Test Stats - Tendulkar’s records

During India’s run chase in the second Test at Bangalore against New Zealand, Sachin Tendulkar added another record to his credit, when he became the highest run-scorer in the fourth innings of a Test match. Tendulkar now has 1590 runs, and has gone past Rahul Dravid, his former team-mate who held the record with 1575 runs. Tendulkar now holds the record for the most runs by any batsman in the first innings (5511 runs), the second innings (5449 runs) and now the fourth. Allan Border, the former Australian captain, has the most runs in the third innings of a Test with 3511. Border is followed by Jacques Kallis, the South African allrounder who has 3301 runs, while Tendulkar is third with 2983 runs. The tables below provide the details of the leading run-scorers in each innings in Tests.

Most runs in the 1st innings of a Test match

Batsman	Team	Mts	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	100s	50s
SR Tendulkar	Ind	88	88	6	5511	241*	67.21	20	19
RT Ponting	Aus	91	91	4	5399	242	62.06	21	22
SR Waugh	Aus	95	94	16	4855	199	62.24	17	22
R Dravid	Ind	75	75	3	4121	222	57.24	15	15
JH Kallis	SA	75	75	4	4105	224	57.82	19	10
AR Border	Aus	88	87	9	4056	200*	52.00	9	27
BC Lara	WI	58	58	1	4000	400*	70.18	12	12
Javed Miandad	Pak	60	60	6	3730	280*	69.07	9	17
DPMD Jayawardene	SL	66	66	1	3496	240	53.78	13	10
GA Gooch	Eng	69	69	0	3184	333	46.14	7	18

Most runs in the 2nd innings of a Test match

Batsman	Team	Mts	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	100s	50s
SR Tendulkar	Ind	101	99	3	5449	248*	56.76	18	24
R Dravid	Ind	89	89	7	4984	270	60.78	15	24
DPMD Jayawardene	SL	66	66	1	4277	374	65.80	13	17
BC Lara	WI	72	72	0	4249	277	59.01	13	21
JH Kallis	SA	80	80	6	4004	201*	54.11	13	19
RT Ponting	Aus	74	74	1	3965	257	54.32	14	15
V Sehwag	Ind	55	55	0	3815	319	69.36	12	13
S Chanderpaul	WI	84	84	10	3745	166	50.61	10	21
SR Waugh	Aus	73	72	9	3703	200	58.78	13	16
SM Gavaskar	Ind	64	63	3	3613	236*	60.22	12	15

Most runs in the 3rd innings of a Test match

Batsman	Team	Mts	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	100s	50s
AR Border	Aus	81	76	21	3511	163	63.84	9	22
JH Kallis	SA	66	63	15	3301	186	68.77	10	16
SR Tendulkar	Ind	71	70	8	2983	176	48.11	10	15
KC Sangakkara	SL	55	54	4	2861	211	57.22	10	13
GA Gooch	Eng	68	68	2	2777	183	42.08	7	11
R Dravid	Ind	67	65	4	2608	180	42.75	5	15
SM Gavaskar	Ind	60	57	4	2565	220	48.40	7	14
RT Ponting	Aus	77	75	10	2528	116	38.89	2	19
VVS Laxman	Ind	57	53	9	2376	281	54.00	4	16
Inzamam-ul-Haq	Pak	54	51	6	2327	138	51.71	5	19

Most runs in the 4th innings of a Test match

Batsman	Team	Mts	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	100s	50s
SR Tendulkar	Ind	70	57	15	1590	136	37.86	3	7
R Dravid	Ind	65	57	18	1575	103*	40.38	1	9
S Chanderpaul	WI	55	45	11	1518	116*	44.65	2	11
GC Smith	SA	36	35	9	1504	154*	57.85	4	9
RT Ponting	Aus	55	42	14	1454	156	51.93	4	6
BC Lara	WI	52	46	5	1440	153*	35.12	2	7
SM Gavaskar	Ind	34	33	9	1398	221	58.25	4	8
CG Greenidge	WI	41	38	12	1383	214*	53.19	3	6
MA Atherton	Eng	39	39	6	1375	185*	41.67	2	9
ML Hayden	Aus	39	39	13	1287	101*	49.50	1	9