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Bangladesh vs India 2012

Sachin Tendulkar’s 100th 100: The day India heaved a collective sigh of relief

March 16, 2012, was a landmark day for India. It was a day when the then Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, declared the Union Budget for the financial year 2012-13. The budget was one that flattered to deceive the public. While Pranab babu saved the Indian taxpayer Rs 4,500 crore in direct taxes, he took away almost 10 times that amount in indirect taxes. Meanwhile, as Mukherjee dabbled in figures mounting to billions and billions in the parliament in Delhi, about a thousand miles east of the venue, another Indian was riddling in humongous numbers.

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Sachin Tendulkar gets his 100th international hundred to make the seemingly impossible possible

March 16, 2012. After a long wait of 370 days, SachinTendulkar finally scored his hundredth international century. Arunabha Sengupta looks back at the history-making moment that landmark was reached, and the days that preceded and followed it.

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