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First Indian and First Player from Asia to reach Landmark 50,000 runs in all Formats of Cricket. October 2013 .

Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first Indian and first cricket player from Asia to reach and cross 50,000 runs in all formats of competitive cricket. With this feat he also becomes the 16th player ever to reach this landmark. October 05th, 2013.

Event: CLT20 : Mumbai Indian’s beat Trindad and Tobago : In the semi-final, on Saturday Oct 05th, Mumbai Indians beat Trinidad and Tobago by 6 wickets and 5 balls to spare. Chasing 154 for victory the IPL Champions rode on a brilliant half century from Dwayne Smith 59, and an elegant 35 from Tendulkar.

In this knock Sachin Tendulkar the master blaster reached yet another landmark and became the 16th player and the first in Asia and the first Indian to reach 50,000 runs in cricket.

The 40-year old Tendulkar now has 50,000 runs in 953 competitive matches, which include 551 List A matches, 307 first-class matches and 95 T20 games.

Coming Up: The maestro is also standing on the cusp of another rare feat of becoming the first player in the history of the game to play 200 Test Matches.

The complete records of Sachin Tendulkar : coming up soon.

First Indian Elected to Board of Governors of the CFA Institute . October 2013 .

Sunil B. Singhania has been elected to serve on the Board of Governors of CFA Institute for a term of 3 years making him the first from India.

Singhania is among the 18-member Board of Governors that represent 11 countries – Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, Turkey, UAE, UK and the USA.

Sunil Singhania serves as the Chief Investment Officer (Equity Investments) of Reliance Capital Asset Management.

He graduated in Commerce from Bombay University. Then completed his Chartered Accountancy ICAI for Delhi. Subsequently his CFA. Additionally he completed a course for Derivatives conducted by the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Amongst other accompolishments, he also sat on the ‘Standards & Practice Council’ of the CFA Institute,USA for 6 years. Being the first and the only thus far based in India.

Sunil was the Founder of the Indian Association of Investment Professionals, the CFA India Society and was its President for a continuous period of 6 years.

CFA Institute : Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute is the global association of Investment Professionals. The Board of Governors is the Senior most body of CFA Institute, with ultimate responsibility for its strategy and management.