Call him the Little Master, the God of Cricket or an icon in cricket-crazed India, one thing is certain: Sachin Tendulkar sits on the brink of making history… again. He is close to becoming the first cricketer to knock his 100th international 100.

That’s scoring one hundred runs, one hundred times. And that's something special.

It was hoped that Tendulkar would rewrite the record books in the first test at the so-called "Mecca of cricket", Lord's. It would have been almost too perfect. It would have been his 100^th international century, on the 100^th match between the two nations and on the 2000^th test match ever. In short, it would have been numerical poetry.  FULL POST