Sachin Hits 15,000th Test Runs

New Delhi:Sachin Tendulkar of India on Tuesday become the opening batsman in history to score 15,000 Test runs even as he motivated towards his 100th international century.Tendulkar, 38, attain the feat when he reaches 28 on the third day of the first Test next to the West Indies at the Feroz Shah Kotla ground in New Delhi.

Tendulkar was winning on 33 and Rahul Dravid was on 30 as India - set a victory target of 276 - reach152-2 by stump.The Mumbai batsman, in concert his 182nd Test match, by now holds the world record for a good number runs and centuries in equally Test and one-day cricket.

Sachin needs one more three-figure beat to become the first batsman to score 100
international hundreds. He has 51 Test and 48 one-day centuries so far.Dravid is second in the Test scorers' list with 12,859 runs, to the lead of Ricky Ponting of Australia (12,487) and West Indies batsman Brian Lara (11,953).

Top run-getter in Test cricket

15,005* - Sachin Tendulkar (IND)

12,859* - Rahul Dravid        (IND)

12,487 -   Ricky Ponting      (AUS)

11,953 -   Brian Lara            (WIS)

11,947 -   Jacques Kallis     (RSA)

11,174 - Allan Border          (AUS)

10,927 - Steve Waugh        (AUS)

10,122 - Sunil Gavaskar     (IND)

{* denotes unbeaten innings }

PCB rejects mohammed Aamer's ignorance claim fixing

Lahore: Pakistan's cricket establishment on Friday rejected Mohammad Aamer's claims that they had not learned the talented fast bowler on how to combat dishonesty in the sport.Aamer was one of three Pakistani cricketers hand jail sentence on Thursday for their part in spot-fixing throughout a Test match against England at Lord's last year, a scandal that has the reverberate across the cricketing world.

 
The 19-year-old will use six months in a young offenders' arrest center, but he sought to excuse his behavior earlier this week, proverb that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) did not teach him on altered form."The PCB by no means told me just how serious an offence it was to get into these sorts of belongings. They didn't educate me sufficient about anti-corruption laws," Aamer was quote in Pakistani media as saying.

The PCB powerfully rejected the spaceman's claims."A section of the media has report a supposed statement of Aamer in which he has claimed that PCB did not educate him connecting to anti-corruption codes that players are to abide on.""PCB would like it known for the record that this claim is in total challenge to the facts," said PCB in a press release.

Two months after the disgrace, the International Cricket Council (ICC) came down hard on the PCB, sending them orders to curb fixing and regulation problems and bullying suspension if improvement were not seen.PCB said Aamer had signed the players' code of behavior in March 2010 "which clearly states that by sign the same the player commit to remaining by all ICC rules concerning betting, match fixing, fraud, and any matter that could call into question the honesty of the game.

The board said Aamer had also attended several courses on how to deal with deception and warning players on the dangers of associate with stranger.