Sachin Tendulkar : All 51 Test Centuries Gallery Archive

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No. 25: The 126 in Chennai against Australia in 2001 helped India win one of the greatest series of all time. He reached the century with his second six, off Colin Miller, and also hit 15 fours. Three came in an over from Shane Warne. Two were played to the fine-leg boundary after which, Warne, bowling from round the wicket, bounced Tendulkar, who responded with an upper-cut to the third-man boundary.[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No. 26: Another hundred in defeat - 155 in Bloemfontein in 2001 - on Virender Sehwag's debut. During the innings Tendulkar, at 28 years and 193 days, became the youngest to score 7000 runs. He reached his century off 114 balls and at one point had hit eight fours in 18 deliveries. "I didn't want to think about what was coming next," Tendulkar said afterwards. "I thought let's just deal with the present. My first line to him [Sehwag] when he came in was `I know you're tense. You're never going to be this tense again, so enjoy the moment'."[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No. 27: His 103 at Motera in 2001 was more than a third of India's first-innings total against England. "Tendulkar was supreme in the afternoon, ridiculing England's packed off-side fields by whipping balls from outside off through the leg side at will," [/background][/size][/font][/color][i]Wisden[/i][color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)] reported. "Hussain's captaincy was enthusiastic, clear-sighted and, at times, uncompromisingly negative: he never allowed the game to drift, marshalled his limited resources intelligently and posed Tendulkar question upon question, most of which were answered perfectly."[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No. 28: Tendulkar's 176 against Zimbabwe in Nagpur 2001 set up India's innings victory. The century took him to one fewer than Don Bradman's tally of 29.[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No. 29: Tendulkar's 117 - his first Test century in the West Indies - helped India win a tense Test in Trinidad by 37 runs in 2001. "Following a difficult start - on 6, he survived a confident claim for a catch at the wicket off Sanford - Tendulkar settled to build his 29th Test hundred, which put him level with Don Bradman, though he had taken 93 Tests to Bradman's 52," [/background][/size][/font][/color][i]Wisden[/i][color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)] reported. "It was a resolute rather than commanding innings."[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No. 30: Tendulkar scored 193 in his 99th Test, at Headlingley in 2002, contributing significantly to India's innings-and-46-run victory. "The beauty of Tendulkar is the ability to make shots that the merely very good players cannot - and the wiser 29-year-old model even does it without risk," wrote Rahul Bhattacharya in the [/background][/size][/font][/color][i]Guardian[/i][color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]. "His wrists are a curious mix of clay and steel: able to take any shape, then, trading suppleness for force for the briefest moment that bat meets ball. Yesterday he swirled his way about on the onside as if it was his very own version of leg theory."[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No. 31: India were 11 for 2, needing to erase a 139-run deficit against West Indies, when Tendulkar rallied with 176 to save the game in Kolkata, 2002. "It has been said innumerable times in the past, most loudly by his critics, that Tendulkar fails to make runs when India need it the most," wrote Anand Vasu for Cricinfo. "Today ... not being altogether destructive, or indeed too defensive, Tendulkar remained unbeaten on 114 as the players walked off the field."[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No. 11: Tendulkar's 169 at Newlands in 1997 was part of a thrilling stand with Mohammad Azharuddin. They added 222 in 40 overs. Tendulkar carried on after his partner fell, and helped India avoid the follow-on. He was eventually the last man out, and it needed one of the great out-field catches of all time from Adam Bacher to end it.[/background][/size][/font][/color]
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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No. 32: Tendulkar ended a two-year fallow period with an unbeaten 241 at the SCG in 2004, an innings in which he cut out shots between mid-off and point because he was falling to them. "I would put this innings right at the top of my hundreds," he said. "I am happy that I was able to maintain the discipline throughout the innings. Things had gone wrong a couple of times with my shot selection, and I knew I had to cut out a few strokes."[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No. 33: The 194 in Multan in 2004 was controversial. Tendulkar, who was batting slowly, was denied a shot at a double-century when Rahul Dravid declared as India pushed for victory. "Even the greatest have their goals, dreams and milestones, and a double-century against Pakistan in Pakistan would have been a memory to treasure," John Wright, India's coach, wrote in his book. "After a sleepless night, I spoke to Tendulkar who confirmed that he'd wanted the team to cut him some slack. Then he and Dravid talked it through and resolved the matter."[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No. 34: The 248 in Dhaka in 2004 was Tendulkar's highest score and it brought him level with Sunil Gavaskar's world record number of centuries. "I said to him my expectations are higher and I want not 40 but 50 Test hundreds from him," Gavaskar said. "When I saw Sachin play a flick wide of mid-on in the nets for the [Ranji] Probables team I knew here was a special talent."[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No. 35: The 109 against Sri Lanka at the Kotla in 2005 gave Tendulkar the world record. "His 35th hundred was not his prettiest. A large part of it was a struggle," wrote Sambit Bal. "But it will remain a memorable one. And who knows, it could even be a liberating one. How his career shapes from here might depend on how much freedom he grants himself."[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No. 36: The 101 in Chittagong in 2007 came 17 months, 10 Tests and 17 innings after No. 35, the longest gap Tendulkar endured between centuries. "After 17 years, I don't think I have a point to prove," Tendulkar said. "I would dedicate this to my father as it was his eighth death anniversary yesterday. So, this one was pretty emotional."[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No. 37: The unbeaten 122 in the next Test in Dhaka wasn't pretty. "Tendulkar couldn't improvise and play a scoring shot when deceived by the slowness of the wicket," Sidharth Monga wrote for Cricinfo. "Not long ago, you'd describe him as a batsman who had two shots for every ball; here he was struggling to do anything more than nudge it to leg. It was all the more painful to see him make the conditions and bowling look more difficult than they probably were."[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No. 38: An unbeaten 154 at the SCG in 2008, aka Monkeygate. "Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting," one banner read. "They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching." Another said: "Sachin Cricket Ground." Tendulkar called the SCG "one of my favourite grounds . Sometimes you walk on the field and it gives you good feelings. It is one of those grounds."[/background][/size][/font][/color]