Things that will happen before Sachin's 100th 100

[honestbharani]

Disagree. Perhaps Tendulkar gets the most coverage, but any of his contemporaries would have been celebrated as well. Can you not imagine a Lara or Ponting getting similar headlines had they approached this milestone? I can.

No batsman has been anywhere near.. but the comparison here is with bowlers.. Warne and Murali and maybe McGrath?

 

[Furball]

No batsman has been anywhere near.. but the comparison here is with bowlers.. Warne and Murali and maybe McGrath?

There was no fanfare when Warne claimed his thousandth international wicket in Sydney - all the fanfare was over him being the first to break the 700 mark in Tests the week before in Melbourne.

 

[Cruxdude]

Warne's and Murali's 1000th international wickets were mentioned around but not clebrated, just as Sachin's 30000th run was. Their 700th and 800th wicket were much more celebrated.

Sachin's 100 international centuries is in a category of its own though and as others mentioned it is similar to the 100 first class centuries record.

 

[honestbharani]

Do FC hundreds take List A games into account?

 

[Furball]

Do FC hundreds take List A games into account?

No.

 

[honestbharani]

No.

I was trying to show why it was not like that..

 

[Cruxdude]

Do FC hundreds take List A games into account?

In the current era, ODI hundreds >>> FC hundreds.

 

[Jono]

I really don't see the problem. It is merely a celebration about how one player can be so good and so proficient in two separate formats of the game at international level. Getting 100 international centuries is a display of this awesomeness.

You can say you're tired of hearing of the coverage of it, but you could say the same when Sachin got his 200. But it was still a meaningful achievement, and so will getting 100 international centuries.

Sometimes hating for the sake of hating is just as tiresome to oversaturated coverage of Sachin.

 

[Jono]

It's an exciting record because no-one's done it before, no one's got close and it's hard to imagine anyone matching it for decades to come. We generally don't add international hundreds, but that's because no one else has given us such a reason to.

And yes, ODI tons matter too, because they matter to him and to his fans. To use a PEWSian, it's his job to score not just Test hundreds, but international hundreds. And he's done it massively more so than the next guy.

Besides anomalies like Ramprakash, nobody counts the most First Class hundreds any more, because the game has changed to the point where domestic cricket is less relevant. But the enduring record of Jack Hobbs' career is his 199 FC tons, not his Test figures. We make an exception in Hobbs' case, because that number shows that he was just that good. We can do the same for Tendulkar.

I don't especially care about the specific mark of the hundredth hundred (and I'll certainly be hiding from Cricinfo for a while when he gets it - everything he does is a record these days, we don't need a bunch of new articles every time) but long after he has retired it's his international hundreds that should be the figure he'll be most proud of, and the one people should rave about, if they must.

It's his thing. It's what makes him special.

Yeah nice post.

Love this piece, agree with pretty much every word.

Mukul Kesavan: Why Tendulkar's 100th hundred doesn't matter | Opinion | Cricinfo Magazine | ESPN Cricinfo

Comments section typically lolworthy, and would be even moreso if they weren't so deadly serious. And so numerous.

I actually read the article on the way to work today and immediately thought of you.

 

[Days of Grace]

"It is to speak and think like a child with 99 coins in his piggy bank, 51 made of silver and 48 of lead, who is dying to acquire one more coin of either kind because he will then have a hundred metal coins."





I have no problem with celebrating the 100 international hundreds. I just get tired of the constant obsession with the man to such an extent that he has to be mentioned in almost every cricinfo article and nearly every damn thread on this forum.

 

[Cevno]

Having said that, the writer is talking **** when he says ODI hundreds are easier than test hundreds. It depends on the situation. There are easy ODI hundreds, hard ODI hundreds, and vice versa in tests. Don't get his point at all. Yeah they require different skills, but one isn't easier than the other

Agree mostly.

Not every great Test player is a great ODI player and not every great ODI player is a great test player.

Disagree. Perhaps Tendulkar gets the most coverage, but any of his contemporaries would have been celebrated as well. Can you not imagine a Lara or Ponting getting similar headlines had they approached this milestone? I can.

Exactly.

Also how hard is for people to fathom, that he gets more attention? It is fashionable to complain when a record etc.. is being celebrated, but same works when he is not performing too or does something wrong and as Greg Chappel said recently the pressure that brings is enormous and possibly unparallell in the history of the game.

 

[honestbharani]

Agree mostly.

Not every great Test player is a great ODI player and not every great ODI player is a great test player.



Exactly.

Also how hard is for people to fathom, that he gets more attention? It is fashionable to complain when a record etc.. is being celebrated, but same works when he is not performing too or does something wrong and as Greg Chappel said recently the pressure that brings is enormous and possibly unparallell in the history of the game.

lol.. still don't see any reason why the 1000 international wickets is not as big a deal as this 100 100s..

 

[Daemon]

Annoyed he gets so much coverage


Writes article about him

 

[Shri]

Annoyed he gets so much coverage


Writes article about him

 

[weldone]

Do FC hundreds take List A games into account?

No, the reason why Tendulkar isn't chasing 100 test hundreds now

 

[G.I.Joe]

Annoyed he gets so much coverage


Writes article about him

Daemon wins the thread.

 

[ganeshran]

Annoyed he gets so much coverage


Writes article about him

 

[weldone]

Annoyed he gets so much coverage


Writes article about him

 

[The Sean]

Yeah nice post.

I actually read the article on the way to work today and immediately thought of you.

Ha ha, I could not be more flattered.

 

[uvelocity]

The most worrying thing of all is that the Little Master seems to have drunk his own KoolAid. For the last several innings he has looked weighed down by the pressure of this non-event.

reverse jinx was a chance until he reverse reversed it.