An essay I did for the new edition of Sachin: Genius Unplugged, Westland books, edited by Suresh Menon.
‘A hundred international hundreds, split almost evenly between Tests and one-dayers, tells us something about his all-encompassing range, of watchful first mornings and exhilarating floodlit nights, of victories seized or defeats delayed, of white and blue, of Cape Town and Sharjah . . . It matters because, as with Grace, it hadn’t been considered possible. Indeed, it hadn’t been considered at all.’