.11	221	18	22	6
4812	BC Lara	WI	56	103	1	47.18	277	14	20	7
4634	CH Lloyd	WI	66	108	9	46.81	242*	11	24	2
4351	Javed Miandad	Pak	64	103	8	45.80	271	9	26	6
4349	CG Greenidge	WI	62	110	7	42.22	223	11	19	7
4245	WR Hammond	Eng	41	72	8	66.33	336*	13	14	1
4193	R Dravid	Ind	46	78	11	62.58	270	11	19	4
4087	MC Cowdrey	Eng	59	100	9	44.91	151	13	20	5
4027	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Pak	56	93	8	47.38	200*	12	20	3
4010	ME Waugh	Aus	67	110	11	40.51	153*	9	24	12

· Tendulkar has now aggregated 879 runs in 14 innings of 9 Tests at an average of 97.66 in the year 2004. His batting average is the highest for any batsman in the calendar year 2004.

Tendulkar's batting in 2004:

Runs	Against	Venue	Test
241* & 60*	Australia	Sydney	4th
194*	Pakistan	Multan	1st
2 & 8	Pakistan	Lahore	2nd
1	Pakistan	Rawalpindi	3rd
8 & 2	Australia	Nagpur	3rd
5 & 55	Australia	Mumbai (WS)	4th
3	South Africa	Kanpur	1st
20 & 32*	South Africa	Kolkata	2nd
248*	Bangladesh	Dhaka	1st

Summary: 9 Tests, 14 innings, 879 runs, 248* Hs, 3 centuries, 2 fifties, 97.66 Ave.

Highest batting average in 2004 (Minimum Qualification: 500 runs)

Batsman	For	Tests	Inns	NO	Runs	Hs	Ave	100	50	0
SR Tendulkar	Ind	9	14	5	879	248*	97.66	3	2	-
JH Kallis	SA	9	17	5	1055	150*	87.92	4	6	1
GP Thorpe	Eng	10	16	5	797	119*	72.45	3	4	-
V Sehwag	Ind	11	18	1	1131	309	66.52	3	4	2
HH Gibbs	SA	6	12	1	700	192	63.64	2	3	1
MJ Clarke	Aus	6	10	1	548	151	60.89	2	2	-

· Tendulkar's innings is the highest ever played on Bangladesh soil beating South Africa's Jacques Rudolph's unbeaten 222 at Chittagong in 2002-03

· Tendulkar has now made 150-plus scores against 8 different countries. The only exception is Sri Lanka.

· Zaheer Khan's innings of 75 is the highest ever by any number 11 batsman in Tests putting into shade New Zealander Richard Collinge's unbeaten 68 made in 1972-73. Zaheer is also only the second Indian batsman to score a fifty at number 11 after Ghulam Ahmed.

· The tenth wicket partnership of 133 runs between Sachin Tendulkar and Zaheer Khan in Dhaka Test is India's best for this wicket against all countries. In fact the Tendulkar-Zaheer partnership is the joint second highest partnership for tenth wicket in all Tests. Overall it is the 18th instance of a century partnership for tenth wicket in Test chronicles second such instance for India.

The details:

Runs	Batsmen		For	Vs	Venue	Season	From	To	%Cont.
151	BF Hastings	RO Collinge	NZ	Pak	Auckland	1972-73	251-9	402	37.56
151	Azhar Mahmood	Mushtaq Ahmed	Pak	SAf	Rawalpindi	1997-98	305-9	456	33.11
133	Wasim Raja	Wasim Bari	Pak	WI	Bridgetown	1976-77	158-9	291	45.70
133	SR Tendulkar	Zaheer Khan	Ind	BD	Dhaka	2004-05	393-9	526	25.28
130	RE Foster	W Rhodes	Eng	Aus	Sydney	1903-04	447-9	577	22.53
128	K Higgs	JA Snow	Eng	WI	The Oval	1966	399-9	527	24.29
127	JM Taylor	AA Mailey	Aus	Eng	Sydney	1924-25	325-9	452	28.10
124	JG Bracewell	SL Boock	NZ	Aus	Sydney	1985-86	169-9	293	42.32
120	RA Duff	WW Armstrong	Aus	Eng	Melbourne	1901-02	233-9	353	33.99
118	NJ Astle	CL Cairns	NZ	Eng	Christchurch	2001-02	333-9	451	26.16
117*	P Willey	RGD Willis	Eng	WI	The Oval	1980	92-9	209-9	55.98
114	JN Gillespie	GD McGrath	Aus	NZ	Brisbane	2004-05	471-9	585	19.49
109	HR Adhikari	Ghulam Ahmed	Ind	Pak	Delhi	1952-53	263-9	372	29.30
106*	NJ Astle	DK Morrison	NZ	Eng	Auckland	1996-97	142-9	248-9	42.74
106	CL Hooper	CA Walsh	WI	Pak	St. John's	1992-93	332-9	438	24.20
104	Zulfiqar Ahmed	Amir Elahi	Pak	Ind	Madras	1952-53	240-9	344	30.23
103	HG Owen-Smith	AJ Bell	SAf	Eng	Headingley	1929	172-9	275	37.45
103	AJ Stewart	AR Caddick	Eng	Aus	Edgbaston	2001	191-9	294	35.03

· India (526) registered their highest score against Bangladesh surpassing their previous highest of 429 at Dhaka in November 2000.

· Rajin Saleh was dismissed without scoring in both innings in the identical fashion (LBW to Pathan). Although a total of 28 batsmen (on 30 occasions) have achieved the dubious distinction of bagging a pair against India, Saleh is only the second batsman to get dismissed in the identical fashion after Sri Lanka's Rumesh Ratnayake, who fell lbw to Venkatapathy Raju in both innings of Chandigarh Test in 1990-91.

· Irfan Pathan (10-76) became the youngest Indian pacer to claim 10 wickets in a match. At 20 years 46 days he is the fourth youngest Indian bowler overall to perform this feat. Pathan displaced Chetan Sharma (20 years 186 days) to the second position. Kapil Dev (21 years 14 days) is now third in this list. The youngest Indian ever to take ten wickets is S. Venkataraghavan, who was 18 years 335 days old while taking 12 for 152 against New Zealand at Delhi in 1964-65. While the youngest bowler ever to take 10 wickets in a Test match is Pakistan's Wasim Akram at 18 years 256 days.

The details:

Age	Bowler	Figures	Opponent	Venue	Season
18 Yrs 335 days	S Venkataraghavan	12-152	v NZ	Delhi	1964-65
18 Yrs 338 days	L Sivaramakrishnan	12-181	v Eng	Mumbai (WS)	1984-85
19 Yrs 89 days	Narendra Hirwani	16-136	v WI	Madras (now Chennai)	1987-88
20 Yrs 46 days	Irfan Pathan	10-76	v BD	Dhaka	2004-05
20 Yrs 186 days	Chetan Sharma	10-188	v Eng	Edgbaston	1986
20 Yrs 255 days	Harbhajan Singh	13-196	v Aus	Kolkata	2000-01

· Pathan's figures are the best by an Indian pacer in an away Test expunging Venkatesh Prasad's 10 for 153 against South Africa at Durban in 1996-97. Chetan Sharma (10-188 v England at Edgbaston in 1986) is the only other Indian pacer to have done so.

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