Today in 2012: Tendulkar's record

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On this day (March 16) in 2012, Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar scored a hundred centuries in international matches. He scored a century against Bangladesh at the Mirpur Stadium in Dhaka. Tendulkar is the only player to score a century in international cricket.

Born in 1973 in Maharashtra, India, Tendulkar started playing cricket for the Indian national team in 1989 at the age of 16. He scored 51 hundreds in ODIs and 49 in Tests. He has scored 34 thousand 357 runs in 664 international matches. Which is 6000 runs more than Sri Lankan cricketer Kumar Sangakkara, who is in second place.

Cricket's all-time great batsman Tendulkar has scored 18 thousand 426 runs in ODI matches and 15 thousand 921 runs in Test matches. Tendulkar retired from the game in November 2013. He scored his first double century in ODI cricket on February 24, 2010. In the match against South Africa, Tendulkar played 147 balls and scored 200 not out.

Since then, 10 players, including two women, have scored double centuries in ODIs. Rohit Sharma (three times), Martin Guptill, Amelia Kerr, Belinda Clarke, Virender Sehwag, Chris Gayle, Fakhar Zaman, Ishan Kisan, Shubman Gill have scored double centuries.