Tendulkar took 138 balls to reach the milestone which had eluded him more for than a year. His 99th hundred had came on March 12, 2011 against South Africa during the Cricket World Cup held in India.
The master batsman, who made his debut in international cricket way back in 1989, has now scored 51 centuries in Tests and 49 in ODIs.
He also has the record of scoring centuries against all the Test playing nations. Incidentally, this was
Sachin’s maiden ton in ODIs against Bangladesh.
His first Test century came in 1991 at Manchester against England while he hit his maiden ODI ton against Australia at Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The master batsman, who is the highest run-getter in both Tests and ODIs, has amassed 15,470 runs in 188 Tests so far. In 462 ODIs, he has scored more than 18,000 runs.
Sachin, who helped his team win the ODI world Cup after 28 years in 2011, was Wisden’s cricketer
of the year in 2010.
He recently received the ESPN Cricinfo award for the best individual Test batting performance of 2011 for his knock of 146 not out against South Africa at Cape Town. And not to forget, he was the leading run-scorer for India in the ICC cricket World Cup 2011, and the second-highest run scorer in the tournament after Dilshan.
Apart from his 100 tons, he has scored 65 half-centuries in Tests while in ODIs he has slammed 95 fifties.
With an over two decade long career, records are fairly routine for Tendulkar but for the cricketing fraternity every run he scores just adds to the legend that the diminutive right-hander has become.
The champion batsman has perhaps every batting record that is there to be taken under his belt and adding to the countless tally is the historic hundred he scored against England in the post-lunch session.
Much before his debut on November 15, 1989, Tendulkar's precocious talent was there to be seen when he shared an unbeaten 664-run stand with buddy Vinod Kambli in the Lord Harris Shield Inter-School Game in 1988.
The 1989 international debut was far less spectacular, in fact forgettable. A Waqar Younis bouncer left him with a bleeding nose but Tendulkar did not wince and the next two decades saw him punishing bowlers all over the world on all kind of surfaces.
His first Test century came in England next year at Old Trafford and the Mumbaikar rose in stature after the 1991-92 tour of Australia, hitting sublime centuries on a Sydney turner and a Perth minefield.
The rest is history. No existing batting record seemed safe. Other than Brian Lara's Test match highest of 400 not out and first class highest score of 501 not out, every batting record became Tendulkar's.
A staggering 15470 runs scored in 188 Tests at a robust average of 55.44 confirmed Tendulkar's greatness in the longer version of the game.
And in the 462 ODIs he has played, the little master has scored 18374 runs with an impressive average of 44.81.
All-round Team India beat Sri Lanka by 50 runs
DHAKA: India’s Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir both cracked their 10th one-day centuries to set up a comfortable 50-run victory over Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup in Dhaka on Tuesday. Man-of-the-match Kohli (108) and left-handed opener Gambhir (100) added 205 runs for the second wicket as India posted a challenging 304-3 before bowling Sri Lanka out for 254 in the day-night match. Seamer Irfan Pathan was the pick of India’s bowlers with four wickets, while off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and paceman Vinay Kumar took three apiece. Sri Lanka raced to 122 in the opening 18 overs, thanks to skipper Mahela Jayawardene, who kept alive his team’s hopes of hunting down a stiff target with a brisk 59-ball 78. But they suffered a setback when Jayawardene was caught behind off Irfan in the 19th over after smashing two sixes and 10 fours. He added 93 for the second wicket with Kumar Sangakkara (65).
Sri Lanka’s chances receded sharply after the dismissal of Sangakkara, caught at deep mid-wicket off Ashwin, who also trapped Lahiru Thirimanne (29) in the same over. Vinay removed Nuwan Kulasekara and Chamara Kapugedera off successive deliveries as Sri Lanka were reduced to 216-7, losing four wickets for 20 runs. Kohli earlier top-scored for India with his second successive hundred against Sri Lanka, having made an unbeaten 133 at Hobart in the recent triangular one-day series in Australia. India plundered 78 runs off the last 7.1 overs, with skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni smashing a 26-ball 46 not out and Suresh Raina an unbeaten 30 off just 17 balls. India lost Sachin Tendulkar early in the innings before Gambhir and Kohli bolstered their team with their impressive knocks. Tendulkar, chasing an elusive 100th international century, could make only six runs before pushing a Suranga Lakmal full-toss straight to Jayawardene in the covers. Sri Lanka then had to wait for 37 overs to get their next wicket as Gambhir and Kohli continued to gather runs comfortably against both pace and spin. The pair reached their centuries in the 42nd over before both falling in the next over off seamer Farveez Maharoof as they attempted to step up the run-rate. Gambhir, dropped on 36, made the most of the chance and hit seven fours in his 118-ball knock, while Kohli also struck the same number of boundaries in his 120-ball innings.
Bhupathi-Bopanna win Dubai Open title
sandstorm dropping a blanket of haze over the desert city. Then, as
the sun came down on a chilly March evening, with harsh winds blowing
across the Aviation Club, a pair of Indians - Rohan Bopanna and Mahesh
Bhupathi - provided the fireworks that lit up the night at the Dubai
Duty Free ATP World Tour tournament. Bopanna and Bhupathi outpaced
their opponents Poles Mariuz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski to
clinch their first title as a team.Bhupathi and Bopanna, the number
four seeds, came through 6-4, 3-6,10-5, taking 70 minutes to stop
their opponents. The winners take home a cheque of $120,850 and 500
points. While the money won't hurt, the points will help Bopanna, who
celebrates his 32nd birthday on Sunday,to break back into the top-10
of the individual rankings when the new order is released on Monday"I
have been in so many finals here, five I think, and this is how I
remember Saturday night. We've always got great support here,"Bhupathi
said.Bhupathi, the veteran pro in the partnership, said they felt a
few jitters at the start of the final. "We did well to recover from
the second set," the 37-year-old said, "the key to the match was
starting
off well in the super tie-break."After playing strongly to clinch the
opening set, the all-Indian pairing slipped a touch when the powerful
Kodava was broken in the second game of the second set. The duo had
chances to break back, but failed to nail their returns, allowing the
match to slip into the super-tie-break in which they produced a near
flawless effort.
If Bhupathi was solid then Bopanna displayed crackling form. Outside
of an overhead he buried into the net in the ninth point, the birthday
boy was at his blazing best. A down-the-middle forehand in which he
split the court to put his team ahead 7-3 was one of the many bombs he
sent across the net in the decider. The shot of the match came on the
pair's first match point when Bopanna cracked the Fyrstenberg serve
with a backhand that whizzed past a clueless Matkowski, who was
stranded at the net.
Bopanna, 6 ft 4 with a sledge-hammer serve, was particularly
appreciative of his senior's partner's contribution in his development
as a player, saying his experience counted especially in big matches
when the situation got tight. "He has 17 years of experience on the
Tour which is really huge," Bopanna said, "I've been part of the Davis
Cup for 10 years now and he has helped me at every stage in my
career,even before we became friends. He always kept in touch. It's a
good opportunity for me to play alongside Mahesh."
Bhupathi said the partnership fed off a friendship in which
communication was easy. "We speak a lot on the court," he said, "We
are not afraid to tell the other when he's not doing the right
thing.We feed off our strengths and we are both aware of our strengths
and weaknesses that makes us dangerous as a team."
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: faheem mc <mcfaheem@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 10:13:31 +0530
Subject: Bhupathi-Bopanna win Dubai Open title
To: go@blogger.com
DUBAI: It was grey skies in the city for much of Saturday; a mild
sandstorm dropping a blanket of haze over the desert city. Then, as
the sun came down on a chilly March evening, with harsh winds blowing
across the Aviation Club, a pair of Indians - Rohan Bopanna and Mahesh
Bhupathi - provided the fireworks that lit up the night at the Dubai
Duty Free ATP World Tour tournament. Bopanna and Bhupathi outpaced
their opponents Poles Mariuz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski to
clinch their first title as a team.
Bhupathi and Bopanna, the number four seeds, came through 6-4, 3-6,
10-5, taking 70 minutes to stop their opponents. The winners take home
a cheque of $120,850 and 500 points. While the money won't hurt, the
points will help Bopanna, who celebrates his 32nd birthday on Sunday,
to break back into the top-10 of the individual rankings when the new
order is released on Monday
"I have been in so many finals here, five I think, and this is how I
remember Saturday night. We've always got great support here,"
Bhupathi said.
Bhupathi, the veteran pro in the partnership, said they felt a few
jitters at the start of the final. "We did well to recover from the
second set," the 37-year-old said, "the key to the match was starting
off well in the super tie-break."
After playing strongly to clinch the opening set, the all-Indian
pairing slipped a touch when the powerful Kodava was broken in the
second game of the second set. The duo had chances to break back, but
failed to nail their returns, allowing the match to slip into the
super-tie-break in which they produced a near flawless effort.
If Bhupathi was solid then Bopanna displayed crackling form. Outside
of an overhead he buried into the net in the ninth point, the birthday
boy was at his blazing best. A down-the-middle forehand in which he
split the court to put his team ahead 7-3 was one of the many bombs he
sent across the net in the decider. The shot of the match came on the
pair's first match point when Bopanna cracked the Fyrstenberg serve
with a backhand that whizzed past a clueless Matkowski, who was
stranded at the net.
Bopanna, 6 ft 4 with a sledge-hammer serve, was particularly
appreciative of his senior's partner's contribution in his development
as a player, saying his experience counted especially in big matches
when the situation got tight. "He has 17 years of experience on the
Tour which is really huge," Bopanna said, "I've been part of the Davis
Cup for 10 years now and he has helped me at every stage in my career,
even before we became friends. He always kept in touch. It's a good
opportunity for me to play alongside Mahesh."
Bhupathi said the partnership fed off a friendship in which
communication was easy. "We speak a lot on the court," he said, "We
are not afraid to tell the other when he's not doing the right thing.
We feed off our strengths and we are both aware of our strengths and
weaknesses that makes us dangerous as a team."
