With a voracious appetite for individual records, Sachin Tendulkar is perhaps the greatest milestone-man in the history of cricket. In the year 2008 he broke records which just a decade ago were considered beyond the reach of a bat-wielding-mortal. Sachin transcended that by first crossing the 16,000 run mark in ODI during the CB series in Australia and following it up by becoming the highest run scorer in Test cricket by eclipsing Brian Lara’s record of 11, 953 runs. Finally, during the Nagpur Test against Aussies he notched up his 40th Test ton, inevitably the first to do so in the history of cricket.