Can Tendulkar get 100 international hundreds?

[Jono]

We're going to look back at this thread and laugh at the naievity when Tendulkar completes 30 years in International cricket.

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[G.I.Joe]

Not nearly as many games, though.
EDIT - The Sobers thing.

 

[weldone]

We're going to look back at this thread and laugh at the naievity when Tendulkar completes 30 years in International cricket.

And 170 international centuries with 23000 test runs @ 65 (not to mention the 2 ODI WC titles and 3 triple centuries in tests)?

 

[G.I.Joe]

And 170 international centuries with 20000 test runs @ 65 (not to mention the 2 ODI WC titles and 3 triple centuries)?

I don't think he'll play ODIs beyond the next WC, though. He's already cutting back on it (not a single ODI since the 200* in Feb! (?)). I honestly think he'll continue playing Test cricket into his 40's. He's hungry and obviously fit enough. He hasn't lost his eye ala Viv, and his technique actually seems to be getting more and more watertight by the game.

 

[Furball]

Would 100 career First Class hundreds perhaps be on his "to do" list, given that no other Indian batsman has ever achieved such a feat?

He's on 76 just now...

 

[honestbharani]

fixed

Indeed.. And fixing of all kinds is the mother of all evil in cricket, ITBT..

 

[irfan]

We have seriously run out of superlatives to describe Sachin's 20+ year long career. WAG

The ideal situation would be for him to bring his 100th international hundred against Australia in the 2011WC final on home soil in a winning cause. However, at the phenomenal rate he has compiled runs in the past year I am worried he will get there far quicker and in some nondescript match/game situation that wouldn't do the achievement justice.

 

[Black_Warrior]

Would 100 career First Class hundreds perhaps be on his "to do" list, given that no other Indian batsman has ever achieved such a feat?

He's on 76 just now...

Thats a bit too much I think..24 hundreds is not a joke..

2 hundreds to get 50 test centuies and 4 more to get ODIs is easily gettable..but 24 centuries..thats a whole career there..

Ideally I would like him to retire from ODIs after the World Cup..Firstly, he has achieved everything in ODIs...no one is close..and the number of ODIs reducing in the near future..I dont see anyone getting even 10000 runs.

But he needs to carry on in Test cricket...he needs to get that 300.. Or else 20 years from now, you will find 15 year old imbeciles on Cricket Web say Tendulkar never got a 300 but Sehwag got 2 against Akhtar and Steyn..so Tendulkar is a FTB...

 

[Slifer]

Dont think SRT needs 300 to prove ne thing tbh He's already convinced me that he's arguably the best of his generation and a near sure in for ne all time XI

 

[vcs]

Tendulkar won't be getting any 300's, you don't get 300's with a 55-ish strike rate, unless of course it's a completely flat wicket and the captain has given you license to bat as long as you want knowing he has no chance of getting a result.

 

[blahblahblah]

Dont think SRT needs 300 to prove ne thing tbh He's already convinced me that he's arguably the best of his generation and a near sure in for ne all time XI

well said

 

[blahblahblah]

he has got 1000+ runs for a record 6 time in a calendar year

Only 6 times in a career spanning 22 years did he get to play more than 10 tests a year.

Sachin scored >1000 in 5 of those 6 rare years. The only time he didn't, he scored 915

 

[weldone]

you don't get 300's with a 55-ish strike rate

...players with 55ish career strike rate don't have 55ish strike rates when they score triple centuries...

...just like players with 85 career strike rate in ODIs don't have the same strike rate when they score ODI double centuries...

 

[vcs]

...players with 55ish career strike rate don't have 55ish strike rates when they score triple centuries...

...just like players with 85 career strike rate in ODIs don't have the same strike rate when they score ODI double centuries...

True, but he's been fairly consistent with it for quite a few years now.

 

[Jono]

Lol, Sachin doesn't need a 300 or a 400 to prove anything.

Gayle has a 300. It's not exactly the benchmark of greatness.

 

[benchmark00]

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Just another occasion where the words 'benchmark' and 'greatness' have been used in the same sentence.

No biggie.

 

[Sanz]

Just another occasion where the words 'benchmark' and 'greatness' have been used in the same sentence.

No biggie.

There is a reason why you have 00 stuck to your name.

 

[Days of Grace]

Tendulkar won't be getting any 300's, you don't get 300's with a 55-ish strike rate, unless of course it's a completely flat wicket and the captain has given you license to bat as long as you want knowing he has no chance of getting a result.

Like in this current test match?

Seriously, if India want to win this test match, they need to get a sizable lead, and if by some miracle, the tail manages to stay with Tendulkar, then he actually has a decent chance of getting 300 today.

 

[blahblahblah]

Like in this current test match?

Seriously, if India want to win this test match, they need to get a sizable lead, and if by some miracle, the tail manages to stay with Tendulkar, then he actually has a decent chance of getting 300 today.

and more over , if ata ll he gets decent support fromt he other end, he might not be in the same mood of defence once the lead is around 150+, he might as well go for some big shots

 

[Black_Warrior]

Dont think SRT needs 300 to prove ne thing tbh He's already convinced me that he's arguably the best of his generation and a near sure in for ne all time XI

Lol, Sachin doesn't need a 300 or a 400 to prove anything.

Gayle has a 300. It's not exactly the benchmark of greatness.

Ofcourse...I completely agree..He does not have to prove anything..I was not talking about myself or cricket fans and analysts today..
Just like you have imbeciles saying Bradman is overrated because he never faced Murali or Warne or Ishant Sharma...you will have imbeciles in 20 years time who will say Tendulkar is a FTB because he does not have a triple century..
Such is the nature of imbeciles.. To shut them up, I hope he gets that triple century.