Long before Sachin Tendulkar made his Test debut, Sunil Gavaskar was the original “Little Master”, who the cricketing world feared. He was India’s premier batsman before the likes of Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman, Rahul Dravid and others who walked in. In 1983, Gavaskar had become the holder of the world record after hitting his 30th hundred against West Indies at Madras. He had scored four more in his career to head the charts with 34, a record which stood for 22 years. However, Tendulkar surpassed it on this very day against Sri Lanka at Delhi in 2005.

Tendulkar reached the milestone, which included 13 fours and one six. On reaching his hundred Tendulkar celebrated it by raising his bat to the skies and then acknowledged the cheers of the crowd before turning to the dressing-room and raising his bat towards his team. Tendulkar fell for 109 as India went on to win the Test match.