Little master Sachin Tendulkar became the leading run scorer in the one-day internationals during his innings of 69 against New Zealand at Nairobi Gymkhana in the final of ICC Knock Out. He overhauled fellow Indian Mohammad Azharuddin's record tally of 9372 runs.

A comparitive study of these two batsmen reveals the fact that Tendulkar has always enjoyed a distinct edge over Azharuddin. Tendulkar reached every progressive milestone of 1000 runs in lesser matches than Azharuddin. Infact he took 81 matches and 62 innings lesser than Azharuddin to improve upon his aggregate. Had 'Tendalya' played in as many one-day internationals as Azharuddin has played, so far 334, he would have aggregated nearly about 12,000 runs as worked out by a computerised projection of his level of performance. Further, Tendulkar has scored 25 hundreds as against Azhar's 7.

Sachin Tendulkar's One-day international career

  
Opponent      Mts  Inns  NO     Runs    Hs    Ave.  100  50   0
   

v Australia    28   28    0     1346    143   48.07  5    6   1
v Bangladesh    6    5    0      199     54   39.80  0    1   0
v England      14   14    1      384     91   29.53  0    2   0
v Kenya         5    5    3      410    140* 205.00  3    0   0
v New Zealand  31   30    1     1279    186*  44.10  3    7   3
v Pakistan     43   41    4     1335    118   36.08  2    9   3
v South Africa 36   36    0     1117    122   31.02  2    5   1
v Sri Lanka    42   40    5     1593    137   45.51  5    8   1
v U.A.E.        1    1    0       63     63   63.00  0    1   0
v West Indies  26   26    4      843    105   38.31  1    7   3
v Zimbabwe     21   20    4      864    127*  54.00  4    2   0

TOTAL         253  246   22     9433    186*  42.11 25   48  12

Highest: 186* v New Zealand at Hyderabad on 08-11-1999

Mohammad Azharuddin's One-day international career

Opponent      Mts    Inns    NO    Runs   Hs   Ave.  100  50  0

v Australia    43     41      6     990   94   28.28  0    6  2
v Bangladesh    7      4      2     173   84   86.50  0    1  0
v England      24     23      9     911   95*  65.07  0    8  1
v Kenya         4      1      0       9    9    9.00  0    0  0
v New Zealand  40     39      8    1118  108*  36.06  1    7  0
v Pakistan     64     59      7    1657  101   31.86  2    9  3
v South Africa 33     33      2    1109   90   35.77  0    7  0
v Sri Lanka    53     48     12    1834  111*  50.94  3   15  2
v U.A.E.        1      1      0      81   81   81.00  0    1  0
v West Indies  43     42      4     998   81   26.26  0    2  0
v Zimbabwe     22     17      4     498  153*  38.30  1    2  1

TOTAL         334    308     54    9378  153*  36.92  7   58  9

Highest: 153* v Zimbabwe at Cuttack on 09-04-1998

Appearance Milestones:

This is where Tendulkar and Azharuddin stood after every segment of 50 matches.

  
Matches   Tendulkar    Azharuddin

 50          1446         1187

100          3146         2290
150          5321         3795
200          7305         5399
250          9287         6996
300                       8553

Progress Chart:

This is how Tendulkar and Azharuddin reached every milestone of 1000 runs.

            Tendulkar   Azharuddin    

Target      Mts  Inns   Mts   Inns
   

1000 runs   36   34      45    41
2000 runs   73   70      83    75
3000 runs   96   93     124   113
4000 runs  115  112     156   143
5000 runs  141  138     184   170
6000 runs  176  170     222   205
7000 runs  196  189     253   233
8000 runs  217  210     278   257
9000 runs  242  235     320   294
9378 runs  253  246     334   308

Scoring Pattern:

Score     Tendulkar      Azharuddin

Duck          12               9
1-9           55              74
10-49        106             160
50-89         42              51
90-99          6               7
100-149       24               6
150 +          1               1

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