BBC Sport - Sachin Tendulkar scores his 100th international century for India

Sachin Tendulkar scores his 100th international century for India

India's Sachin Tendulkar has become the first player to score 100 international centuries by compiling a ton in a one-day game against Bangladesh in Dhaka.

The 38-year-old completed his landmark century, his 49th in one-day cricket, with a single clipped to square leg.

After being dismissed for 114, he said: "I was not thinking about the milestone. It hasn't sunk in."

Tendulkar had twice been out in the 90s after scoring his 99th century against South Africa in March 2011.

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The right-hander, who holds the record for scoring the most Test and one-day runs, has also scored 51 Test tons.

Tendulkar, whose own celebration was a little muted, was immediately congratulated by the Bangladesh players after he jogged through for the single to bring up his century, scored off Shakib Al Hasan.

The hundred was Tendulkar's first against Bangladesh in one-day cricket and he added another 14 runs before edging a Mashrafe Mortaza delivery to wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim.

He added: "A year ago when I got my 99th hundred no-one spoke about it during the World Cup, then I guess it was the media who began talking about it.

"Wherever I went, to a restaurant, the house keeping, the room service, whoever I met just spoke about the 100th hundred.

LEADING CENTURY MAKERS

• Sachin Tendulkar, India - 100 (51 Test, 49 ODI)
• Ricky Ponting, Australia - 71 (41, 30)
• Jacques Kallis, South Africa - 59 (42, 17)
• Brian Lara, West Indies - 53 (34, 19)
• Rahul Dravid, India - 48 (36, 12)

"It became a little difficult mentally, because I am not playing only for my 100th hundred.

"The 99 hundreds that I scored, nobody spoke about them. Everyone had their opinion but eventually I have got to do what is important for the team.

"I have lost about 50 kilos. Enjoy the game and chase your dreams. I had to wait for 22 years for one dream, the World Cup."

England Test captain Andrew Strauss was among a host of players to offer their congratulations to Tendulkar.

He told BBC Sport: "Sachin is a player by which all others are measured over the last 10-15 years, and for him to go out and get a hundred hundreds is an amazing achievement without precedent - it's unlikely to be achieved again."

International Cricket Council chief executive Haroon Lorgat has also applauded the feat.

"On behalf of every cricket fan around the globe I congratulate Sachin on becoming the first person to score 100 centuries for his country," he said.

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Tendulkar feat 'amazing' - Strauss

"This is indeed a magnificent feat and not likely to be easily emulated. The number 100 is special for a batsman and to record 100 centuries for your country is a massive statement.

"Like millions of others I have followed his career ever since he first played for India as a gifted 16-year-old and now, more than two decades later, his passion and personal records, which include more than 33,000 runs at international level, is a modern day wonder.

"Sachin is a true role model who will undoubtedly hold a special place in cricket's history."

Narayanaswami Srinivasan, the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India said: "Ever since he made his international debut in November 1989, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar has strode cricketing arenas the world over, like a colossus.

"He has been an inspiration to billions, and an ornament to the sport. March 16, 2012 will never be forgotten by cricket-lovers."

India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh issued a statement, adding: "He has made India proud.

Tendulkar in numbers

• Matches - 650
• Runs - 33,844
• Highest Test score - 248*
• Highest ODI score - 200
• Batting average - 49.19
• Centuries - 100
• Wickets - 200
• Bowling average - 46.33

"Tendulkar's long career has been a triumph of class, character and courage. I wish him many more innings and feats to continue inspiring the youth."

He began his Test career as a 16-year-old in 1989 against Pakistan and scored 15 in a blood-soaked shirt after being hit in the face by a Waqar Younis delivery.

The following year he scored his first Test century, against England at Old Trafford and in 1992 became Yorkshire's first overseas signing.

Tendulkar surpassed fellow India legend Sunil Gavaskar's record of 34 Test centuries in 2005, became the highest Test-run scorer in 2008 and scored the first double century in a one-day international in 2010.

Tendulkar has scored 15,470 Test runs and 18,260 in the one-day game.

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BBC Radio 4 to make The News Quiz USA | Radio Times

BBC Radio 4 to make The News Quiz USA

A pilot edition - chaired by The Daily Show's Lewis Black - will air later this month

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BBC Radio 4 is to broadcast an American version of topical comedy The News Quiz on 22 March.

The pilot – to be recorded in New York - will be presented by Daily Show regular Lewis Black and will feature a panel including writer Andy Borowitz plus comedians Kathleen Madigan and Ted Alexandro.

The one-off edition, which will concentrate on the Republican primaries, could be developed into a full series if it proves to be successful.

Caroline Raphael, Radio 4’s commissioning editor comedy and entertainment, told The Guardian: “This is the first time a US version has been made of one of our flagship Radio 4 comedy programmes. We hope it will give Radio 4 listeners a slightly different take on the US elections and complement Radio 4’s other stateside election coverage.”

The domestic version of The News Quiz began in 1977 with Barry Norman as chair. It is currently presented by Sandi Toksvig and features regular appearances from the likes of Jeremy Hardy, Sue Perkins, Francis Wheen and Andy Hamilton.

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BBC News - Spider silk spun into violin strings

5 March 2012 Last updated at 00:59

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Spider silk spun into violin strings

By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News

More than 300 spiders were used to generate the thousands of strands of silk making up each string

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A Japanese researcher has used thousands of strands of spider silk to spin a set of violin strings.

The strings are said to have a "soft and profound timbre" relative to traditional gut or steel strings.

That may arise from the way the strings are twisted, resulting in a "packing structure" that leaves practically no space between any of the strands.

The strings will be described in a forthcoming edition of the journal Physical Review Letters.

Shigeyoshi Osaki of Japan's Nara Medical University has been interested in the mechanical properties of spider silk for a number of years.

In particular, he has studied the "dragline" silk that spiders dangle from, quantifying its strength in a 2007 paper in Polymer Journal.

Dr Osaki has perfected methods of obtaining large quantities of this dragline silk from captive-bred spiders and has now turned his attention to the applications of the remarkable material.

"Bowed string instruments such as the violin have been the subject of many scientific studies," he writes.

"However, not all of the details have been clarified, as most players have been interested in the violin body rather than the properties of the bow or strings."

Dr Osaki used 300 female Nephila maculata spiders - one of the species of "golden orb-weavers" renowned for their complex webs - to provide the dragline silk.

For each string, Dr Osaki twisted between 3,000 and 5,000 individual strands of silk in one direction to form a bundle. The strings were then prepared from three of these bundles twisted together in the opposite direction.

He then set about measuring their tensile strength - a critical factor for violinists wishing to avoid breaking a string in the midst of a concerto.

The spider-silk strings withstood less tension before breaking than a traditional but rarely used gut string, but more than an aluminium-coated, nylon-core string.

An electron microscope image shows a section of the bundle just 70 millionths of a metre wide

A closer study using an electron microscope showed that, while the strings themselves were perfectly round, in cross-section the strands had been compressed into a range of different shapes that all fit snugly together, leaving no space between them.

Dr Osaki suggests that it is this feature of the strings that lends them their strength and, crucially, their unique tone.

"Several professional violinists reported that spider strings... generated a preferable timbre, being able to create a new music," he wrote.

"The violin strings are a novel practical use for spider silk as a kind of high value-added product, and offer a distinctive type of timbre for both violin players and music lovers worldwide."

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BBC News - Allen Stanford found guilty in $7bn Ponzi scheme

6 March 2012 Last updated at 18:10

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Allen Stanford found guilty in $7bn Ponzi scheme

Financier and cricket mogul Allen Stanford has been found guilty by a court in Houston, Texas, of running a $7bn Ponzi scheme.

Stanford, 61, was convicted on 13 of the 14 charges.

He had pleaded not guilty to defrauding some 30,000 investors with bogus investments through his Stanford International Bank.

Prosecutors said he issued fraudulent certificates of deposit through the offshore bank in Antigua.

The jury of eight men and four women found him not guilty of one charge of wire fraud.

Stanford faces a sentence of up to 20 years in prison for the most serious charge. However, the judge will have to decide whether the sentences should run consecutively.

Stanford's defence was based on blaming a former chief financial officer, James Davis, and arguing that most of the money was lost by court-appointed receivers following the bank's seizure.

Prosecutors said Stanford's bogus certificates of deposits had promised artificially high returns to fund his lavish lifestyle.

Stanford was the organiser of the money-spinning Stanford Twenty20 Cricket tournament in the West Indies in 2008.

Forbes Magazine listed him as the 605th richest man in the world in 2006.

He has spent three years in detention after being denied bail.

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