Sachin Tendulkar during the course of his illustrious international career lasting 22 long years has just suffered seven ignominious instances of going through ton-less tenures lasting eight or more months. His last and the most recent three-figure innings came during India's triumphant march in 2011 World Cup: versus South Africa at Nagpur on March 12.
Since then he missed the entire tour of West Indies and the tour of England to India due to injury while in-between these two rubbers he had a very poor outing in England. In the first two Tests against West Indies at home now, he managed a single fifty. Thus much awaited hundred has eluded him for eight months. The full details arranged in the chronological order:
| From | To | Period sans ton | | 119* v Eng at Manchester, Aug 14, 1990 (1) | 148* v Aust at Sydney, Jan 5, 1992 (2) | 16 months, 21 days | | 114 v Aust at Perth, Feb 3, 1992 (3) | 111 v SA at Johannesburg, Nov 28, 1992 (4) | 9 months, 24 days | | 112* v SL at Sharjah, Apr 9, 1995 (12) | 127* v Ken at Cuttack, Feb 18, 1996 (13) | 10 months, 8 days | | 152 v Nam at Pietermaritzburg, Feb 23, 2003 (65) | 100 v Aust at Gwalior, Oct 26, 2003 (66) | 8 months, 2 days | | 194* v Pak at Multan, Mar 29, 2004 (70) | 248* v Bang at Dhaka, Dec 11, 2004 (71) | 8 months, 11 days | | 117* v Aust at Sydney, Mar 2, 2008 (81) | 109 v Aust at Nagpur, Nov 6, 2008 (82) | 8 months, 3 days | | 111 v SA at Nagpur, Mar 12, 2011 (99) | Till now (Nov 18, 2011) | 8 months, 6 days | |
Note: Figures in the bracket indicates his century number in international cricket.
Other centurions since Tendulkar's last ton
The country-wise break-up of centurions in international cricket (Tests, ODIs & T20Is) since Sachin Tendulkar's last ton on March 12, 2011:
| Country | 100s | Players | Mts | Most 100s | | Sri Lanka | 16 | 7 | 29 | Kumar Sangakkara (4) | | England | 14 | 6 | 30 | Ian Bell & Alastair Cook (4 each) | | Australia | 10 | 6 | 24 | Michael Clarke & Michael Hussey (3 each) | | India | 10 | 5 | 31 | Rahul Dravid (5) | | Pakistan | 9 | 6 | 25 | Mohammad Hafeez (3) | | West Indies | 7 | 4 | 30 | Darren Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul & Kirk Edwards (2 each) | | Zimbabwe | 7 | 3 | 20 | Brendan Taylor (5) | | New Zealand | 6 | 5 | 10 | Martin Guptill (2) | | Ireland | 3 | 1 | 8 | Paul Stirling (3) | | South Africa | 2 | 2 | 10 | Hashim Amla & Graeme Smith (1 each) | | Bangladesh | 1 | 1 | 17 | Mushfiqur Rahim (1) | | Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 6 | Ryan ten Doeschate (1) | | Total | 86 | 47 | 128 | Rahul Dravid (Ind) & Brendan Taylor (Zimb) – 5 each | |
Note: No player from Canada (6 matches), Kenya (4), Scotland (4) & Afganistan (2) have managed to score a hundred.
