What will happen before Tendulkar gets his 100th 100? Poll

Perhaps Afridi will finally be 18 before SRT gets to his coveted choking milestone. Or BCCI will be a reformed non-corrupt outfit.....

The sky may fall into the sea, and Allan will turn communist.

He'll get it tomorrow in the third innings

Woody will get laid?

Batman will leave the call centre?

embee wrote:He'll get it tomorrow in the third innings

Nah ....The dwarf will finish his career one short.



Oh wait ... haven't the Bannies got a gig against the Bangles coming up?
Bugger ......

If the sky that we look upon
Should tumble and fall
And the mountains should crumble to the sea ...

Nice thread.

Vinoo Mankad was 8 1/2 weeks short of his 42nd birthday and the oldest Indian player so far when he played his last Test in 1959. That record may come under threat from SRT if he doesn't get his double ton soon.

SRT needs to be playing in a Test on or after 24 February 2015 in order to break Mankad's record.

Allan D wrote:SRT needs to be playing in a Test on or after 24 February 2015 in order to break Mankad's record.

Knowing his fetish for records, he might actually hang around that long.

Was going to make a suggestion, but Vikas actually did have the end of the world on his list.

Batman wrote:

Allan D wrote:SRT needs to be playing in a Test on or after 24 February 2015 in order to break Mankad's record.

Knowing his fetish for records, he might actually hang around that long.

That's just the Indian Test record. To beat Wilfred Rhodes' overall Test record he will have to be playing in a Test on or after 7 October 2025.

The BCCI will still be putting him out there on a zimmerframe if he still doesn't have it by then.

Jack Hobbs gave a press conference in 1925 to apologise for failing to reach W.G.Grace's record of 126 fc 100s but the chase of that particular record only lasted for about 3 weeks. When eventually he did reach Grace's total he equalled and passed it in the same match against a county he had never even scored a century against before.

In 1934 Hobbs postponed his retirement at the age of 51 in a bid to achieve the landmark of 200 fc 100s "to please my friends", as he put it. However, exhausted, he gave up the chase at 197 (although some revised records, including Cricinfo, put his career total at 199 which, had he known it at the time, might have just spurred him on a little longer) although this included a remarkable innings at Old Trafford in Duckworth's Benefit Match in which he took a century off that season's county champions who had not hitherto conceded a century.

When, many years later, John Arlott told him that many observers considered his last century to have been his finest one Hobbs replied, typically self-deprecatingly:

But John, I was too old to run, the only thing I could do was keep hitting the b*ggers through the covers for 4!

I have to say I was quite willing him but now I think it would be kind of right that he misses out on the 100 100s. He's obviously unquestionably brilliant but it's always been too much about the stats with him and maybe it's right he misses out on the biggey. It'll just be cr*p if he gets it against Bangladesh having a*sed things up against the big boys.