Today, Sachin Tendulkar made 200 in a one day international. First time anyone's done that.
You know all that. What you may not know, and this is important, is what I was doing when he went about his business.
The first part of his knock I spent in office. Where everyone, except me, was watching him bat on TV. If you're a regular reader of my other blog, you'd know why I wasn't watching. And no, I didn't even watch him bat left-handed on the glass of my cubicle. That would have been an interesting answer to the "what were you doing when the 200 barrier in men's limited-overs internationals was breached for the first time in history" question.
Just after he reached his hundred, I left office, to go cover a football game.
It was a particularly one-sided game. Integral Coach Factory beat Central Excise 5-0, in case you want to know.
When the score was 3-0, about five minutes into the second half, someone told me Sachin was on 196 not out. A few minutes later, someone else told me he'd reached 200.
I watched some more football.
