After those anxious moments when he was in his nineties, I celebrated along with every member of my team once he got there. We are proud of the feat, after all nobody has ever scored a century of century, but are we as proud of how he got it?

Will Sachin's constant failure to reach the desired three-figure mark force him to call it quits? I am afraid the answer to that question is an emphatic NO.

The epicenter of cricket shifts base and finds itself a new home in the sub-continent. It will stay here for the next two weeks as international teams from this hot-bed of activity, bare their arsenal for continental supremacy.

What the five wise men of Indian cricket have done for the Asia Cup does not look as futuristic as our chairman of selectors K Srikkanth believes.