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The best innings of Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar, no doubts is a jewel in the Indian batting crown, as he has played many memorable knocks, and to choose the best innings of Sachin Tendulkar is going to be arduous task. A task which had not been accomplished by any batsmen in the 2961 one-day internationals witnessed before the Gwalior match got scripted with elegance, as Sachin became the first player to score 200 in a one-day international at Gwalior, which becomes one of the best innings of Sachin Tendulkar.

In this innings, the South African bowlers were left clueless as Sachin simply plundered the bowling attack with the ball reaching the boundary ropes quite often. This best innings of Sachin Tendulkar was a pitch-perfect example for a youngster to watch and learn how to pace an innings. Right from the start, Sachin was at his usual best, punching and thumping the South African bowlers with merciless perfection. His last 47 deliveries produced 83 runs which went on to show the intensity of his run hunting spree, as the crowd enjoyed one of the best innings of Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin Tendulkar in this innings of 200 scored 25 fours and 3 sixes, where 59% of his total score came from boundaries and sixes.

His strike rate was 136.05, and this innings at Gwalior happened to be the second fastest out of the total of 46 tons in one-day internationals, which also gets ranked as one of the best innings of Sachin Tendulkar, and the best part of this innings was that it was notched up against a superior team and not against a weakling. To many of the detractors of Sachin Tendulkar who take the slightest chance to belittle this Little Master, this one-day international innings that brought the first 200 from an individual, which under circumstances also happens to be one of the best innings of Sachin Tendulkar, came up as a whip lashing produced to silence their tongue as well as to arrest their irrational thoughts about this batting genius.

Sachin now has an overall tally of 93 hundreds in international cricket, of which 10 tons have come in the last ten months, which also produced sparkling batting performances as that of the best innings of Sachin Tendulkar at Gwalior, which only goes to show the passion that this man carries for the game even after a grueling career spanning 20 years, as it has only fuelled more of it to produce stellar performances. But, his fans lie in wait as they still feel that they are yet to watch the best innings of Sachin Tendulkar.

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