Sachin Tendulkar Open 15000 ODI Runs Club

Playing against South Africa in his 387th ODI when Sachin Tendulkar reached at 50, he becomes an opener of 15,000 runs club in ODIs. Another milestone in One Day International cricket. He was the first to score 10,000 runs in ODI. Overall he played 387 ODIs and scored 15043 runs with an average of 43.70.

Against each country

Country	Runs	Matches	Average
Sri Lanka	2436	65	45.96
Australia	2183	47	46.44
Pakistan	2122	61	38.58
South Africa	1647	51	32.29
West Indies	1571	38	54.17
New Zealand	1460	38	41.71
Zimbabwe	1377	34	49.17
England	900	27	39.13
Kenya	647	10	107.83
Bangladesh	354	10	44.25
Namibia	152	1	152.00
U.A.E	81	2	40.50
Bermuda	57	1	--
Netherlands	52	1	52.00
Ireland	4	1	4.00

His milestone

Milestone	Matches	Year
1000	36	1992
2000	73	1994
3000	96	1995
4000	115	1996
5000	141	1997
6000	176	1998
7000	196	1998
8000	217	1999
9000	242	2000
10000	266	2001
11000	284	2002
12000	309	2003
13000	330	2004
14000	359	2006
15000	387	2007

Dravid sixth in 10000 ODI runs club

Dravid become sixth player to enter in 10000 ODI runs club after Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Brian Lara and Jayasuriya. While playing his 287th inning of his 309th ODI match when he scored 22, he entered the club of 10000 ODI runs.

Rahul Dravid is the most dependable batsman for India in both Test and ODI cricket match. He is classical stroke player who plays every kind of shots in game of cricket. His first appearance in OID cricket was at at The Padang, Singapore on 3rd April 1996. Then he took 309 matches to reach 10000 OID runs milestone. Overall he played he scored 10044 runs in 309 matches with average 40. This include 12 Hundreds and 77 fifties with the best score 153.

Here is the Rahul Dravid's ODI Career milestones

• 1000 runs in 35th ODI Against Pakistan in India, 1997
• 2000 runs in 70th ODI Against NZ in NZ, 1998/99
• 3000 runs in 96th ODI Against WI in Singapur, 1999
• 4000 runs in 124th ODI Against Pakistan in UAE, 1999/00
• 5000 runs in 158th ODI Against SA in SA, 2001/02
• 6000 runs in 187th ODI Against WI in India, 2002/03
• 7000 runs in 223th ODI Against Australia in Australia, 2003/04
• 8000 runs in 249th ODI Against Pakistan in India, 2004/05
• 9000 runs in 280th ODI Against Pakistan in Pakistan, 2005/06
• 10000 runs in 309th ODI Against SL in India, 2006/07

Rahul Dravid's ODI runs against each countries.

• Pakistan 57 ODI 1823 runs
• Sri Lanka 42 ODI 1516 runs
• West Indies 39 ODI 1344 runs
• South Africa 33 ODI 1197 runs
• New Zealand 30 ODI 1018 runs
• Australia 36 ODI 923 runs
• Zimbabwe 32 ODI 885 runs
• England 18 ODI 665 runs
• Kenya 11 ODI 358 runs
• Bangladesh 7 ODI 119 runs
• U.A.E. 1 ODI 104 runs
• World XI 1 ODI 75 runs
• Netherlands 1 ODI 17 runs

Ganguly recalled, Laxman vice-captain

Test Series India V/S South Africa After very long wait Sourav Ganguly has recalled to the Indian Test squad for the forthcoming three-Test series against South Africa. The selectors picked the team in New Delhi and they selected Gautam Gambhir and VRV Singh along with Sourav Ganguly. Mohammad Kaif, Suresh Raina, Dinesh Mongia and Ajit Agarkar will return home after one day series. The selectors had decided 16 team members with 7 Batsman, 5 Fast Bowlers, 2 Spinners and 2 Wicket Keepers.

They also appointed VVS Laxman as vice captain for the Test team in place of Virender Sehwag. Hope this decision may boost up Sehvag's form leading to the batter batting performance by him. Irfan Pathan has persisted his place for pace attack side along with Munaf Patel, Zaheer Khan, Sreesanth and VRV Singh. Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh will take over the spin attack. And all they are backed by Dhoni and Dinesh Kartik.

Indian Test squad
Virender Sehwag
Wasim Jaffer
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (wk)
Dinesh Karthik
Sourav Ganguly
VVS Laxman
Rahul Dravid (*)
Sachin Tendulkar
Gautam Gambhir
Munaf Patel
Zaheer Khan
Sreesanth
VRV Singh
Irfan Pathan
Anil Kumble
Harbhajan Singh.