Batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar scored his fifth double century, after six years, to lead India's fightback in the second cricket Test against Sri Lanka at the Sinhalese Sports Club ground here Thursday.

Tendulkar, who is the all-time leading scorer in Test cricket with over 13,742 runs, scored 203 in 347 balls, and his innings was studded with 23 fours and a six.

Tendulkar is third in the list to have most double centuries and it will be tough for him to surpass either the nine made by West Indies batsman Brian Lara or the twelve made by Australian legend Donald Bradman.

With 19 innings of more than 150-plus knock, Tendulkar now shares a world record with West Indian, Brian Lara.

Tendulkar also holds the record of most Test centuries (48) and also the record for most centuries on foreign soil (27).

With his 203, Tendulkar has now 1,900 runs against Sri Lanka and out of those 1,060 were on Sri Lankan soil.

The other records of the batting maestro are as follow:

Holds a record for most international centuries (94) - 48 in Tests and 46 in One Day Internationals - 26 more than Ricky Ponting (68).

Only batsman to aggregate 1,000 runs against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka.

With eleven innings of 150-plus overseas, he holds a world record with Steve Waugh and Brian Lara.

Holds a record for most runs overseas - 7,724 (average 56.37) in 94 Tests.

Shares 18 century stands with Rahul Dravid - a world record for most century partnerships with one player.

Shares 16 double century stands (200 or more) - a world record.

With 13 Man of the Match awards, he possesses an Indian record.

With four Man of the series awards, he shares an Indian record with Kapil Dev and Anil Kumble.

Holds a record for reaching 8000 runs in least number of innings (154).

Shares a record for reaching 12,000 runs in least number of innings (247) with Ricky Ponting.