Sachin Tendulkar crosses 17000-run mark in ODIs
NEW DELHI: Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar finally touched the magical 17,000-run mark in One-Day International cricket during the fifth ODI against
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Australia at Hyderabad on Thursday.
Tendulkar completed the formality as he needed just seven runs to reach another milestone in his glittering career.
Sanath Jayasuriya is second on the list with 13,377 runs while Aussie captain Ricky Ponting has a lot of catching up to do.
The moment Tendulkar attained that mark the packed vociferous Rajiv Gandhi Stadium crowd jumped out of their seats and erupted in jubilation.
Tendulkar's wait to reach the 17,000-run mark in One-dayers continued in Mohali as he missed the milestone by just seven runs after getting dismissed for 40 on a dubious decision in the fourth ODI against Australia.
The 36-year-old scored the requisite seven runs to put another feather in his cap, which is already full of feathers but still managing to have some more. The Indian batting legend has 44 One-day hundreds and 91 ODI fifties under his belt.
The diminutive Mumbaikar, who made his ODI debut Pakistan in 1989, is already way ahead of his contemporaries when it comes to accumulating runs.
Rated as the world's best batsman after Australian legend Sir Donald Bradman, Tendulkar has an awe-inspiring Test record. In the whopping 159 matches that he has played thus far, Tendulkar has scored 12,773 runs at an average of 54.58.
The veteran batsman has scored 42 hundreds and 53 half centuries in the longer format of the game.
Death toll in Pindi suicide blast up to 22
Updated at: 1211 PST, Monday, November 02, 2009
RAWALPINDI: The death tally in Rawalpindi suicide blast has mounted to 22 including a women and as many others were injured, which took place near Shalimar Hotel behind Pearl Continental (PC) Hotel located on a Mall Road in Cantonment Area, on Monday morning, Geo news correspondent Zarghoon Shah quoted police sources as saying.
People, busy in banks and in offices of travel agencies located close to blast site, mostly fell victim to blast whose dead bodies have been shifted to District Headquarter (DHQ) Hospital, sources said.
According to police sources, a suicide bomber riding motorcycle blew himself up near banks and travel agencies’ offices to cause collateral damage; meanwhile, emergency has been declared in all hospitals as some among 23 wounded people were said to be critical in condition including an army major.
Hospital sources confirmed as many as 22 people have lost their lives while 23 others were wounded, some even critical in condition among them, have been admitted to 16 different hospitals.
According to preliminary information, a loud explosion, could be audible up to far and wide places, occurred at 10:40 am to target law enforcement agencies’ officials meanwhile, security forces’ officials had cordoned off the entire blast site.
It may be mentioned; the GHQ is located 500 yards away from blast site, which is a commercial area.
The intensity of blast also damaged vehicles parked far from explosion place, witnesses said.
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