Sachin Tendulkar became the first batsman to complete 30,000 international runs when he scored his 35^th runs in the second innings against Sri Lanka on the fifth and final day of the first test at Sardar Patel stadium in Ahmedabad.

Tendulkar touched the magical 17,000 run mark in One-Day International cricket earlier this month.

The Master Blaster has so far played 160 Tests, 436 ODIs and a lone Twenty20 scoring 87 international hundreds and 145 half centuries in all. He has 45 One-Day hundreds and 91 ODI fifties under his belt. He has scored 42 hundreds and 54 fifties in the Test format of the game.

The Indian batting legend made his ODI debut in Pakistan, 1989.