Sachin : Select YOUR best of 51

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No. 1:

Sachin Tendulkar saved the Old Trafford Test for India in 1990 with an unbeaten 119 in the final innings.

At 17 years ,112 days, he was a month older than Mushtaq Mohammad was when he had become Test cricket's youngest centurion.

Wisden noted: "He looked the embodiment of India's famous opener, Gavaskar, and indeed was wearing a pair of his pads."

                   

No. 11:
Tendulkar's 169 at Newlands in 1997 was part of a thrilling stand with Mohammad Azharuddin.

They added 222 in 40 overs. Tendulkar carried on after his partner fell, and helped India avoid the

follow-on. He was eventually the last man out, and it needed one of the great out-field catches

of all time from Adam Bacher to end it.
                     

No. 29:

Tendulkar's 117 - his first Test century in the West Indies - helped India win a tense Test

in Trinidad by 37 runs in 2001.

"Following a difficult start - on 6, he survived a confident claim for a catch at the wicket off Sanford

- Tendulkar settled to build his 29th Test hundred, which put him level with Don Bradman,

though he had taken 93 Tests to Bradman's 52,"

Wisden reported. "It was a resolute rather than commanding innings."

                               

No. 31:

India were 11 for 2, needing to erase a 139-run deficit against West Indies :

when Tendulkar rallied with 176 to save the game in Kolkata, 2002.

"It has been said innumerable times in the past, most loudly by his critics, that Tendulkar fails to make runs when India need it the most,"

"Today ... not being altogether destructive, or indeed too defensive,

Tendulkar remained unbeaten on 114 as the players walked off the field."

               

No. 35:

The 109 against Sri Lanka at the Kotla in 2005 gave Tendulkar the world record.

                                     

No. 51: 

In the final Test of the 2010-11 tour of South Africa, Tendulkar's first-innings hundred

drew level with South Africa's competitive total.

It was Tendulkar's last Test in South Africa :

and his last Test century until his retirement on October 10, 2013.

                                 

Sachin Tendulkar's tons at Sydney and Perth in 1992 were special, recalls Shane Warne

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