Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Hundred First Century

Hundred First Century
Surprised to read the title? No record of cricket shows that any player had ever reached the mark of hitting the hundredth ton knock and if so how is the possible to score hundred first century? Yes dear this is not an imagination but a fact, the record is missed by less than hundred runs. The master blasters, Bating genius, Indian run machine, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is one who missed this fate. It was the sixth time in this year and 23 rd time in the prolonged illustrated international carrier extended over the span of 18 years, this is last teen age year of his cricketing carrier [Debut 15th November 1989, against Pakistan] at international level.
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, the name it self is backed up with numerous record, A dream run of success, records, awards and achievements. Getting out in nineties is not new one on the cricket fields, it has been always a pressure to score a ton, but what you will call it if this happen with a player with the record most centuries and that too if out of 23 times, Sachin is dismissed for six times in nineties against the arch rival Pakistan. This year Sachin is under going this phase just look at the centuries missed by him this year.Tendulkar’s dismissals in the 90's this year:
1] 99 (143 balls) South Africa Belfast 26-Jun-2007 run-out
2] 93 (106 balls) South Africa Belfast 29-Jun-2007 bowled
3] 99 (112 balls) England Bristol 24-Aug-2007 caught (w/k)
4] 94 (81 balls) England The Oval 05-Sep-2007 caught
5] 99 (91 balls) Pakistan Mohali 08-Nov-2007 caught (w/k)
6] 97 (102 balls) Pakistan Gwalior 15-Nov-2007 bowled
All this was started with a run-out and still the century is running away from the Sachin, Surely a series of suggestions is on even the Arjun- Son of Sachin, suggested why to score singles instead of going for six on reaching to 94. Just Look at the Test centuries scored by Sachin.
No. Runs Place Year Opp. Country
1 119* Old Trafford 1990 England
2 148* Sydney Cricket Ground 1991-92 Australia
3 114 WACA Ground, Perth 1991-92 Australia
4 111 New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg 1992-93 South Africa
5 165 MA Chidambaram Stadium,Madras 1992-93 England
6 104 Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo 1993-94 Sri Lanka
7 142 K.D.Singh 'Babu' Stadium, Lucknow 1993-94 Sri Lanka
8 179 Vidarbha C.A. Ground, Nagpur 1994-95 West Indies
9 122 Edgbaston, Birmingham 1996 England
10 177 Trent Bridge, Nottingham 1996 England
11 169 Newlands, Cape Town 1996-97 South Africa
12 143 R.Premadasa Stadium,Colombo 1997-98 Sri Lanka
13 139 Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo 1997-98 Sri Lanka
14 148 Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai 1997-98 Sri Lanka
15 155* MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai 1997-98 Australia
16 177 M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore 1997-98 Australia
17 113 Basin Reserve, Wellington 1998 New Zealand
18 136 MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai 1999 Pakistan
19 124* Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo 1999 Sri Lanka
20 126* Punjab C.A. Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh 1999 New Zealand
21 217 Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad 1999 New Zealand
22 116 Melbourne Cricket Ground 1999 Australia
23 122 Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi 2000 Zimbabwe
24 201* Vidarbha C.A. Ground, Nagpur 2000 Zimbabwe
25 126 MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai 2001 Australia
26 155 Goodyear Park, Bloemfontein 2001 South Africa
27 103 Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad 2001 England
28 176 Vidarbha C.A. Ground, Nagpur 2002 Zimbabwe
29 117 Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad 2002 West Indies
30 193 Headingley, Leeds 2002 England
31 176 Eden Gardens, Kolkata 2002-03 West Indies
32 241* Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney 2003-04 Australia
33 196* Multan 2003-04 Pakistan
34 248* Dhaka 2004-05 Bangladesh
35 100* Kotla Feroz Shah, New Delhi 2005 Sri Lanka
36 101 Chitgaon Bangala Desh
37 122 shere Bangala Stadium 2007 Bangaladesh
Now look at the following addition and agree with me, dreams are not just for dreaming but for the realization.
Test Ceturies 37
ODI Centuries + 41
Dismissals in Nineties+ 23
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Probable Centuries = 101
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Surely if sachin had survived at every occasion of nervous nineties by this time he might have touched the magic three figure century for his century knocks at the international level.

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