It will be yet another milestone achieved by the master craftsman who chose the momentous occasion to drive down memory lane and relive every moment of that fascinating journey from a cherubic school kid to a legend.

Tendulkar, who will follow Sri Lankan great Sanath Jayasuriya into the one-day record books, said that tomorrow will be no different. He would aim to do what he has done in these 18 years -- score runs and help India win the game.

"I am hoping I will perform well and get runs to help India win the game," said the 34-year-old batsman ahead of the fifth match in the series. "My approach would be the same. I would treat it as just another game. 400 is just a number and my approach to it would be as normal as ever," the soft-spoken Tendulkar said. "I am taking each match at a time. The 400th one-dayer happens to be against Australia. It could have been against any other team. My preparations are not going to be any different," he added.

He said that the series against Australia is going to be a very competitive one. "Our preparations have been good so far and I am hoping is that we can implement our plans tomorrow," he said. When he turns out against the Australians in the fifth ODI, Tendulkar will become only the second player after Sri Lanka's Sanath Jayasuriya to reach the landmark.

In fact, the two veterans have been progressing neck-and-neck with the left-hander pipping the Mumbaikar when he took the field against England at Dambulla in the ongoing one-day series. Tendulkar is the most prolific one-day batsman in the history of the game with 15,563 runs in his 399 ODIs to date. He has a world record of 41 centuries in the format at an average of 44.21.

He has been also useful with the ball taking 152 wickets at an average of 44. In comparison, Jayasuriya has 12,178 runs in 401 ODIs at an average of 32.73 with 25 hundreds. A look at the 10 players with the highest number of ODIs to their name reveals that it has four Indians - Tendulkar, Mohammad Azharuddin, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly - three Sri Lankans and two Pakistanis Former Australian captain Steve Waugh is the only person in the list from outside the sub-continent with 325 matches. (Agencies)