Sachin shows you can take nothing for granted

Watching Sachin Tendulkar try his best to score his 100th hundred has shown just how difficult it is to score a century, and it's a marvel that he's managed to do that 99 times against the world's best bowlers, writes Tom Alter in Firstpost.

When he got out on 94 in Mumbai, it was all my fault and the fault of about nine crore others just like me. You see, in my hotel room in Indore, I had done everything – ‘do not disturb’ on the door, volume on the tv off, tea in hand, settled and comfortable and I was not going to move. And he started off with such precise power, he raced to 94 – raced, paced, chased; not, not chased.