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Pakistani teenager named Mushtaq Mohammad made 101 against India, on 12 th February, 1961. Indian Sachin Tendulkar in 16 yrs age missed the opportunity to touch the record of the youngest cricketer ever to score a Test hundred. In 1990, Sachin was out on 88 in Napier!
By Debarchan Guha , CEO
( pinnaclenews.in)
One February 12 th – On that day in 1961, a Pakistani teenager named Mushtaq Mohammad made 101 against India. Then he was 17 years, 82 days old. The youngest cricket ever to score a Test hundred. The record stood like a monument. Untouched for nearly three decades.
Then 1990 arrived. Same date. Different country. Same possibility arrived. Today is 12 th February. Yes, we are looking for one legend.
Cricket history always remembers the milestones. The hundreds. The 10 wickets haul. The records. The dates in bold. But sometimes the near-misses are where the story lives. Where you see the human one, not the superman.
He is SRT. Sachin Ramesh ( father’s name) Tendulkar was 16 yrs old then. He wanted that test hundred. He knew the entire country wanted it. He had his mind about the date. May be it was the coincidence. He reached close. Then he got out.
He would learn this lesson many times. That cricket gives and takes in the same breath. That you can control a drive but not where it lands. That 88 can feel like failure until you realize what you prevented.
India drew the match. The rain saved them, or he did, or both. The record was untouched with a Pakistani from 1961. The boy went back to the hotel. He would get another chance. He did.
But that morning in Napier, when he walked off for 88, he left something behind. Not the record. Something special to him . The proof that he could guided a team before he could legally drive a car. That the numbers didn’t matter as much as the standing up.
Mushtaq Mohammad’s record is a footnote now. Ultimately Ashraful broke it . In modern day cricket others will break it again. May be our one 14 yrs old Vaibhav Suryavanshi! But the image of Tendulkar at 16, lifting India from collapse, driving through the off-side like he had been doing it for decades, that is history now .
Some dates are not about what you achieve. They are about what you show. February 12, 1990, was that kind of date. The boy didn’t get the record. He got something harder to earn. He got seen. For 12 th February, Sachin Tendulkar should be remembered.
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