sachin tendulkar test centuries

Twenty years and five days after his first Test appearance, Sachin Tendulkar made his 43rd century yesterday. It was less dazzling than most of the previous 42 but there was a sense of inevitability that he would mark his two decades as an international batsman and it ensured that India saved the first Test match against Sri Lanka in Ahmedabad.

From his 263 innings, Tendulkar now has five more Test hundreds than Ricky Ponting, his closest rival, and he has also scored 45 one-day centuries. India lost only two wickets on the fifth day in reaching 412 for four and only 21 wickets fell in the entire match.

Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar has reached yet another milestone in his career by completing a phenomenal 30,000 runs in International Cricketduring the ongoing 1st Test Match of India vs Sri Lanka at Ahmedabad on Friday, 20th November 2009.

Tendulkar, who completed 20 glorious years in cricket on last Sunday, 15th November 2009, needed just 35 runs to reach the landmark at the start of India’s second innings in the Ahmedabad Test against Sri Lanka. He got the landmark tucking Chanaka Welegedera for a single through midwicket.

Tendulkar is the highest run scorer in both Test matches and ODIs, and also the batsman with the most centuries in either form of the game. The first player to score fifty centuries in all international cricket combined, he now has eighty-seven international centuries.

Tendulkar has 17,178 runs in ODI cricket, 10 runs in the only T20 International he’s played, and 12,812 Test runs at the time the landmark was reached.

Tendulkar at 30,000 runs is followed by Australian captain Ricky Ponting, who had recently crossed 24,000 runs.

Earlier, Sri Lanka had made a record score of 760-7 replying to India’s first innings score of 426.

The wicket’s still good and it’s likely India would be able to save this Test playing positively.

$Boopathi$, November 22, 2009