Sachin Tendulkar’s ODI record broken: Zimbabwe’s Brendan Taylor makes history vs Australia

Zimbabwe veteran Brendan Taylor has actually passed by Sachin Tendulkar to end up being the longest-serving gamer in guys’s ODI history after taking the field in the very first ODI versus Australia in Harare on Tuesday.Taylor’s ODI profession now covers 22 years and 4 months, moving him ahead of Tendulkar, whose ODI profession lasted 22 years and 3 months before he retired from the format in 2012.Tendulkar, nevertheless, still holds the record for the most ODI keeps up 18,426 and the most looks in the format with 463 matches.Taylor, 40, made his ODI launching in 2004 and has actually gone on to turn into one of Zimbabwe’s leading batters. Going into Tuesday’s match, he had actually scored a national-record 11 ODI centuries in 207 matches.Taylor retired from worldwide cricket in 2021, however in 2022 he was handed a three-and-a-half-year restriction for breaching the ICC’s Anti-Corruption and Anti-Doping codes.After finishing his suspension, he came out of retirement in 2025 as Zimbabwe started preparing to co-host the 2027 ODI World Cup with South Africa and Namibia.Meanwhile, Australia won the toss on Tuesday and chose to bat in their very first one-day cricket worldwide in Zimbabwe in 12 years.Australian captain Mitchell Marsh is among the 3 survivors in both groups to have actually played in the last ODI in Zimbabwe which the host group won. Zimbabwe skipper Sikandar Raza and Brendan Taylor are the other 2 gamers, who did contend because popular Zimbabwe triumph in 2014.Lineups: Australia: Mitchell Marsh (captain), Travis Head, Cooper Connolly, Josh Inglis, Alex Carey, Matt Renshaw, Ollie Peake, Xavier Bartlett, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa, Spencer Johnson.Zimbabwe: Brian Bennett, Ben Curran, Innocent Kaia, Brendan Taylor, Craig Ervine, Sikandar Raza (captain), Wessly Madhevere, Brad Evans, Newman Nyamhuri, Wellington Masakadza, Blessing Muzarabani.FOLLOW LIVE UPDATES