What if Sachin finishes on 99?
A post on the Old Batsman's blog says Tendulkar's greatness will not be diminished if he finishes on 99 international centuries
Dustin Silgardo
25-Feb-2013
A post on the Old Batsman's blog says Tendulkar's greatness will not be diminished if he finishes on 99 international centuries. The blog tells the story of how a scientist turned statistician tried to find the extra four runs that would take Don Bradman's average up to 100.00, but how it is probably better that Bradman finished on 99.94.
Yet there is an undeniable romance to his finishing on 99, if that's what he does. It's the number he'll be remembered by, purely because it's the number that best represents the epic grandeur of his enduring brilliance. If the number shows both his greatness and his humanity, if it tells his story the way 99.94 tells Bradman's, then it will be perfect whether it's 100 or not.
Dustin Silgardo is a former sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo