By the time he was 21, Tendulkar already had hit seven Test hundreds but it took him 78 matches score his first one-day hundred. The wait finally ended on the September 9, 1994, when a 21-year-old Tendulkar scored 110 off 130 balls against Australia at the iconic Premadasa stadium in the third match of the Singer World Series, also featuring Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Tendulkar got to his maiden ODI ton with a square-cut off Shane Warne. Tendulkar took five years and 75 innings to hit his first ODI ton but from there on he was unstoppable. But after that knock he made 48 more hundreds in 385 ODIs and scored 16,300 runs at a staggering average of 47.11 with 79 half-centuries.

Source: India Today September 09, 2016 07:52 UTC