March 16, 2012. After a long wait of 370 days, SachinTendulkar finally scored his hundredth international century. Arunabha Sengupta looks back at the history-making moment that landmark was reached, and the days that preceded and followed it.
March 16 2013, 11:00 am
Read MoreMay 8, 1923. A 40-year-old Jack Hobbs put injuries and ailment behind him to score his 100th First-Class century.Arunabha Sengupta recalls the innings against Somerset at Bath that made the master only the third batsman to reach the milestone.
May 8 2013, 11:21 am
Read MoreSachin Tendulkar reached his 100th international hundred on March 16, 2012. Abhishek Mukherjee looks back at how significant this number is, and why the number will, in all likelihood, will remain elusive for generations of cricketers to come.
March 16 2013, 10:42 pm
Read MoreBy CricketCountry Staff When Sachin Tendulkar became the first batsman in men’s One-Day Internationals (ODIs), the Railway Budget presented by Mamta Banerjee on that day swamped by the maestro’s achievements in the front page of the following day’s Indian newspapers.
March 16 2012, 11:35 pm
Read MoreBy CricketCountry Staff Former Indian batsman Dilip Vengsarkar believes if Sachin Tendulkar reaches the milestone of 100 hundreds in the ongoing Test series, it will be a landmark for the entire country.
November 8 2011, 2:10 pm
Read MoreIndia fans hoping Sachin Tendulkar would make his hundredth international century in the World Cup final against Sri Lanka on Saturday were stunned when he fell for just 18.
April 2 2011, 8:33 pm
Read MoreMarch 16, 2012, was a landmark day for India. It was a day when the then Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, declared the Union Budget for the financial year 2012-13. The budget was one that flattered to deceive the public. While Pranab babu saved the Indian taxpayer Rs 4,500 crore in direct taxes, he took away almost 10 times that amount in indirect taxes. Meanwhile, as Mukherjee dabbled in figures mounting to billions and billions in the parliament in Delhi, about a thousand miles east of the venue, another Indian was riddling in humongous numbers.
March 16 2013, 5:39 pm
Read MoreBy Nishad Pai Vaidya In four visits to Lord’s Tendulkar has not even managed even one half-century. This could be his final hurrah at Lord’s and what better an occasion than the 2000th Test in the history of the game to score his 100th century for India.
July 20 2011, 12:33 pm
Read MoreYuvraj Singh, while addressing the media for the first time since returning from the USA where he was undergoing treatment for a rare germ cell cancer, said senior teammate Sachin Tendulkar, who even met him in London, has been a huge inspiration but it was unfortunate he couldn’t be with the master blaster during the historic innings.
January 3 2013, 3:54 pm
Read MoreStar cricketer Sachin Tendulkar along with his wife Anjali today paid a courtesy visit to Congress President Sonia Gandhi at her 10 Janpath Residence on Thursday.
April 26 2012, 4:33 pm
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