Sachin’s most agonising hundred
Sachin Tendulkar scored 99 hundred fairly fluently throughout his international career, but when he began his bid to get his 100th hundred he found the going very tough. He scored his 99th hundred against South Africa in Nagpur during the 2011 World Cup and thereafter every innings he went out to bat, everybody was talking about Sachin’s 100th hundred.
He got very close a couple of times but couldn’t get there, and the days went by. After exactly a year, when the Little Master was under tremendous pressure for his 100th hundred, he had only one way to get there, that is by playing a slow and very watchful inning against Bangladesh in the Asia Cup 2012.
He scored his 100th hundred in 138 balls at a strike rate of 72.46. Tendulkar while in pursuit of his elusive hundred, forgot about the team’s cause and because of his slow innings, India managed a below-par total of 289/5 at the end of the 50 overs and eventually, they lost the match by 5 wickets.