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Nice article about Sachin in Money Control webstie.
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/sports/sachin-tendulkar-reaches-new-heights100t h-ton_681591.html
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WSJ matter:
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It’s been a year and four days, but Sachin Tendulkar, the Little Master, has finally done it. He has scored 100 centuries in international cricket, an incredible sporting feat that may never be matched.
In the end, the historic milestone wasn’t reached in his backyard Mumbai. It wasn’t reached at Lord’s, the spiritual home of cricket. It wasn’t reached in the vast cauldron of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, either. It didn’t come against India’s great rival Pakistan, or the English or the Australians, or any other leading cricket-playing nations. It came against Bangladesh, in the Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka.
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Sachin Tendulkar on his way to his 100th century against Bangladesh, Thursday.
Tendulkar won’t care a jot about the venue or opposition. Any international century is special, and he’s just scored 100 of them. That’s 29 more centuries than his nearest challenger on the all-time list, Australia’s Ricky Ponting. This latest one is perhaps the sweetest, as it came when Tendulkar was facing an unfamiliar – and unfair — amount of criticism. The pressure was on.
But the pressure valve was emphatically released on Friday, March 16. The date will go down in history. Forget Pranab Mukherjee’s budget speech (if you can bear to), this was Sachin’s day. Millions of cricket fans – who had almost been more desperate for this moment than Tendulkar himself – watched as the Little Master’s score crept above 50, 60, 70, gulp, 80, then the unbelievably nervous 90s. Surely this was his moment. Please let this be his moment.
And it was.
Tendulkar scored his last century on March 12, 2011, against South Africa in a World Cup group match that India lost by three wickets. For a cricketer of his stature, the past year has been the most barren patch he has traveled through.
It’s difficult to understate this sporting achievement. Scoring 100 centuries was unthinkable before Tendulkar came along, making his debut in 1989 as a mere 16-year-old, the youngest cricketer ever to represent India. Now 38, Tendulkar is in the twilight of his career, yet he still shines as brightly as ever.
No other batsman in history has come close to achieving what Tendulkar has. He is the top scorer in Test cricket by a country mile, with over 15,000 runs to his name. Tendulkar is also the top scorer in One-Day Internationals with more than 18,000 runs, streets ahead of Ponting, who is second on the list with 13,704.
The figures don’t lie: Tendulkar is the most successful cricketer in history. But the last year hasn’t been easy, as the pressure and negativity built with every innings that fell short of that hundredth century.
He’d come close, tantalizingly so a handful of times, including that 91 he scored against England at the Oval way back in August and a 94 against the West Indies at home in Mumbai in November. The nearest he’d come on India’s recent tour of Australia was the 80 he scored in the second innings at Sydney Cricket Ground at the start of this year.
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Indian fans cheered for Sachin Tendulkar during a Test match against England, in Bangalore, December 21, 2001.
Each time he went out to bat, Tendulkar must have had the echo of a 100 million voices asking “Is this going to be the one?” ringing in his ears. Time and again, cricket watchers, from luminaries of the game such as Sunil Gavaskar, Tony Greig, Shane Warne and Sourav Ganguly, to average fans like you and me, made pre-match predictions that “today would be the day” only to see the Little Master later trudging back to the pavilion having fallen short of the triple figure mark.
In the eyes of the romantics, especially, the timing of Tendulkar’s hundredth century was almost written in the stars.
The World Cup final — which India of course won — in Mumbai was surely the stage for this great cricketer to reach this phenomenal milestone. He knows how to handle the pressure, and the big stage, and it comes no bigger than a World Cup final watched by billions. But no, he was out for 18.
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Sachin Tendulkar celebrates after scoring his last century against South Africa in Nagpur, March 12, 2011.
He didn’t feature in an ODI for many months after the World Cup. Not to worry, a Test match would be an even better stage for the hundredth, and where better than at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London, the spiritual home of cricket and a place where the Little Master had never scored a hundred before. The time was ripe when India headed to England last summer for a hotly anticipated tour between two of the world’s top Test sides. The Lord’s crowd gave Tendulkar a rousing ovation when he marched out to bat in India’s first innings, but the century never came. Tendulkar was out for 34 in the first innings and 12 in the second. As for the tour, it was a bad one for India and started the run of losses in overseas Tests that has continued to this day.
At home, India has fared better in Tests, though admittedly against weaker opposition than England and Australia. In November, the team beat the West Indies by five wickets in Delhi, and then by an innings and 15 runs in Kolkata. The final match of that three-Test series was a draw, but that was notable for the fact that it was the closest Tendulkar has come to scoring his hundredth.
Again the stars seemed aligned, the match was on a batsman-friendly wicket in Mumbai – Tendulkar’s hometown – and the stadium was packed with fans more interested in seeing if this would be the Little Master’s day. Whether India won, lost or drew was secondary. Cheered on with every shot, Tendulkar roared into the 90’s in that innings, but it wasn’t to be at the Wankhede Stadium, which slid into eerie silence when the batsman was caught in the slips by Darren Sammy for 94.
Cricket fans, not used to being disappointed by Tendulkar, would have to wait for yet another day. For the batsman, the hundredth century had become a heavy weight around his neck. Meanwhile his team-mates and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni would have to continue fielding questions about the impact Tendulkar’s pursuit was having, not just on the player but on the Indian team as a whole.
On Friday he was eventually out for 114. But he’d got that century at last. Tendulkar, Dhoni, the rest of the Indian team, and cricket fans the world over, can breathe a huge sigh of relief, and of course start an endless round of rapturous applause.
– Will Davies is an editor of India Real Time. Follow him on Twitter @willmhdavies
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Gabbar_singh:What is surprising, though, is that it took Tendulkar 34 innings to move from 99 to 100 centuries, especially since he was in such scintillating form from the beginning of 2008 till the 2011 World Cup. During that period, he averaged 65.21 in Tests, 52.41 in ODIs, and had struck a mindboggling 21 hundreds in 104 innings. During this period, no other batsman had scored as many hundreds: Ricky Ponting had 11 in 147, and Jacques Kallis 13 in 113
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Stewie:Bowling chesi 1 Wicket theeste 200 Wickets roooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Neeko dandam saami.. |
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Stewie:Bowling chesi 1 Wicket theeste 200 Wickets roooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
 annai emi stat gurthu chesav annai.
200 wickets already. okati aadina ekaiaka t20 lo vachindi
naakkonchem tikkundi. kani daniko lekkundi
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Bowling chesi 1 Wicket theeste 200 Wickets roooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Patha Signature teeseysa
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http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/284175.html
A real unmatched feat, this record will never be broken, evadu daridappullo leru.,
SOTW-koyila paata bagundaa
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Gabbar_singh:
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haav nijame, rondu kumm ladd ga...
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Godfather:Adi gaa vappy gaa enjoy cheyochu gaa.
exactly mama. ilati moments life ki oka sari kooda raavu chala mandiki. manaki avakasam vachindi. oka 2 days happy ga enjoy cheyyachu kada sachin meeda edavakunda, context lo leni players ni tecchi vaallani gurinchi goppalu cheppakunda?
naakkonchem tikkundi. kani daniko lekkundi
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Godfather:
SOTW-koyila paata bagundaa
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Ferrari
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BTDB Rocks!!
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Godfather
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Adi gaa vappy gaa enjoy cheyochu gaa.. Grudges ohh 2 days poyaka choosu kovachu.. ittanti moments epudo oka sari vostayi.. |
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“The true greats – the really, really, really great – transcend their sport, become almost god-like, and gods don’t go to the supermarket for their shopping. Tendulkar, a legend in his own career, is on the top table with Tiger, Jordan and Pele,” writes BBC Sport’s Ben Dirs in his blog. |
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What is surprising, though, is that it took Tendulkar 34 innings to move from 99 to 100 centuries, especially since he was in such scintillating form from the beginning of 2008 till the 2011 World Cup. During that period, he averaged 65.21 in Tests, 52.41 in ODIs, and had struck a mindboggling 21 hundreds in 104 innings. During this period, no other batsman had scored as many hundreds: Ricky Ponting had 11 in 147, and Jacques Kallis 13 in 113
nothing more need to be told for the people who want to cry.
naakkonchem tikkundi. kani daniko lekkundi
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Godfather:Virender Sehwag: @sachin_rt paaji congratulations!Its a small thing for you but a phenomenal historic achievement. Dinner's on me when we meet. Many more
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My last stretch 4 mor dys to go Can't wait fr it to end Set me free dear lord livestrong yuvstrong
3 days back tweet idi.. treatment loo vunatu vunnadu.. |
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Yuvi em tweet chesaadu? |
Godfather
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Kevin Petersien: Seriously has anyone actually thought about what Sachin has done here?? 100 100's!!!! Absolutely unbelievable.. Batters dream!
Virender Sehwag: @sachin_rt paaji congratulations!Its a small thing for you but a phenomenal historic achievement. Dinner's on me when we meet. Many more |
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Naa saami  |
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http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/sports/2012/03/16/seg-thomas-india-sachin-t endulkar.cnn
CNN loo 2 mins..  |
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