Sachin Tendulkar on Thursday crossed one more target as he went past the 18,000-run mark in ODIs during India's World Cup quarterfinal match aligned with Australia.Playing in his 451st ODI, Tendulkar reached the milestone with a single off Australian fast bowler Brett Lee in the 14th over of India's run chase at the Sardar Patel Stadium at Motera.

He was 45 short of 18,000 runs earlier than today's match.The 37-year-old Indian expert is the peak run-getter in both Tests and ODIs. The master blaster has till date scored 14,692 runs from 177 Tests at an average of 56.94 with 51 hundreds and 59 half centuries.

Published Date : Saturday, 25/3/2011 3:50 pM IST