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He scored his much awaited 100th international hundred
on 16 March 2012, at Mirpur against Bangladesh in
the Asia Cup. He became the first person in history to
achieve this feat. Incidentally, it was Tendulkar's first
ODI hundred against Bangladesh.
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He became the first cricketer to score 10,000 runs in one
day international cricket, while playing against Australia
at Indore. He completed this target in his 266th match.
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Apr-20, 2002 - he hit his 29th test century
equalling the record of Donald Bradman.
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Highest run scorer in ODIs, Highest runs scorer in Test
Cricket, Most number of hundreds in ODIs - 49,
Most number of hundreds in test cricket - 51, Most
number of man of the match in ODIs, Highest run scorer in
World Cup (2560) with an average of 56.95, Man of
the tournament in Cricket World Cup 2003, He is the only
player to have scored a century in all his debus in Raji Trophy,
Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy. These constitute a few of a avery
long list of records made by him.
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He is considered as the Virtual God of Cricket in India
His world record of scoring 100 centuries that might take a century
to break.
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