Sunday, July 29, 2007

Tendulkar joins 11,000 Test run club ...


Sachin Tendulkar on Saturday became the third batsman to score 11,000 runs in the longer version of the game when he reached his individual score of 27 on the second day of the second Test against England at Trent Bridge. Tendulkar, who is the highest run-getter in One-Day Internationals, drove left-arm spinner Monty Panesar through the covers and achieve the feat during India's first innings.

India, when bad light forced an early close to the second day of the second Test, were 254 for three - a lead of 56 - after they'd made short work of bowling out their opponents for 198 - England's lowest completed Test innings score this season.Tendulkar was 57 not out and Sourav Ganguly four not out.

But Monty Panesar kept England in the game by dismissing Dinesh Karthik and India captain Rahul Dravid on his way to two wickets for 50 runs in 18 overs.

After openers Dinesh Karthik and Wasim Jaffer had provided a solid start to India, Tendulkar accompanied captain Rahul Dravid to get past the England first innings total of 198. The Mumbai batsman was the target of the English bowlers and was treated with several bouncers by the hosts' pace spearhead James Anderson. On one occasion, he received a nasty blow on the grill of his helmet but shook off the blow to march on and went on to achieve the rare feat.

West Indies great Brian Lara (11,953) and former Australian captain Allan Border (11,174) are the other two players to have reached the milestone.

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