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India's top batsman Sachin Tendulkar [Images] became the highest Test-run scorer in Mohali on Friday after scoring the 15 runs he required to surpass Brian Lara's [Images] record, in the first innings of the second Test against Australia [Images].

Tendulkar scored three runs after tea to move on to 16, giving him a career record of 11,955 runs, which eclipsed the previous mark of former West Indies [Images] captain Brian Lara.

Lara had scored 11,953 runs before retiring from international cricket in 2007. He went past former Australia captain Allan Border's [Images] tally of 11,174 runs in Adelaide in 2005.

Here is how the record of highest run-scorer in Tests has changed hands (from 1000 runs):

Player	Runs	Date
A Shrewsbury (Eng)	1000	17 July 1893
J Darling (Aus)	1278	23 Jan 1902
AC MacLaren (Eng)	1297	03 Mar 1902
C Hill (Aus)	1495	24 Jul 1902
AC MacLaren (Eng)	1518	26 Jul 1902
C Hill (Aus)	1542	12 Aug 1902
JB Hobbs (Eng)	3413	22 Dec 1924
WR Hammond (Eng)	5411	26 Jun 1937
MC Cowdrey (Eng)	7250	29 Nov 1971
GS Sobers (WI)	7460	26 Mar 1972
G Boycott (Eng)	8033	23 Dec 1981
SM Gavaskar (Ind)	8115	13 Nov 1983
AR Border (Aus)	10123	26 Feb 1993
BC Lara (WI)	11175	25 Mar 2006
SR Tendulkar (Ind)	11955*	17 Oct 2008

Note: Sachin Tendulkar was batting on 15 at the time of updating this statistic.