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. 12: Tendulkar's 143 allowed India to declare on 537 for 8 at the Premadasa Stadium in 1997. Sri Lanka's riposte was 952. Tendulkar said the pitch was "unfit for Test cricket", adding: "If we had lost the toss and batted second, we could also have played a massive innings. We only lost wickets because we took chances and looked for runs."[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No. 13: In the very next Test, Tendulkar scored 139 in another high-scoring contest at the SSC in Colombo.[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No. 14: Another century against Sri Lanka, this time in Mumbai in 1997. Tendulkar toiled for 71 minutes for 8 runs on the first day but found his touch on the second, moving from 87 to 99 with successive sixes off Kumar Dharmasena. During his innings of 148, Tendulkar went past 4000 Test runs, and his 256-run stand with Sourav Ganguly was an Indian record for the fourth wicket.[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No. 15: The torment of Australia, and Warne, continued in Chennai, where Tendulkar made 155 in 1998. The contest between the two champions was among the best Ian Chappell had watched. "The defining moment came just after lunch, when Warne went round the wicket with Tendulkar having just passed his fifty," Chappell wrote on ESPNcricinfo. "Tendulkar took to his offerings like a kid offered a lolly-shop gift voucher. A brace of sixes and fours from lofted sweep/pull shots to the midwicket region convinced Warne to abort this tactic. Tendulkar's preparatory work had proved to be a masterstroke."[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No. 16: Tendulkar scored 177 out of the 281 runs India added while he was at the crease against Australia in Bangalore in 1998. [/background][/size][/font][/color][i]Wisden[/i][color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)] said he was "impossible to contain" and on the second morning Tendulkar scored 60 off 64 balls, before falling to little-known Adam Dale.[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No. 17: At Napier in 1990, Tendulkar had fallen 12 short of becoming the youngest Test centurion. Eight years later, in Wellington, he made his first Test hundred in New Zealand off 123 balls.[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No 18: Tendulkar's 136, a masterclass made with a spasming back, took India to the verge of victory against Pakistan in Chennai in 1999, but the tail collapsed after he was dismissed with only 17 to get. "Because he was such a big player and in awesome form at the time, we were all pretty sure that Sachin was going to win the game for them," Moin Khan, Pakistan's wicketkeeper at the time, said years later. "But as soon as we got him out, it became obvious to us that we would win - in those days India's reliance on him was much greater than it is now."[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No. 19: Tendulkar made an unbeaten 124 in the third innings of a nondescript Test at the SSC in 1999, which ended in a draw.[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No. 20: Having spent a month recovering from back trouble, Tendulkar scored a valuable second-innings century - 126 not out - that helped India post 505 for 3 after they had collapsed for 83 in the first innings against New Zealand at Mohali in 1999.[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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Greatest Cricketer of all time.... I feel he should have continued in the test team for one more year...

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No. 21: Tendulkar scored his first double-century - 217 against New Zealand at Motera in 1999 - in his 71st Test.[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No. 22: Tendulkar made 116 out of a total of 238 at the MCG in 1999, a Test India lost by 180 runs. "Somewhat unsurprisingly, it was yet again the brilliant Tendulkar who was answering the unenviable call to shore up India's battered defences," wrote John Polack. "After an engrossing battle with a bouncer-hungry McGrath had kept him subdued through the early part of his stay, he gradually began to increase his scoring rate with a number of beautifully crafted strokes ... Quite simply, his sense of assurance and sheer range of shots against an adroitly rotated attack were perfectly applied in these hostile circumstances."[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No 23: An extract from ESPNcricinfo's report from the day: Tendulkar made 122 against Zimbabwe at the Kotla in 2000, John Wright's first Test as India coach. "Earlier, Tendulkar was visibly miffed with himself. On a flat batting track, against a friendly Zimbabwean attack, he got himself out for just 122. The way Tendulkar was batting, that should have been just the beginning. After flaying Brian Strang for three boundaries in the first over of the day, Tendulkar pounced on anything loose ... each one was a shot of class."[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#DDDDDD][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(26, 27, 29)]No. 24: The unbeaten 201 against Zimbabwe in Nagpur in 2000 was the 50th international century of Tendulkar's career. He was the first batsman to score so many. Sunil Gavaskar, Viv Richards and Desmond Haynes, all retired, had 35 hundreds, and Mark Waugh 31 at the time.[/background][/size][/font][/color]