Indian master batsman Sachin Tendulkar on Tuesday crossed two major milestones in his glorious cricket career when he became the second highest scorer in the world cup and crossed 8000 runs in one-day internationals in the super league tie against Pakistan at Old Trafford.

Sachin became the first Indian and third in the world to score over 1000 runs in world cup when he collected two runs from the third ball of Wasim Akram in the first over of the match.

Indian run machine achieved another landmark of becoming the second Indian after skipper Mohammed Azharuddin to score 8,000 runs in one-day cricket in his 217th match.

Sachin playing his 21st match, joined the elite group of legendary cricketers Javed Miandad of Pakistan (1083 runs in 33 matches) and West Indian Vivian Richards (1013 runs in 23 matches), who were the two other batsmen to have scored more than 1000 runs in this quadrennial event. He overtook Richard’s 1013 when he hit Azhar Mahmood for a four.

Sachin has become the fastest player to score 1,000 runs in world cup achieving it in his 20th innings. Sachin also became the faster ever to score 8,000 runs, scoring in his 217th match.

Sachin in his previous 14 innings in the last two world cups had scored 806 runs--283 in seven innings in 1992 and 523 in seven innings in 1996--and had emerged as the highest run getter in the last edition.

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