. By T.V. Antony Raj
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Yesterday, Friday March 16, 2012, playing in the 4th One Day International match of the Asia Cup 2012 against the hosts Bangladesh, Sachin Tendulkar scored a century thus becoming the only man in the history of the sport to score 100 centuries in international cricket. He took the single off Shakib Al Hasan of Bangladesh and finally achieved the elusive milestone.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh congratulated the Master Blaster saying, “I join the nation in congratulating Sachin Tendulkar on his making history – a hundred centuries… He has made India proud. Tendulkar’s long career has been a triumph of class, character and courage. Wish him many more innings and feats to continue inspiring the youth.”

ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat also congratulated the iconic batsman achieving the feat.

“On behalf of every cricket fan around the globe, I congratulate Sachin on becoming the first person to score 100 centuries for his country. This is indeed a magnificent feat and not likely to be easily emulated,” said Lorgat.

“Fans have admired Sachin for more than 20 years and have recently waited with great expectation for his 100th international century. The number 100 is special for a batsman and to record 100 centuries for your country is a massive statement.”

Lorgat also said that Tendulkar was a marvel to cricket lovers around the world and a true role model.

“Like millions of others, I have personally followed his career ever since he first played for India as a gifted 16-year-old and now, more than two decades later, his passion and personal records, which include more than 33,000 runs at international level, is a modern-day wonder.

“He is a marvel to cricket lovers around the world and with an array of batting records, Sachin is a true role model who will undoubtedly hold a special place in cricket’s history,” he said. (PTI)

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President N Srinivasan heaped praises on Sachin Tendulkar for becoming the first cricketer in the world to score 100 international centuries and said that 16th March 2012 would never be forgotten.

“Ever since he made his international début in November 1989, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar has strode cricketing arenas the world over, like a colossus. He has broken old records and set new benchmarks. He has been an inspiration to billions, and an ornament to the sport,” said Srinivasan.

“16 March 2012 will never be forgotten by cricket-lovers. On behalf of the BCCI, I would like to congratulate Sachin Tendulkar for completing a century of international centuries,” he added. (PTI)

And bollywood? Of course it went crazy and started twitting.

“God’s special creation …Sachin Tendulkar!! India breathes normally..!! Sachin completes an incredible feat!! A hundered 100’s…Never done before, perhaps never after!!!” said Amithab Bachchan.  “A lion does not concern himself with the opinions of the sheep,” the megastar tweeted hinting at Sachin’s critics.

And his son Abhishek Bachan tweeted, “How good is Sachin? he’s the best. period! stop analyzing him. stop being cynical. just celebrated him!”

The 82-year old Queen of Melody, Lata Mangeshkar, twitted: “A big congratulations to Sachin. He has once again created history with his superb innings.”

Actress Bipasha Basu tweeted:  “Saluting The Great Tendulkar for his 100th 100! We stropped our shoot to see it happen! Jubilant and Ecstatic.”

Action hero Akshay Kumar tweeted, “Salute to the man who never gave up in spite of all the criticisms. Finally he did it, Sachin creates history in world cricket! Congrats to Sachin Hundredkar.”

38-year-old cricket star, Sachin Tendulkar has scored 49 centuries in One Day International matches and 51 in international Tests.

Tendulkar scored his 99th international hundred more than a year ago on home soil. It took him more than one year to reach the milestone of scoring 100 centuries in international cricket.

His 49th ODI hundred in Dhaka brought up a unique century of centuries that no other player is close to achieving. Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting is next best with 71 international centuries, and South Africa’s Jacques Kallis trails behind him with 59.

In the 1990s, Adidas signed world’s iconic batsman Sachin Tendulkar of India and made shoes for him. Tendulkar still wears Adidas shoes while playing matches. Since 2008, Adidas has sponsored the cricket bat used by Sachin Tendulkar. It created a new bat, ‘Adidas MasterBlaster Elite’, personalized for him.

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List of 51 Test cricket centuries
(Source: List of international cricket centuries by Sachin Tendulkar)

NO.	SCORE	AGAINST	INN.	TEST	VENUE	H/A	DATE	RESULT
1	119*	England	2	2	Old Trafford, Manchester	Away	14 August 1990	Draw
2	148*	Australia	1	3	Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney	Away	6 January 1992	Draw
3	114	Australia	1	5	WACA Ground, Perth	Away	3 February 1992	Lost
4	111	South Africa	1	2	Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg	Away	28 November 1992	Draw
5	165	England	1	2	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	Home	12 February 1993	Won
6	104*	Sri Lanka	2	2	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo	Away	31 July 1993	Won
7	142	Sri Lanka	1	1	K. D. Singh Babu Stadium, Lucknow	Home	19 January 1994	Won
8	179	West Indies	1	2	Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur	Home	2 December 1994	Draw
9	122	England	2	1	Edgbaston, Birmingham	Away	8 June 1996	Lost
10	177	England	1	3	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	Away	5 July 1996	Draw
11	169	South Africa	1	2	Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town	Away	4 January 1997	Lost
12	143	Sri Lanka	1	1	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	Away	3 August 1997	Draw
13	139	Sri Lanka	1	2	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo	Away	11 August 1997	Draw
14	148	Sri Lanka	1	3	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	Home	4 December 1997	Draw
15	155*	Australia	2	1	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	Home	9 March 1998	Won
16	177	Australia	1	3	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	Home	26 March 1998	Lost
17	113	New Zealand	2	2	Basin Reserve, Wellington	Away	29 December 1998	Lost
18	136	Pakistan	2	1	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	Home	31 January 1999	Lost
19	124*	Sri Lanka	2	2	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo	Away	28 February 1999	Draw
20	126*	New Zealand	2	1	Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali	Home	13 October 1999	Draw
21	217	New Zealand	1	3	Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad	Home	30 October 1999	Draw
22	116	Australia	1	2	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne	Away	28 December 1999	Lost
23	122	Zimbabwe	1	1	Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, New Delhi	Home	21 November 2000	Won
24	201*	Zimbabwe	1	2	Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur	Home	26 November 2000	Draw
25	126	Australia	1	3	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	Home	20 March 2001	Won
26	155	South Africa	1	1	Goodyear Park, Bloemfontein	Away	3 November 2001	Lost
27	103	England	1	2	Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad	Home	13 December 2001	Draw
28	176	Zimbabwe	1	1	Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur	Home	24 February 2002	Won
29	117	West Indies	1	2	Queen’s Park Oval, Port of Spain	Away	20 April 2002	Won
30	193	England	1	3	Headingley, Leeds	Away	23 August 2002	Won
31	176	West Indies	2	3	Eden Gardens, Kolkata	Home	3 November 2002	Draw
32	241*	Australia	1	4	Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney	Away	4 January 2004	Draw
33	194*	Pakistan	1	1	Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan	Away	29 March 2004	Won
34	248*	Bangladesh	1	1	Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka	Away	12 December 2004	Won
35	109	Sri Lanka	1	2	Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, New Delhi	Home	22 December 2005	Won
36	101	Bangladesh	1	1	Bir Shrestha Shahid Ruhul Amin Stadium, Chittagong	Away	19 May 2007	Draw
37	122*	Bangladesh	1	2	Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur	Away	26 May 2007	Won
38	154*	Australia	1	2	Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney	Away	4 January 2008	Lost
39	153	Australia	1	4	Adelaide Oval, Adelaide	Away	25 January 2008	Draw
40	109	Australia	1	4	Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur	Home	6 November 2008	Won
41	103*	England	2	1	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	Home	15 December 2008	Won
42	160	New Zealand	1	1	Seddon Park, Hamilton	Away	20 March 2009	Won
43	100*	Sri Lanka	2	1	Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad	Home	20 November 2009	Draw
44	105*	Bangladesh	1	1	Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong	Away	18 January 2010	Won
45	143	Bangladesh	1	2	Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur	Away	25 January 2010	Won
46	100	South Africa	2	1	Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur	Home	9 February 2010	Lost
47	106	South Africa	1	2	Eden Gardens, Kolkata	Home	15 February 2010	Won
48	203	Sri Lanka	1	2	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo	Away	28 July 2010	Draw
49	214	Australia	1	2	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	Home	11 October 2010	Won
50	111*	South Africa	2	1	SuperSport Park, Centurion	Away	19 December 2010	Lost
51	146	South Africa	1	3	Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town	Away	4 January 2011	Draw

List of 49 ODI centuries

NO.	SCORE	AGAINST	POS.	INN.	S/R	VENUE	H/A/N	DATE	RESULT
1	110	Australia	2	1	84.61	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	Neutral	9 September 1994	Won
2	115	New Zealand	2	2	84.55	IPCL Sports Complex Ground, Vadodara	Home	28 October 1994	Won
3	105	West Indies	2	1	78.35	Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur	Home	11 November 1994	Won
4	112*	Sri Lanka	2	2	104.67	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah	Neutral	9 April 1995	Won
5	127*	Kenya	2	2	92.02	Barabati Stadium, Cuttack	Home	18 February 1996	Won
6	137	Sri Lanka	2	1	100.00	Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, New Delhi	Home	2 March 1996	Lost
7	100	Pakistan	2	1	90.09	Padang, Singapore	Neutral	5 April 1996	Lost
8	118	Pakistan	2	1	84.28	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah	Neutral	15 April 1996	Won
9	110	Sri Lanka	2	1	79.71	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	Away	28 August 1996	Lost
10	114	South Africa	1	1	90.47	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	Home	14 December 1996	Won
11	104	Zimbabwe	1	1	107.21	Willowmoore Park, Benoni	Neutral	9 February 1997	Won
12	117	New Zealand	2	2	85.40	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	Home	14 May 1997	Won
13	100	Australia	2	2	112.35	Green Park Stadium, Kanpur	Home	7 April 1998	Won
14	143	Australia	2	2	109.16	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah	Neutral	22 April 1998	Lost
15	134	Australia	2	2	102.29	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah	Neutral	24 April 1998	Won
16	100*	Kenya	2	2	97.08	Eden Gardens, Kolkata	Home	31 May 1998	Won
17	128	Sri Lanka	2	1	97.70	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	Away	7 July 1998	Won
18	127*	Zimbabwe	2	2	97.69	Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo	Away	26 September 1998	Won
19	141	Australia	2	1	110.15	Bangabandhu Stadium, Dhaka	Neutral	28 October 1998	Won
20	118*	Zimbabwe	2	2	105.35	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah	Neutral	8 November 1998	Won
21	124*	Zimbabwe	2	2	134.78	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah	Neutral	13 November 1998	Won
22	140*	Kenya	4	1	138.61	County Ground, Bristol	Neutral	23 May 1999	Won
23	120	Sri Lanka	1	1	85.10	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo	Away	29 August 1999	Won
24	186*	New Zealand	2	1	124.00	Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad	Home	8 November 1999	Won
25	122	South Africa	2	2	88.40	IPCL Sports Complex Ground, Vadodara	Home	17 March 2000	Won
26	101	Sri Lanka	2	1	72.14	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah	Neutral	20 October 2000	Lost
27	146	Zimbabwe	2	1	95.42	Barkatullah Khan Stadium, Jodhpur	Home	8 December 2000	Lost
28	139	Australia	2	1	111.20	Nehru Stadium, Indore	Home	31 March 2001	Won
29	122*	West Indies	2	2	93.12	Harare Sports Club, Harare	Neutral	4 July 2001	Won
30	101	South Africa	2	1	78.29	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg	Away	5 October 2001	Lost
31	146	Kenya	2	1	110.60	Boland Park, Paarl	Neutral	24 October 2001	Won
32	105*	England	4	1	97.22	Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street	Away	4 July 2002	N/R
33	113	Sri Lanka	4	1	110.78	County Ground, Bristol	Neutral	11 July 2002	Won
34	152	Namibia	2	1	100.66	City Oval, Pietermaritzburg	Neutral	23 February 2003	Won
35	100	Australia	2	1	84.03	Roop Singh Stadium, Gwalior	Home	26 October 2003	Won
36	102	New Zealand	2	1	112.08	Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad	Home	15 November 2003	Won
37	141	Pakistan	2	2	104.44	Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi	Away	16 March 2004	Lost
38	123	Pakistan	2	1	94.61	Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad	Home	12 April 2005	Lost
39	100	Pakistan	2	1	88.49	Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar	Away	6 February 2006	Lost
40	141*	West Indies	2	1	95.27	Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur	Neutral	14 September 2006	Lost
41	100*	West Indies	4	1	131.57	IPCL Sports Complex Ground, Vadodara	Home	31 January 2007	Won
42	117*	Australia	1	2	97.5	Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney	Away	2 March 2008	Won
43	163*	New Zealand	2	1	122.55	AMI Stadium, Christchurch	Away	8 March 2009	Won
44	138	Sri Lanka	1	1	103.76	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	Away	14 September 2009	Won
45	175	Australia	2	2	124.11	Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium,Hyderabad	Home	5 November 2009	Lost
46	200*	South Africa	2	1	136.05	Roop Singh Stadium, Gwalior	Home	24 February 2010	Won
47	120	England	2	1	104.35	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	Home	27 February 2011	Tied
48	111	South Africa	2	1	109.90	VCA Stadium, Nagpur	Home	12 March 2011	Lost
49	114	Bangladesh	2	1	77.55	Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur	Away	16 March 2012	Lost

Key

SYMBOL	MEANING
*	Remained not out
	Player of the match
	Captained the Indian cricket team
Test	The number of the Test match played in that series
Pos.	Position in the batting order
Inn.	The innings of the match
S.R.	Strike rate during the innings
H/A/N	Venue was at home (India), away or neutral
Lost	The match was lost by India
Won	The match was won by India
Drawn	The match was drawn

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