I saw his first Test century, at Old Trafford in 1990, and was enchanted by the prodigal performance of one so young. But if someone had whispered to me that 20 years later Sachin Tendulkar would be posting a 50th Test hundred I would have laughed. How could it ever be? There simply wouldn't be enough Test matches staged before his hair turned grey and his tummy began to swell, would there? What, was he going to play for India until he was fifty-five or something?