Australia batsman Matthew Hayden on Sunday became the first player in Test cricket to score 1,000 runs in four consecutive calendar years.
The 33-year-old left-hander scored 70 in the first innings of the second Test against New Zealand at Adelaide Oval on Friday and needed 10 runs in the second innings to reach the landmark figure.
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Hayden, who took several years to establish himself in the Test team, has 61 caps and has hit 20 centuries including a then world-record 380 against Zimbabwe in Perth in 2003-04.
Twelve months ago Hayden became the first player to score 1,000 runs in three successive calendar years.
In 2001 the opener made 1,391; he made 1,160 in 2002 and 1,312 runs last year.
Hayden and Justin Langer put on 137 in the first innings of this week's second Test, their 13th century stand. They became only the third opening pair to score 4,000 Test runs together, after West Indians Desmond Haynes and Gordon Greenidge and Sri Lanka's Sanath Jayasuriya and Marvan Atapattu.
Former West Indies captain Viv Richards holds the record for most calendar year runs with 1,710 in 1976.
