Sachin Tendulkar achieved major feats in Madhya Pradesh

Before scripting history by scoring double ton against South Africa in ODI at Captain Roop Singh Stadium in Gwalior last evening, the cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar had achieved two major feats in Madhya Pradesh.

After hitting 139 of 125 balls against Australia at Nehru Stadium, here on March 31, 2001, Sachin created the world record of scoring 10,000 runs in the ODIs then. Before this, no batsman had achieved this milestone.

The batting maestro played a brillant knock of 100 against Australia in Captain Roop Singh Stadium in Gwalior on October 26, 2003, which was his 35th century in the ODIs.

In both these matches, India beat Australia.

Madhya Pradesh has always proved lucky for Sachin, State Cricket Association secretary Sanjay Jagdale told PTI.

Going down the memory lane, he said Sachin had attended under-15 national cricket camp in Indore where he first met the former Indian team skipper Saurabh Ganguly.

It was in this camp that his special cricket pads gifted to him by the cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar, were stolen. After this incident he turned sad, Jagdale recalled.