It had taken Sachin 79 matches and 76 innings to score his first hundred, 4 years and 81 days since his debut. But once he did that, he has made his 18 hundreds overall in a period of just over four years in which he has played 115 innings in 119 matches, giving him an astonishing rate of a hundred every sixth innings.
Here is a list of Sachin's hundreds
Match Inn How Out BP Run Bls 4/6 Vs Ground Date
79 76 b CJ McDermott 2 110 130 8/ 2 Aus Colombo (RPS) 09 Sep 1994
84 81 run out 2 115 136 9/ 0 NZ Vadodara (IPCL) 28 Oct 1994
90 87 c JC Adams BStA Brown 2 105 134 10/ 0 WI Jaipur 11 Nov 1994
96 93 not out 2 112 107 15/ 1 SL Sharjah 09 Apr 1995
103 100 not out 2 127 136 15/ 1 Ken Cuttack 18 Feb 1996
106 103 run out 2 137 137 8/ 5 SL Delhi (Kotla) 02 Mar 1996
111 108 st Rashid Latif b Saqlain Mushtaq
2 100 111 9/ 1 Pak Singapore 05 Apr 1996
114 111 c Aamir Sohail b Waqar Younis 2 118 140 8/ 2 Pak Sharjah 15 Apr 1996
120 117 run out 2 110 138 5/ 1 SL Colombo (RPS) 28 Aug 1996
134 131 st G Kirsten N Boje 1 114 126 14/ 0 RSA Bombay (Wankh) 14 Dec 1996
140 137 c ADR Campbell b CN Evans 2 104 97 8/ 1 Zim Benoni 09 Feb 1997
148 145 b NJ Astle 2 117 137 13/ 2 NZ Bangalore 14 May 1997
181 175 c (sub) DR Martyn b SK Warne 2 100 89 5/ 7 Aus Kanpur 07 Apr 1998
187 181 c AC Gilchrist b DW Fleming 2 142 131 9/ 5 Aus Sharjah 22 Apr 1998
188 182 lbw b MS Kasprowich 2 134 131 12/ 3 Aus Sharjah 24 Apr 1998
191 185 not out 2 100 103 13/ 0 Ken Calcutta 31 May 1998
196 189 st RS Kaluwitharana b ST Jayasuriya
2 128 132 8/ 2 SL Colombo (RPS) 07 Jul 1998
198 191 not out 2 127 130 13/ 1 Zim Bulawayo 26 Sep 1998
Contributed by: Atul Kahate (AKahate@yahoo.com)