Indian batting icon Sachin Tendulkar today completed his sixth double hundred in Test cricket, adding to the mountain of runs he has accumulated in his over two-decade career.
Tendulkar's knock of 214 came against Australia in the second Test in Bangalore. The right-hander took 363 balls and struck 22 fours and a couple of sixes during his stay on the crease.
He was dismissed by rookie Australian pacer Peter George who clean bowled the Indian for his maiden Test wicket.
Tendulkar holds just about every batting record worth owning in the game, including those for most runs and hundreds in Tests and ODIs, and most international runs.
The right-hander has 57 fifties in the longer format of the game.
The 37-year-old has 46 hundreds and 93 fifties in one-day cricket.
The Mumbaikar is the only cricketer to scale the 14,000 peak in Test cricket.
At 12178, Australian skipper Ricky Ponting remains Tendulkar's nearest rival but the Aussie is still behind by 1839 runs.
Incidentally, it was during Australia's last tour of India, Tendulkar crossed Brian Lara's record of most number of runs in Tests.
Lara (11953) occupies the third spot in the elite list of most runs in Test career as his position remains to be in danger with Indian batsman Rahul Dravid (11581) closing in on the gap.
In the shorter format of the game, Tendulkar has played 442 one-dayers scoring 17,598 runs at an average of 45.12.
