Sachin Tendulkar Records: Sachin Tendulkar is one of the greatest batsmen not only in India but in the world. Sachin Tendulkar has made many such world records, which are next to impossible to break. You will be surprised to know that there are 5 great records of the cricket world, which even Sachin Tendulkar himself has not been able to break in his 24 year long international career. Let's take a look at 5 such world records of the cricket world, which proved impossible to break even for Sachin Tendulkar.
1. World record of 400 runs in test cricket
Sachin Tendulkar has never been able to make a world record of playing an individual inning of 400 runs in his entire Test career. Sachin Tendulkar has played the highest innings of 248 runs in Test cricket. Sachin Tendulkar could not score even a triple century in his entire Test career. Former West Indies captain Brian Lara had scored unbeaten 400 runs in the Antigua Test match against England in 2004. Lara played a historic inning of world record 400 runs against England. Not only Sachin Tendulkar, no batsman in the world has been able to break this great record in the last 20 years.
2. Average of 99.94 in Test cricket
Sachin Tendulkar had scored 15921 runs at an average of 53.79 in his entire Test career. However, he could never break the world record of Australia's Donald Bradman's batting average in Test cricket. Donald Bradman has scored 6996 Test runs in his career. During this period, his batting average has been 99.94, which is the highest in the history of cricket. Not only Sachin Tendulkar, no batsman in the world has been able to break this great record. Donald Bradman has played only 52 test matches in his life.
3. 6 sixes on 6 balls
Sachin Tendulkar was an expert in hitting sixes, but he could never achieve the feat of hitting 6 sixes in 6 consecutive balls in international cricket. In international cricket for India, only Yuvraj Singh has done the feat of hitting 6 sixes in 6 consecutive balls. Yuvraj Singh had hit 6 sixes in 6 consecutive balls against Stuart Broad of England in the 2007 T20 World Cup. Sachin Tendulkar has never been able to hit 6 sixes in 6 consecutive balls in his entire career.
4. World record of 12 double centuries in Test cricket
Sachin Tendulkar has not been able to break the world record of 12 double centuries in Test cricket. The world record for scoring the maximum number of 12 double centuries in Test cricket is held by the great Australian batsman Donald Bradman. Talking about Sachin Tendulkar, he has scored 6 double centuries in Test cricket.
5. Record of playing T20 World Cup
Sachin Tendulkar has jointly played the most number of ODI World Cups in the world. Sachin Tendulkar has played ODI World Cup 6 times. Pakistan's Javed Miandad also has the record of playing 6 World Cups. However, in 2011, Sachin Tendulkar also equaled his record by playing 6 World Cups. Sachin Tendulkar will regret that he could never play the T20 World Cup for India. Sachin Tendulkar played his only T20 International match against South Africa in Johannesburg on 1 December 2006. Sachin Tendulkar had scored 10 runs in this match. In the year 2007, Sachin Tendulkar had a chance to play the T20 World Cup, but he decided to stay away from it.
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