Cricket: Tendulkar gets Wisden award

Presented the prestigious Wisden India Outstanding Achievement award for completing a century of 100 hundreds.


News Desk June 11, 2012

Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar was presented the prestigious Wisden India Outstanding Achievement award for completing a century of 100 International hundreds, according to The Times of India. Tendulkar, who made his Test debut at the age of 16, had achieved the milestone while playing against Bangladesh in the Asia Cup in March. While addressing the audience at the ceremony, Tendulkar said that his favourite century was in his match-winning fourth-innings effort against England at Chennai in December 2008.The batting maestro has scored 49 One-day International and 51 Test centuries in his glittering career. The award comes few days after Tendulkar was sworn in as an MP in the Indian Parliament.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 12th, 2012.

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