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England's Alastair Cook on the verge of breaking Sachin Tendulkar's record!

Alastair Cook could become the youngest player to score 10,000 runs in cricket

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As they saying goes, "records are meant to be broken". This is exactly what might happen come June, when England skipper Alastair Cook will be able to break Tendulkar's record of being the youngest cricketer to reach the 10,000 runs milestone.

Tendulkar's 10,000th Test run came against Pakistan in Kolkata in March 2005, a little more than a month before his 32nd birthday. Cook, who is still 31, has a chance to outrun Sachin Tendulkar in the opening Test against the visiting Sri Lankans at Headingley. Cook would still be 5 months younger.

It would be a morale boosting achievement for Cook who had been having a slak period of a couple of years in between from 2013 to 2015. But the batsman has regained his form back in the 2016 County Championship Division Two for Essex. He has hit scores of 105, 35no, 1, 127no and 142.

While Cook looks likely to become the youngest man to 10,000 Test runs, he won't be the fastest to reach the milestone in terms of innings played. That record is currently split three ways by Tendulkar and his contemporary Brian Lara, as well as Sri Lankan legend Kumar Sangakkara, who each needed 195 innings.

Australia's Ricky Ponting trails the trio by a single innings, at 196.

 

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