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Goofy
11-15-2013, 05:33 PM
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Sachin Tendulkar failed to make a century on what could be his final innings for India in his 200th and final Test match in Mumbai.

Tendulkar scored 74 on the second day of the second Test against West Indies at a sold-out Wankhede Stadium.

With India in a strong position at 221-3 when Tendulkar departed the home side had already established a lead of 39 and a big first innings advantage could see them not needing to bat again.

Tendulkar had begun the day on 38 and and quickly added nine runs, taking a single from the first over of the day off Tino Best before hitting successive fours off Shane Shillingford.

Tendulkar survived a scare off the fifth ball of Best's second over when he failed to get anything on a rising delivery and umpire Richard Kettleborough gave him not out despite committed appeals from the West Indies players.

A straight driven four off Best's next over gave Tendulkar his 68th Test fifty as he moved on to 52 not out as India replied to West Indies first innings total of 182.

The 40-year-old, whose impending retirement has sparked an outpouring of emotion in his homeland, is bidding for one last hurrah before bringing the curtain down on his 24-year international career.

An enthusiastic welcome from the 32,000-strong crowd set the scene for the Little Master on Friday and he did not disappoint. Having reached his half-century Tendulkar set his sights on the next landmark and a 101st career century at international level.

But there was to be no century as he perished for 74 when he was caught by Darren Sammy attempting to cut Narsingh Deonarine.

Tendulkar's tally of 100 centuries is just one of many records he has amassed since making his debut for the national side on 15 November 1989.

Tendulkar holds dozens of batting records, including most runs and centuries in both Tests and one-day internationals.

He has amassed nearly 16,000 runs in his Tests career - a total that comprises just part of his 34,000-plus runs across all forms of the game at international level.

Goofy
11-15-2013, 05:35 PM
This guy is pretty much a God in India, the finest batsman of his generation! Would have been nice if he'd signed off with a century but alas it was not to be.

Noilly Pratt
11-15-2013, 06:38 PM
Got your back, Goofy. I am bilingual, having lived over the pond for a bit.

For the N. Americans who don't quite know what a century is...


Wikipedia:
In the sport (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport) of cricket (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket), a century is a score of 100 or more runs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_%28cricket%29) in a single innings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innings) by a batsman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batsman). The term is also included in "century partnership" which occurs when two batsmen add 100 runs to the team total when they are batting together. A century is regarded as a landmark score for batsmen and a player's number of centuries is generally recorded in his career statistics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_statistics). Scoring a century is loosely equated in terms of merit to a bowler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_%28cricket%29) taking five wickets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicket) in an innings, and is colloquially referred to as a ton or hundred. Scores of more than 200 runs are still statistically counted as a century, although these scores are referred as double (200–299 runs), triple (300–399 runs), and quadruple centuries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_first-class_cricket_quadruple_centuries) (400–499 runs), and so on.