Birmingham, July 6: Australia captain Steve Waugh on Friday made the 35 runs he needed to become only the third player in Test cricket history to post 9,000 or more runs.

He reached the landmark and then went beyond it in his side's first innings of the First Test against England here at Edgbaston.

But the 36-year-old still has two imposing targets to surpass if he is to get to the top of the all-time table.

The only players ahead of him in the list are former India opener Sunil Gavaskar with 10,122 runs from 214 innings at an average of 51.12 and at the head of the standings is former Australia captain Allan Border, once a team-mate of Waugh's, with 11,174 runs from 265 innings at 50.56.