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TOI Sports Desk | TIMESOFINDIA.COM

On this day, Sachin Tendulkar broke Sunil Gavaskar's long-standing world record

Almost a year and six Tests after equalling Sunil Gavaskar's mark of most Test centuries, Sachin Tendulkar scored his 35th hundred in the longest format on December 10, 2005, to rewrite another world record in his name.

Batting in the second Test against Sri Lanka at Delhi's Feroz Shah Kotla ground (now renamed as the Arun Jaitley Stadium), Tendulkar scored 109 on the opening day of the match in India's first innings.

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