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Sachin Tendulkar scored 100 international centuries
He reached the hundredth in a one-day match against Bangladesh in 2012 Tendulkar made 51 centuries in Test cricket and 49 in one-day internationals across a career that ran from 1989 to 2013. The hundredth came at Mirpur in March 2012. He finished with more than 34,000 runs for India in international cricket. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Sachin Tendulkar scored 100 international centuries: the short answers
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- He reached the hundredth in a one-day match against Bangladesh in 2012. The figure is taken from International Cricket Council, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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