Sachin scores 100 centuries (videos)

Sachin completes his 100th century....

"The God of cricket" as he is often dubbed as  achieved a milestone of being the only player (until now and perhaps forever will be so) to get 100 centuries. A feat which has put him in the same league with the likes of pele, michael phelpss and other such luminaries from across the sporting fraternity.

But it doesn't at all mean that sachin didn't had to face tough times. On the contrary there were plenty. There were career threatening injuries, lack of form, criticisms all along the road. Mental toughness has seen Sachin come out of all his injuries - back, shoulder, toe, tennis elbow. Even for the last century Sachin really had to give a test of his patience, when the whole country (INDIA) which worships him as the god didn't hesitate to trash him. Some even advised that Sachin should retire following the footsteps of his colleague (Rahul Dravid). Actually often we cosider our role models to be gods or characters to have come out from the pages of comic book. We tend to forget that they are actually humans.

In his anthology, IT TAKES ALL SORTS, Peter Roebuck the late cricket writer, captures the Tendulkar mania with the sharp objectivity of an outsider:" For 15 of his 30 years (he wrote this a few years back ) Tendulkar has lived with the worship of a cricket mad public that wants him to be infallible, ruthless and destructive, supporters inclined to forget that he emerged from a womb and not from the pages of a comic book."

Here is the list of Sachin Tendulkar’s hundred tons in international cricket:

Sl no	Score	Against	Format	Ground	Date
1	119*	England	Test	Manchester	9-Aug-90
2	148*	Australia	Test	Sydney	2-Jan-92
3	114	Australia	Test	Perth	1-Feb-92
4	111	South Africa	Test	Johannesburg	26-Nov-92
5	165	England	Test	Chennai	11-Feb-93
6	104*	Sri Lanka	Test	Colombo (SSC)	27-Jul-93
7	142	Sri Lanka	Test	Lucknow	18-Jan-94
8	110	Australia	ODI	Colombo (RPS)	9-Sep-94
9	115	New Zealand	ODI	Baroda	28-Oct-94
10	105	West Indies	ODI	Jaipur	11-Nov-94
11	179	West Indies	Test	Nagpur	1-Dec-94
12	112*	Sri Lanka	ODI	Sharjah	9-Apr-95
13	127*	Kenya	ODI	Cuttack	18-Feb-96
14	137	Sri Lanka	ODI	Delhi	2-Mar-96
15	100	Pakistan	ODI	Singapore	5-Apr-96
16	118	Pakistan	ODI	Sharjah	15-Apr-96
17	122	England	Test	Birmingham	6-Jun-96
18	177	England	Test	Nottingham	4-Jul-96
19	110	Sri Lanka	ODI	Colombo (RPS)	28-Aug-96
20	114	South Africa	ODI	Mumbai	14-Dec-96
21	169	South Africa	Test	Cape Town	2-Jan-97
22	104	Zimbabwe	ODI	Benoni	9-Feb-97
23	117	New Zealand	ODI	Bangalore	14-May-97
24	143	Sri Lanka	Test	Colombo (RPS)	2-Aug-97
25	139	Sri Lanka	Test	Colombo (SSC)	9-Aug-97
26	148	Sri Lanka	Test	Mumbai	3-Dec-97
27	155*	Australia	Test	Chennai	6-Mar-98
28	177	Australia	Test	Bangalore	25-Mar-98
29	100	Australia	ODI	Kanpur	7-Apr-98
30	143	Australia	ODI	Sharjah	22-Apr-98
31	134	Australia	ODI	Sharjah	24-Apr-98
32	100*	Kenya	ODI	Kolkata	31-May-98
33	128	Sri Lanka	ODI	Colombo (RPS)	7-Jul-98
34	127*	Zimbabwe	ODI	Bulawayo	26-Sep-98
35	141	Australia	ODI	Dhaka	28-Oct-98
36	118*	Zimbabwe	ODI	Sharjah	8-Nov-98
37	124*	Zimbabwe	ODI	Sharjah	13-Nov-98
38	113	New Zealand	Test	Wellington	26-Dec-98
39	136	Pakistan	Test	Chennai	28-Jan-99
40	124*	Sri Lanka	Test	Colombo (SSC)	24-Feb-99
41	140*	Kenya	ODI	Bristol	23-May-99
42	120	Sri Lanka	ODI	Colombo (SSC)	29-Aug-99
43	126*	New Zealand	Test	Mohali	10-Oct-99
44	217	New Zealand	Test	Ahmedabad	29-Oct-99
45	186*	New Zealand	ODI	Hyderabad	8-Nov-99
46	116	Australia	Test	Melbourne	26-Dec-99
47	122	South Africa	ODI	Baroda	17-Mar-00
48	101	Sri Lanka	ODI	Sharjah	20-Oct-00
49	122	Zimbabwe	Test	Delhi	18-Nov-00
50	201*	Zimbabwe	Test	Nagpur	25-Nov-00
51	146	Zimbabwe	ODI	Jodhpur	8-Dec-00
52	126	Australia	Test	Chennai	18-Mar-01
53	139	Australia	ODI	Indore	31-Mar-01
54	122*	West Indies	ODI	Harare	4-Jul-01
55	101	South Africa	ODI	Johannesburg	5-Oct-01
56	146	Kenya	ODI	Paarl	24-Oct-01
57	155	South Africa	Test	Bloemfontein	3-Nov-01
58	103	England	Test	Ahmedabad	11-Dec-01
59	176	Zimbabwe	Test	Nagpur	21-Feb-02
60	117	West Indies	Test	Port of Spain	19-Apr-02
61	105*	England	ODI	Chester-le-Street	4-Jul-02
62	113	Sri Lanka	ODI	Bristol	11-Jul-02
63	193	England	Test	Leeds	22-Aug-02
64	176	West Indies	Test	Kolkata	30-Oct-02
65	152	Namibia	ODI	Pietermaritzburg	23-Feb-03
66	100	Australia	ODI	Gwalior	26-Oct-03
67	102	New Zealand	ODI	Hyderabad	15-Nov-03
68	241*	Australia	Test	Sydney	2-Jan-04
69	141	Pakistan	ODI	Rawalpindi	16-Mar-04
70	194*	Pakistan	Test	Multan	28-Mar-04
71	248*	Bangladesh	Test	Dhaka	10-Dec-04
72	123	Pakistan	ODI	Ahmedabad	12-Apr-05
73	109	Sri Lanka	Test	Delhi	10-Dec-05
74	100	Pakistan	ODI	Peshawar	6-Feb-06
75	141*	West Indies	ODI	Kuala Lumpur	14-Sep-06
76	100*	West Indies	ODI	Baroda	31-Jan-07
77	101	Bangladesh	Test	Chittagong	18-May-07
78	122*	Bangladesh	Test	Dhaka	25-May-07
79	154*	Australia	Test	Sydney	2-Jan-08
80	153	Australia	Test	Adelaide	24-Jan-08
81	117*	Australia	ODI	Sydney	2-Mar-08
82	109	Australia	Test	Nagpur	6-Nov-08
83	103*	England	Test	Chennai	11-Dec-08
84	163*	New Zealand	ODI	Christchurch	8-Mar-09
85	160	New Zealand	Test	Hamilton	18-Mar-09
86	138	Sri Lanka	ODI	Colombo (RPS)	14-Sep-09
87	175	Australia	ODI	Hyderabad	5-Nov-09
88	100*	Sri Lanka	Test	Ahmedabad	16-Nov-09
89	105*	Bangladesh	Test	Chittagong	17-Jan-10
90	143	Bangladesh	Test	Dhaka	24-Jan-10
91	100	South Africa	Test	Nagpur	6-Feb-10
92	106	South Africa	Test	Kolkata	14-Feb-10
93	200*	South Africa	ODI	Gwalior	24-Feb-10
94	203	Sri Lanka	Test	Colombo (SSC)	26-Jul-10
95	214	Australia	Test	Bangalore	9-Oct-10
96	111*	South Africa	Test	Centurion	16-Dec-10
97	146	South Africa	Test	Cape Town	2-Jan-11
98	120	England	ODI	Bangalore	27-Feb-11
99	111	South Africa	ODI	Nagpur	12-Mar-11
100	114	Bangladesh	ODI	Mirpur	16-Mar-12