
Sachin Tendulkar is easily the greatest cricketer to have played cricket, till today. Greater than Bradmans and Gawaskars cause he played in an era of video replays and other technologies that help bowlers find minus points in batsman's technique.
Sachin Tendulkar holds the record of most runs in both main form of cricket = tests and one day internationals and has scored most century in both version as well.
Fact : Sachin Tendulkar's first ever test match century came against England at Manchester.. it was his 9th test match and 16th innings.
Sachin Tendulkar's highest test score is 248 not out against Bangladesh at Dhaka and he also has exception of scoring a hundred against each test playing nation.
As you can see in following list, Sachin Tendulkar has scored 5 double century in test cricket, three of them outside India.
VCA ground in Nagpur, is Sachin Tendulkar's lucky charm where he has made 4 test century, 3 of them in his highest 10 test scores.
Also see :
Sachin Tendulkar's ODI century list | Sachin Tendulkar vs Ricky Ponting.
Career statistic summary : Tests = 182 ; Innings = 300 ; Runs = 15048 ; highest score = 248* ; Average = 56.16 ; Hundreds = 51, Fifties = 62.
| List of all century made by Sachin Tendulkar in Test Match cricket |
| Runs |
Balls |
4s |
6s |
Pos |
Versus |
Venue |
Date |
| 248* |
379 |
35 |
0 |
4 |
Bangladesh |
Dhaka |
10 December 2004 |
| 241* |
436 |
33 |
0 |
4 |
Australia |
Sydney |
2 January 2004 |
| 217 |
344 |
29 |
0 |
4 |
New Zealand |
Ahmedabad |
29 October 1999 |
| 214 |
363 |
22 |
2 |
4 |
Australia |
Bangalore |
11 October 2010 |
| 203 |
347 |
23 |
1 |
4 |
Sri Lanka |
Colombo (SSC) |
29 July 2010 |
| 201* |
281 |
27 |
0 |
4 |
Zimbabwe |
Nagpur |
25 November 2000 |
| 194* |
348 |
21 |
0 |
4 |
Pakistan |
Multan |
28 March 2004 |
| 193 |
330 |
19 |
3 |
4 |
England |
Leeds |
22 August 2002 |
| 179 |
322 |
24 |
1 |
4 |
West Indies |
Nagpur |
1 December 1994 |
| 177 |
360 |
26 |
0 |
4 |
England |
Nottingham |
4 July 1996 |
| 177 |
207 |
29 |
3 |
4 |
Australia |
Bangalore |
25 March 1998 |
| 176 |
316 |
23 |
0 |
4 |
Zimbabwe |
Nagpur |
21 February 2002 |
| 176 |
298 |
26 |
0 |
4 |
West Indies |
Kolkata |
30 October 2002 |
| 169 |
254 |
26 |
0 |
5 |
South Africa |
Cape Town |
2 January 1997 |
| 165 |
296 |
24 |
1 |
4 |
England |
Chennai |
11 February 1993 |
| 160 |
260 |
26 |
0 |
4 |
New Zealand |
Hamilton |
18 March 2009 |
| 155* |
191 |
14 |
4 |
4 |
Australia |
Chennai |
6 March 1998 |
| 155 |
184 |
23 |
1 |
4 |
South Africa |
Bloemfontein |
3 November 2001 |
| 154* |
243 |
14 |
1 |
4 |
Australia |
Sydney |
2 January 2008 |
| 153 |
205 |
13 |
3 |
4 |
Australia |
Adelaide |
24 January 2008 |
| 148* |
213 |
14 |
0 |
6 |
Australia |
Sydney |
2 January 1992 |
| 148 |
244 |
20 |
3 |
5 |
Sri Lanka |
Mumbai |
3 December 1997 |
| 146 |
314 |
17 |
2 |
4 |
South Africa |
Cape Town |
4 January 2011 |
| 143 |
182 |
13 |
1 |
4 |
Bangladesh |
Mirpur |
25 January 2010 |
| 143 |
247 |
20 |
0 |
4 |
Sri Lanka |
Colombo |
2 August 1997 |
| 142 |
244 |
22 |
0 |
4 |
Sri Lanka |
Lucknow |
18 January 1994 |
| 139 |
266 |
16 |
0 |
4 |
Sri Lanka |
Colombo |
9 August 1997 |
| 136 |
273 |
18 |
0 |
4 |
Pakistan |
Chennai |
28 January 1999 |
| 126* |
248 |
14 |
0 |
4 |
New Zealand |
Mohali |
10 October 1999 |
| 126 |
230 |
15 |
2 |
4 |
Australia |
Chennai |
18 March 2001 |
| 124* |
235 |
10 |
1 |
4 |
Sri Lanka |
Colombo |
24 February 1999 |
| 122* |
226 |
8 |
1 |
4 |
Bangladesh |
Dhaka |
25 May 2007 |
| 122 |
177 |
19 |
1 |
4 |
England |
Birmingham |
6 June 1996 |
| 122 |
233 |
19 |
0 |
4 |
Zimbabwe |
Delhi |
18 November 2000 |
| 119* |
189 |
17 |
0 |
6 |
England |
Manchester |
9 August 1990 |
| 117 |
260 |
14 |
0 |
4 |
West Indies |
Port of Spain |
19 April 2002 |
| 116 |
191 |
9 |
1 |
4 |
Australia |
Melbourne |
26 December 1999 |
| 114 |
161 |
16 |
0 |
4 |
Australia |
Perth |
1 February 1992 |
| 113 |
151 |
13 |
2 |
5 |
New Zealand |
Wellington |
26 December 1998 |
| 111 |
270 |
19 |
0 |
4 |
South Africa |
Johannesburg |
26 November 1992 |
| 111 |
241 |
13 |
1 |
5 |
South Africa |
Centurion |
16 December 2010 |
| 109 |
196 |
14 |
1 |
4 |
Sri Lanka |
Delhi |
10 December 2005 |
| 109 |
188 |
12 |
0 |
4 |
Australia |
Nagpur |
6 November 2008 |
| 106 |
206 |
12 |
0 |
4 |
South Africa |
Kolkata |
15 February 2010 |
| 105* |
166 |
11 |
2 |
4 |
Bangladesh |
Chittagong |
18 January 2010 |
| 104* |
161 |
11 |
1 |
4 |
Sri Lanka |
Colombo |
27 July 1993 |
| 103* |
196 |
9 |
0 |
4 |
England |
Chennai |
11 December 2008 |
| 103 |
197 |
12 |
1 |
4 |
England |
Ahmedabad |
11 December 2001 |
| 101 |
169 |
9 |
0 |
4 |
Bangladesh |
Chittagong |
18 May 2007 |
| 100* |
211 |
11 |
0 |
4 |
Sri Lanka |
Ahmedabad |
20 November 2009 |
| 100 |
179 |
13 |
0 |
4 |
South Africa |
Nagpur |
9 February 2010 |