Henry olonga vs sachin tendulkar biography

International cricket witnessed a 17-year-old Sachin Tendulkar score his first international hundred in a Test match against England at Old Trafford on this day in 1990.

Tendulkar was just 17 years and 112 days old at the time and became the third youngest batsman to score a Test century.

The entire cricketing fraternity witnessed a young batting protege come into his own on August 14, but few could have thought Tendulkar would go on to hit 99 centuries more in international cricket and claim a world record, which perhaps might never be broken.

After getting to his 1st hundred, there was no stopping Sachin Tendulkar.

The man from Mumbai came out with unprecedented hunger to get big scores and delivered more often than not.

Tendulkar took 8 Test matches to bring up his first 100-run plus score in international cricket, managing 119 not out off 189 balls in the final innings, helping Ind