
Sachin Tendulkar finished as the top run scorer in ODIs with 18426 runs.© AFP
Sachin Tendulkar finished as the top run scorer in ODIs with 18426 runs.© AFP
On this day in 1994, legendary India batsman Sachin Tendulkar scored his maiden One-day International century after playing 78 games over a span of five years. It was on this day 26 years ago that Tendulkar amassed the first of his 49 ODI centuries in a match against Australia in Colombo, his 79th ODI match. The then-19-year-old right-handed batsman scored 110 runs off 130 balls in an innings when no other Indian batsman could cross the 50-run mark. His innings played a key role in…