Sachin Tendulkar vs Ricky Ponting : Most career century & runs : Test + ODI.

Two of the greatest modern cricketers, Sachin Tendulkar of India and Ricky Ponting of Australia, now have come to a stage in their career that they are miles ahead of remaining players of various countries, but mighty close to each other.

With not much cricket left in both of them, the thing to watch out for is which one of these two cricketers quit with record of most century and runs in both test and one day international form of cricket.

Note that Sachin Tendulkar made his test debut back in November 1989 against Pakistan at Karachi while Ricky Ponting came onto world stage first in one day internationals, on 15 February 1995, against South Africa at Wellington = almost 5 years gap. by the time Ponting burst on the scene, Tendulkar had 8 test centuries and 2 in onedayers which means in duration which both players have played together, Ponting has been more prolific than Tendulkar.

Have a look at the batting averages of both legends, in both forms of the game. Note that Sachin and Ponting have quite international twenty20 matches.

Lets admit, Ricky Ponting may not be able to break Sachin's records, but he's been captain of Australia during most part of his career and has contributed in field to Australia as well, which indeed makes him a cricketer comparable to Indian legend.

Quotes

Ricky Ponting :- "The number of innings of his (Tendulkar's) I have been able to sit back and watch, I think he is an amazing player. Look at his stats and records and it's quite incredible for someone to have stayed in the game for 20 years.. He has set benchmarks for guys like me to chase him and get as close as we can. If I had to last 20 years, I would probably be batting in a wheelchair!!"

Interestingly, I've never read or heard a comment by Sachin Tendukar about his growing century competition with Ricky Ponting, have you? let us know and we'll it here.

What's next? These two legendary batsmen meet in world cup 2011 after finishing South African tour and Ashes battle. Who ever continues to play on after that is anybody's guess.

Update : Ricky scored his 30th ODI century on 24th March while Sachin scored his 48th ODI century at Nagpur on 12 March 2011.

Test Career Statistics
Batsman (country)	Mts	Inns	Notout	Runs	Hundreds	Highest	Average	50s
Sachin Tendulkar (India)	177	290	32	14692	51	248*	56.94	59
Ricky Ponting (Australia)	152	259	28	12363	39	257	53.51	56
ODI Career Statistics
Sachin Tendulkar (India)	451	440	41	18008	48	200*	45.13	94
Ricky Ponting (Australia)	359	349	37	13288	30	164	42.58	79

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