Thank You, Sachin.
100 International Centuries · 1989-2013
For twenty-four years, one man carried a country's expectations to the crease. This is every hundred he made.
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100 International Centuries · 1989-2013
For twenty-four years, one man carried a country's expectations to the crease. This is every hundred he made.
Not the score. The count. One hundred international centuries. A hundred separate days, across twenty-four years, when he walked off the field having made another hundred.
For a generation of us, he was the reason you ran home from school and switched the television on. When Sachin was batting, the whole country leaned in. He wasn't a player you watched. He was the match.
This page is simple: all hundred hundreds in one place, and a thank you.
Fifty-one in Tests, forty-nine in one-day cricket, against eleven nations, across twenty-four years. The first at Old Trafford in 1990, seventeen years old. The hundredth in 2012, with the whole country counting down to it.
He retired at his home ground in Mumbai in November 2013, and spoke for twenty minutes without a single note while the stadium chanted the only word it has ever needed. Sachiiin. Sachin.
Thank you. For all of it.
Nearly forty years into one-day cricket, after thousands of innings by hundreds of batsmen, nobody had ever made a double century. He was thirty-six when he became the first: two hundred not out, off a hundred and forty-seven balls, against South Africa at Gwalior.
24 February 2010 · 200* vs South Africa · the first double century in ODI history
Six World Cups. Five ended in someone else's hands. At the sixth, at home, at the Wankhede, it was finally his, and his teammates lifted him onto their shoulders and carried him around the ground in pure joy.
Wankhede, Mumbai · 2 April 2011 · his only World CupWhen Don Bradman first watched him bat, he called his wife in to look. The young man, he said, reminded him of himself.
Every international century, placed in the year he made it. Tests in the top row, one-day hundreds in the row beneath. The taller the bar, the bigger the score; blue means India won. Hover any bar, tap for the innings.
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All one hundred, in the order he made them. Blue marks a win, ★ the ones you remember. Tap any card for the innings.
Quick honest heads-up: we couldn't find a photo from every single one of these innings (some just aren't out there). So most cards show Sachin from the right years, in the right kit, even when it isn't the exact match. The ones you know by heart, like Sharjah, the 200, the World Cup and the farewell, those are the real thing.
Two hundred Tests. The two-hundredth at his home ground in Mumbai. The team lifted him onto their shoulders and walked him around the boundary while the city he was born in chanted the only word it has ever needed.
Wankhede · 16 November 2013 · 200th Test · 24 years at the creaseSachiiin... Sachin.
The sound of a stadium that never wanted him to stop
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He spoke for twenty minutes at the Wankhede, without a single note, while the ground chanted the only word it knew.
My life, between twenty-two yards for twenty-four years. It is hard to believe that this wonderful journey has come to an end.
Thank you, Sachin.
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar made his Test debut at sixteen in 1989 and retired in 2013 as the leading run-scorer in the history of the game. He holds the records for most international runs (34,357), most international centuries (100), most Test runs (15,921), most ODI runs (18,426), most Test appearances (200) and most World Cup runs (2,278). He scored the first double-century in one-day international history. The next batsman on the all-time list of international hundreds is fully twenty-nine short.
Fifty-one in Test cricket, forty-nine in one-day internationals, scored against eleven nations in thirteen countries between 1990 and 2012. The first was 119 not out against England at Old Trafford as a seventeen-year-old; the hundredth was 114 against Bangladesh at Mirpur, the moment a billion people had counted down to for three hundred and seventy days.
Debut: 15 November 1989 versus Pakistan at Karachi, aged sixteen. First Test hundred: 1990. First ODI hundred: 1994, in his seventy-ninth one-day match. Desert Storm: back-to-back hundreds against Australia at Sharjah in April 1998. World Cup winner: 2 April 2011 at the Wankhede. 200 not out: 24 February 2010 at Gwalior, the first double-century in ODI history. Final innings: his two-hundredth Test, versus West Indies at the Wankhede, November 2013. Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, 2014.
A data-led tribute to Sachin Tendulkar's hundred international centuries. Every one of the hundred is charted by the year he scored it, then laid out as a clickable wall you can open one innings at a time. Click any year to see that season's hundreds; click any card for the full scorecard. Plus the records he leaves behind and the official BCCI footage of his farewell speech at the Wankhede.
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