Sachin Tendulkar becomes first man to score 50 test hundreds
Indian batting maestro Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar on Sunday became the first batsman to score a monumental fifty centuries in Test cricket history.
Creating records and histories have become a common ritual for this 37 year old legend who finished 20 years of career in world cricket.
Much before his debut on November 15, 1989, Tendulkar's precocious talent was there to be seen when he shared an unbeaten 664-run stand with buddy Vinod Kambli in the Lord Harris Shield Inter-School Game in 1988.Despite Tendulkar's achievement, India were facing defeat in the test after a storm ended Sunday's play with the visitors on 454 for eight, 30 runs behind South Africa.
The 1989 international debut was far less spectacular, in fact forgettable. A Waqar Younis bouncer left him with a bleeding nose but Tendulkar did not wince and the next two decades saw him punishing bowlers all over the world on all kind of surfaces.
His first Test century came in England next year at Old Trafford and the diminutive Mumbaikar rose in stature after the 1991-92 tour of Australia, hitting sublime centuries on a Sydney turner and a Perth minefield.
Score Update:
India 136 & 454/8 (122.2 ov)
South Africa 620/4d
India trail by 30 runs with 2 wickets remaining
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