{"id":2369,"date":"2021-03-16T15:35:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T10:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=98849"},"modified":"2021-03-16T15:35:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T10:05:05","slug":"on-this-day-in-2012-sachin-tendulkar-scored-his-100th-international-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/on-this-day-in-2012-sachin-tendulkar-scored-his-100th-international-century\/","title":{"rendered":"On this day in 2012, Sachin Tendulkar scored his 100th international century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">On this day in 2012, Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar became the first and until now only- cricketer to score a hundred international centuries. While playing against Bangladesh in Dhaka, the \u201cMaster Blaster\u201d reached the magical three-figure mark for the hundredth time and the last time in his international career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Remembering this occasion, the Board of Control for Cricket in India tweeted, \u201cA century of centuries! #OnThisDay in 2012, the Master Blaster @sachin_rt became the only batsman in the history of cricket to notch up Hundred points 100th international hundred.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A century of centuries! \ud83d\ude4c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OnThisDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OnThisDay<\/a> in 2012, the Master Blaster <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sachin_rt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sachin_rt<\/a> became the only batsman in the history of cricket to notch up \ud83d\udcafth international hundred \ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc4f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamIndia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeamIndia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JfqRYa45r0\">pic.twitter.com\/JfqRYa45r0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BCCI (@BCCI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCCI\/status\/1371667095902035970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This was his 49th ODI century which added to the 51 tons he notched in Test cricket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Achieving this milestone in 138 deliveries, he finished with 114 off 147 balls at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium against Bangladesh in Asia Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Unfortunately, this century came in a losing cause as Bangladesh chased the target of 290 set by India with just four deliveries to spare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Leading the list of international centuries by quite a margin, behind Tendulkar\u2019s 100 centuries is former Australia captain Ricky Ponting with 71 and Virat Kohli following with 70 centuries so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Tendulkar ended his career with a record 200 Tests, 463 ODIs and a single T20 International. He has scored 15,921 runs in Test cricket and 18,426 in One Day cricket and remains the highest run-scorer in both formats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Currently, Tendulkar is leading the India Legends team in the ongoing Road Safety World Series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 2012, Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar became the first and until now only- cricketer to score a\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":25458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1585,1557,663,73],"class_list":["post-2369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-asia-cup","tag-india-legends","tag-ricky-ponting","tag-sachin-tendulkar"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}