Alastair Cook Breaks Sachin Tendulkar's 11-Year-Old Record

In terms of the number of innings taken to reach 10,000 runs, Brian Lara, Sachin Tendulkar and Kumar Sangakkara hold the record of taking only 195 innings to reach the coveted milestone.

Tendulkar set the record 11 years back in March 2005 against Pakistan in Kolkata, a little more than a month before his 32nd birthday.

Before the second innings, Cook was just 5 runs away from the milestone. He reached the milestone with a four off Nuwan Pradeep.

Cook also became the first English cricketer ever to reach the milestone and 12th overall in the history of Test cricket.

Cook took 229 innings of 128 Test matches to reach the milestone.

Before Monday, the record was held by Sachin Tendulkar, who was 31 years, 326 days old when he reached the 10,000-run mark in Test cricket.

Cook went past the record at 31 years and 157 days.

Cook became the youngest cricketer to complete 10,000 runs in Test cricket.

England’s Test skipper Alastair Cook made it to the history books of cricket on Monday during their second innings of second Test against Sri Lanka at Chester-le-Street.