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Tendulkar joins the elite 100-Test club

by Daniel Puran Singh

When the Indian team takes the field at The Oval against England on Thursday, it will be India's wonder-boy Sachin Tendulkar's hundredth appearance in Tests for the national side. It also includes a staggering successive 84-match streak between his debut Test in Karachi late 1990 to the Harare Test against Zimbabwe in mid 2001. Holder of many-a-international record, this is just another remarkable feat in his already illustrious career.

Having made his Test debut way back in the 1989/90 season at just 16 years & 205 days, against a very potent Pakistani pace attack which included the likes of Imran Khan and his two well-known wards Wasim Akram and a raw Waqar Younis, he then, became the third youngest ever to appear in Test cricket and still is the youngest Indian to play the longer version of the game.

Come Thursday (5th September 2002), he will be the 26th cricketer in the annals of Tests and only the 4th Indian to achieve this rare distinction.

Records are not new to this man of short stature but tall deeds as he showed in his previous Test where he came up with yet another outstanding knock to register his 30th century - the leader still being fellow countryman Sunil Gavaskar, who has done it on a record 34 occasions.

Most often dismissed by: South Africans Hansie Cronje, Allan Donald and Australian pacer Glenn McGrath - 5 times each. 

Batsmen dismissed most:  Pakistani Yousuf Youhana and South African Herschelle Gibbs- 2 times each.

Test Career Highlights:

• November 15th 1989 - Sachin Tendulkar, in Karachi becomes the 186th player to represent India in Test cricket.
• February 3rd 1990 - Dismissed for his first duck in Tests, caught Ian Smith bowled Danny Morrison of New Zealand.
  
• August 11th 1990 - Aged 17 years & 112 days, registers his first Test hundred - 119 not out at Manchester .
• January 6th 1992 - Claims his first Test wicket, Australian fast-bowler Merv Hughes caught by Manoj Prabhakar.
• November 26th 1992 - Tendulkar, playing in his 19th Test reaches 1000 Test runs.
• February 12th 1993 - His first Test hundred on home soil, 165 against England at Chennai, over-all fifth ton in Tests.
• October 10th 1996 - Is the 26th cricketer to captain India in Test cricket, India register a 10-wicket win v Australia at Delhi.
• February 16th 1999 - Becomes just the 6th Indian to reach the 5000-run mark in Tests.
• October 10th 1999 - Fiftieth catch for Tendulkar - New Zealander Craig Spearman off Harbhajan Singh
• October 30th 1999 - First double-hundred in his 71st Test, 217 against the Kiwis. Also featured in a 281-run stand with Sourav Ganguly, an all-time Indian best for the fourth-wicket to-date.
• March 20th 2001 - Makes his 25th Test hundred, only second Indian to do so after Sunil Gavaskar.
• December 21st 2001 - Is out stumped for the first time in 89 Tests, by England wicket-keeper James Foster off left-arm spinner Ashley Giles.
• August 23rd 2002 - Goes past Aussie legend Don Bradman's tally of 29 Test tons, only second batsman to make 30 or more.