5 Records of Sachin Tendulkar that will remain unbreakable forever

2. 51 Test centuries

There is a reason why Test cricket is termed as cricket’s traditional format. It tests a player’s character to the hilt and the ones who come out of it with flying colours are considered legends. And this man has scored 51 centuries in the format which is just astonishing. His favourite opposition as Australia against whom the master racked up 11 tons in 39 matches scoring 3630 runs at an average of 55.

29 of his 51 tons came outside India while 17 of them came in the SENA countries (South Africa, England, New Zealand, Australia) which has been the parameter to judge a batsman from subcontinent these days. These stats simply prove that Sachin Tendulkar wasn’t just a home track bully and pummelled the bowlers from all countries in all sorts of conditions.

Not that he never went out of from or faced a slump in his career. But every time he was pushed to the corner, Sachin Tendulkar came back strongly. Very few must have forgotten his unbeaten 241-run knock in Sydney in the New Year Test in 2004 when he didn’t play a single cover drive throughout the innings as he had got out a few times playing the same shot earlier in the series. Such was his temperament and no wonder he holds the record of the most tons in Tests.