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12027 - Tendulkar's run-aggregate in Test cricket. He became first batsman in Test history to go past 12,000 runs. He had earlier broken Brian Lara's [ Images ] world record of highest run-aggregate in Test cricket.

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10041 - Tendulkar's run-aggregate at number 4 in Test matches -- highest by any batsman at any particular position. India's [ Images ] Sunil Gavaskar [ Images ] is distant second with 8511 runs at number one position.

4132 - Runs added by Tendulkar in partnership with Sourav Ganguly [ Images ]. They became the sixth pair to aggregate 4,000 runs between them after Greenidge-Haynes (6482), Hayden-Langer (6081), Dravid- Tendulkar (5283), Hayden-Ponting (4677) and Atapattu- Jayasuriya (4533).

88 -  The score on which Tendulkar is most likely to be dismissed after passing 50. Today's was the fourth such instance -- second at Mohali; the other one was v England [ Images ] in 2001-02.

50 - Number of fifties scored by Tendulkar in Test cricket (other than 100s). Only Border (63) and Dravid (53) have scored more fifties in Test cricket, while Steve Waugh [ Images ] has also 50 fifties on his name.

9 - Number of times Tendulkar became the first victim of a bowler in Test cricket. After getting out to Cameron White [ Images ] at Bangalore in the first Test, it was the turn of Peter Siddle [ Images ] to dismiss him at Mohali. Tendulkar now shares the Indian record of getting out to a new bowler on most occasions with Sourav Ganguly. The world record is of ten dismissals jointly held by England's Herbert Sutcliffe and Colin Cowdrey.

4 - Sourav Ganguly became the fourth Indian to aggregate 7,000 Test runs. He is the first left-hander in this exclusive club.