What a terrific achievement from the Little Master - to achieve one hundred international centuries is unlikely to be surpassed, although they said that about Courtney Walsh's Test wickets record, and that's long since bitten the dust.
One does wonder how long he will now play for, and whether getting to the milestone against a weak Bangladesh attack on a flat pitch is really the way he wanted to do it. I reckon a hundreth ton on a green one at Lords last summer would have been the best way to get past the post.
If I were him I'd retire - he has nothing left to prove. Great player, go out on a high.
A clip of his first tour in England that I'll never forget, and it's one of him taking a catch:
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