SR Tendulkar created a world record at Mohali against Australia in the first test of the ongoing test series by aggregating 1003 runs in the calendar year 2010, which was his sixth occasion of totaling 1000 runs in calendar year. He has totalled 1000 runs in 1997, 1088 runs in 1998, 1003 runs in 2001, 1392 runs in 2002, 1063 runs in 2008 and 1003 in 2010.

His 1003 runs in 2010 came at Mohali when he was on 35 during his knock of 38 in India’s second innings. SR Tendulkar went past ML Hayden of Australia, BC Lara of West Indies and RT Ponting of Australia who have compiled 1000 runs in five calendar years. The exploits of these four batsmen a are furnished below

No	Batsmen	Year	Mat	Runs	C	F
1	ML Hayden	2001	14	1391	5	5
2	ML Hayden	2002	11	1160	6	3
3	ML Hayden	2003	12	1312	5	3
4	ML Hayden	2004	14	1123	3	6
5	ML Hayden	2005	15	1380	5	4
1	BC Lara	1995	12	1222	4	6
2	BC Lara	2001	9	1151	3	4
3	BC Lara	2003	10	1344	5	5
4	BC Lara	2004	12	1178	3	4
5	BC Lara	2005	9	1110	5	0
1	RT Ponting	2002	11	1064	5	2
2	RT Ponting	2003	11	1503	6	4
3	RT Ponting	2005	15	1544	6	6
4	RT Ponting	2006	10	1333	7	4
5	RT Ponting	2008	14	1182	4	5
1	SR Tendulkar	1997	12	1000	4	3
2	SR Tendulkar	1999	10	1088	5	4
3	SR Tendulkar	2001	10	1003	3	6
4	SR Tendulkar	2002	16	1392	4	5
5	SR Tendulkar	2008	13	1063	4	3
6	SR Tendulkar	2010	08	1003	5	3