The Week That Was ... December 5 -11, 2005

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Surpassing Sunny It may have taken a while, but Sachin Tendulkar notched his 35th Test hundred against Sri Lanka on Saturday, overtaking Sunil Gavaskar's record of 34 which had stood for 22 years. "If you chase landmarks then it becomes a problem," Tendulkar reflected. On Tuesday, there was the rarest of situations when India breathed a collective sigh of relief as Tendulkar was trapped lbw by Muttiah Muralithan for 22. The reason? No-one wanted the little maestro's record to be achieved in an utterly meaningless Chennai Test reduced to two days by torrential rain.