SR Tendulkar added one more feather to his cap during his innings of 76 not out at the end of the first day’s play against Bangladesh at Chittagong on 17.01.10. He aggregated 1700 boundary fours to become the only batsman in the annals of test cricket to aggregate 1700 boundary fours. He reached the milestone when he hit Shakib Al Hasan for a boundary four, which was his sixth four of his innings. He collected the ball from outside the off stump and hit against the turn with a slog sweep over midwicket for four.

The following are the batsmen who have hit more than 1000 boundary fours in their test career. It should be noted that SR Tendulkar’s 1700 boundary fours, IVA Richards’s 1051 boundary fours and SM Gavaskar’s 1016 boundary fours have a suffix {+} denoting that the figures are as per available records.

No	Batsmen	Team	Mat	Runs	Ave	4s
1	SRTendulkar	Ind	163	13046	55.04	1700+
2	BC Lara	Win	131	11953	52.88	1559
3	R Dravid	Ind	138	11260	53.36	1420
4	RT Ponting	Aus	142	11859	55.67	1342
5	JH Kallis	SAF	135	10640	54.56	1197
6	SR Waugh	Aus	168	10927	51.06	1175
7	AR Border	Aus	156	11174	50.56	1161
8	AJ Stewart	Eng	133	8463	39.54	1121
9	InzamamulHaq	Pak	120	8830	49.60	1105
10	MJayawardene	Srl	110	9120	53.96	1086
11	GA Gooch	Eng	118	8900	42.58	1079
12	IVA Richards	Win	121	8540	50.23	1051+
13	ML Hayden	Aus	103	8625	50.73	1049
14	SM Gavaskar	Ind	125	10122	51.12	1016+