On 15th November 2009, Sachin Tendulkar will complete 20 years in international cricket. In a build up to that momentous day, MSN India presents a series of features dedicated to the Mumbai maestro. Take a look at the first one in the line-up.

• Highest run scorer in ODIs: 17178 runs
• Most number of hundreds in the ODIs: 45
• Most number of nineties in ODIs: 16
• Most number of man of the matches in the ODIs: 60
• Most number of man of the series in ODIs: 15
• First Cricketer to pass 10000 run in ODIs
• First Cricketer to pass 15000 run in the ODI
• Highest run scorer in the World Cup: 1,796 at an average of 59.87 as on 20 Mar 2007
• Most number of Fifties in ODIs: 91
• Appeared in Most Number of ODIs: 436
• He is the only player to be in top 10 ICC ranking for 10 years.
• Most number of 100's in Tests: 42
• He is one of the three batsmen to surpass 11,000 runs in Test cricket, and the first Indian to do so
• In 2003, Wisden rated Tendulkar as No. 1 and Vivian Richards at No. 2 in all time Greatest ODI player
• In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman after Sir Donald Bradman.
• Tendulkar is the only player to score a century in all three of his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts
• In 1992, at the age of 19, Tendulkar became the first overseas born player to represent Yorkshire
• Tendulkar has been granted the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award and Padma Shri by Indian government.He is the only Indian cricketer to get all of them.
• Tendulkar has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year in ODI's 7 times
• Out of his 56 man of the match awards only 5 times India has lost.
• In November 2006, Time magazine named Tendulkar as one of the Asian Heroes.
• Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998
• Highest individual score among Indian batsmen: 186* against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999.
• Sachin was the fastest to reach 10,000 runs taking 259 innings and has the highest batting average among batsmen with over 10,000 ODI runs
• On his debut, Sachin Tendulkar was the second youngest debutant in the world
• When Tendulkar scored his maiden century in 1990, he was the second youngest to score a century
• Tendulkar's record of five test centuries before he turned 20 is a current world record
• On 3 January 2007 Sachin Tendulkar (5751) edged past Brian Lara's (5736) world record of runs scored in Tests away from home
• Second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to make over 10,000 runs in Test matches
• Became the first Indian to surpass the 11,000 Test run mark and the third International player behind Allan Border and Brian Lara.