India's top batsman Sachin Tendulkar became the highest Test-run scorer in Mohali on Friday after scoring the 15 runs he required to surpass Brian Lara's record, in the first innings of the second Test against Australia.
Tendulkar scored three runs after tea to move on to 16, giving him a career record of 11,955 runs, which eclipsed the previous mark of former West Indies captain Brian Lara.
Lara had scored 11,953 runs before retiring from international cricket in 2007. He went past former Australia captain Allan Border's tally of 11,174 runs in Adelaide in 2005.
Here is how the record of highest run-scorer in Tests has changed hands (from 1000 runs):
| Player | Runs | Date |
| A Shrewsbury (Eng) | 1000 | 17 July 1893 |
| J Darling (Aus) | 1278 | 23 Jan 1902 |
| AC MacLaren (Eng) | 1297 | 03 Mar 1902 |
| C Hill (Aus) | 1495 | 24 Jul 1902 |
| AC MacLaren (Eng) | 1518 | 26 Jul 1902 |
| C Hill (Aus) | 1542 | 12 Aug 1902 |
| JB Hobbs (Eng) | 3413 | 22 Dec 1924 |
| WR Hammond (Eng) | 5411 | 26 Jun 1937 |
| MC Cowdrey (Eng) | 7250 | 29 Nov 1971 |
| GS Sobers (WI) | 7460 | 26 Mar 1972 |
| G Boycott (Eng) | 8033 | 23 Dec 1981 |
| SM Gavaskar (Ind) | 8115 | 13 Nov 1983 |
| AR Border (Aus) | 10123 | 26 Feb 1993 |
| BC Lara (WI) | 11175 | 25 Mar 2006 |
| SR Tendulkar (Ind) | 11955* | 17 Oct 2008 |
Note: Sachin Tendulkar was batting on 15 at the time of updating this statistic.
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