Tendulkar joins 17,000 club

Statistical highlights - Irani Trophy 2003-04

Mumbai vs Rest of India (Day 1)

Sachin Tendulkar became the only fifth Indian batsman to aggregate 17,000 in first-class cricket during his knock of 94 (when on 50) against Rest of India at Chennai.

Playing in his 198th first-class match since his debut in 1988-89, he now has 17,044 runs to his name.

Sunil Gavaskar, with 25,834 runs, heads the list, as given below:

** The partnership of 149 runs between Tendulkar and Sairaj Bahutule was the best for Mumbai in the Irani Trophy, bettering the previous best of 109 runs between Sudhir Naik and Milind Rege, at Bangalore, during the 1973-74 season.

Incidentally, the Tendulkar-Bahutule partnership was the fourth best for the sixth wicket in the Irani Trophy.

** Although Tendulkar has an excellent record at this venue in Tests (714 runs @ 102.00 in 6 matches), he was not successful in his only other first-class match, outside Tests, at the Chepauk -- for West Zone against Central Zone during the 1992-93 Duleep Trophy,  making just 11 and 10 runs, in respective innings. Therefore, this knock is by far his best at this venue outside Test matches.

** Meanwhile, Tendulkar, who missed his 56th first-class hundred by six runs, has now missed a hundred by less than 10 runs on 12 occasions. He has five scores in the nineties in Test matches and seven in other first-class matches (including this match), which are listed below:

92 - Indians v Kent at Canterbury, 1990 (on tour)
96 - Mumbai v Haryana at Mumbai, 1990-91 (Ranji)
92 - Yorkshire v Gloucestershire at Leeds, 1992 (English county)
93 - Yorkshire v Essex at Leeds, 1992 (English county)
97 - Mumbai  v Baroda at Mumbai (RCF), 1994-95 (Ranji)
95 - Mumbai v Railways at Mumbai, 1997-98 (Ranji)
94 - Mumbai v Rest of India at Chennai,  2003-04 (Irani)

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