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The opening day of the fourth Test between India and Australia, at the Adelaide Oval, turned out to be one of records for Ricky Ponting.
The former Australia captain, who was unbeaten on 137 in his team's total of 335-3 when stumps were drawn for the day, now aggregates more runs than any other batsman against India in Test cricket.
He surpassed former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd's tally of 2344 runs in 28 Tests.
Leading run scorers against India in Test cricket
| Player | For | Mts | Inns | Runs | Hs | Avg | 100s | 50s |
| RT Ponting | Aus | 29 | 50 | 2411 | 257 | 52.41 | 8 | 11 |
| CH Lloyd | WI | 28 | 44 | 2344 | 242* | 58.60 | 7 | 12 |
| Javed Miandad | Pak | 28 | 39 | 2228 | 280* | 67.52 | 5 | 14 |
| S Chanderpaul | WI | 23 | 40 | 2038 | 140 | 65.74 | 7 | 10 |
| IVA Richards | WI | 28 | 41 | 1927 | 192* | 50.71 | 8 | 7 |
| GStA Sobers | WI | 18 | 30 | 1920 | 198 | 83.48 | 8 | 7 |
| ML Hayden | Aus | 18 | 35 | 1888 | 203 | 59.00 | 6 | 8 |
| DPMD Jayawardene | SL | 18 | 28 | 1822 | 275 | 67.48 | 6 | 8 |
| Zaheer Abbas | Pak | 19 | 25 | 1740 | 235* | 87.00 | 6 | 3 |
| GA Gooch | Eng | 19 | 33 | 1725 | 333 | 55.65 | 5 | 8 |
Ponting also became only the third batsman in the history of Test cricket to score 13,000 or more runs.
Sachin Tendulkar leads the run-scoring chart in Test cricket with 15,432 runs, followed by his Indian team-mate Rahul Dravid (13,039).
The top-10 run getters in Test cricket
| Player | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | 100 | 50 | 0s |
| SR Tendulkar | 188 | 309 | 32 | 15432 | 248 | 55.71 | 51 | 65 | 14 |
| R Dravid | 164 | 284 | 32 | 13262 | 270 | 52.62 | 36 | 63 | 8 |
| R Ponting | 162 | 275 | 29 | 13039 | 257 | 53.00 | 41 | 60 | 16 |
| J Kallis | 150 | 254 | 39 | 12260 | 224 | 57.02 | 41 | 55 | 13 |
| B Lara | 131 | 232 | 6 | 11953 | 400 | 52.88 | 34 | 48 | 17 |
| A Border | 156 | 265 | 44 | 11174 | 205 | 50.56 | 27 | 63 | 11 |
| S Waugh | 168 | 260 | 46 | 10927 | 200 | 51.06 | 32 | 50 | 22 |
| S Gavaskar | 125 | 214 | 16 | 10122 | 236 | 51.12 | 34 | 45 | 12 |
| M Jayawardene | 128 | 213 | 13 | 10086 | 374 | 50.43 | 29 | 40 | 11 |
| S Chanderpaul | 137 | 234 | 37 | 9709 | 203 | 49.28 | 24 | 56 | 13 |