{"id":9651,"date":"2008-12-16T16:12:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T16:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/12\/16\/sachin-dedicates-test-ton-to-mumbai-victims\/"},"modified":"2008-12-16T16:12:52","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T16:12:52","slug":"sachin-dedicates-test-ton-to-mumbai-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/16\/sachin-dedicates-test-ton-to-mumbai-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Sachin dedicates Test ton to Mumbai victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Indian hero leads team to victory over England<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"280\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/SachinTendulkarMumbai_180x232.jpg\"\/>INDIAN hero Sachin Tendulkar dedicated his match-winning century to the victims of the Mumbai atrocities as India capped a remarkable last-day performance to beat England in the first Test in Chennai.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Tendulkar hit his 41st Test century to give India a six-wicket victory in a match that looked beyond them at one stage. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>They raced to victory on the fifth day of the match with 20 overs to spare. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The England team, who donated their match fee to the Mumbai victims, were praised for returning to India following the atrocities which claimed over 200 lives. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Tendulkar who hit the winning runs said the century was more special in light of the recent attacks on Mumbai \u2013 the city in which he was born. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThis was one of my best hundreds, given the conditions, the surface, the target and especially after what happened in Mumbai,\u201d he said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cBy no means am I saying that this will help everyone forget what happened in Mumbai, but I\u2019d like to thank England for coming back and playing. We have witnessed a wonderful Test match and people enjoyed the cricket the way it\u2019s supposed to be.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cI don\u2019t think India winning and me scoring a hundred will help those who lost their lives, but if we can help by contributing in some small way then we will do whatever we can to do that. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cIt is a terrible loss and our hearts are with them. From my point of view I see it as an attack on India, not just Mumbai, and I\u2019d like to dedicate this hundred to all those who have gone through such terrible things.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The second and final Test match will begin in Mohali on Friday. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian hero leads team to victory over England INDIAN hero Sachin Tendulkar dedicated his match-winning century to the victims of the Mumbai atrocities as India capped a remarkable last-day performance to beat England in the first Test in Chennai. &#13; Tendulkar hit his 41st Test century to give India a six-wicket victory in a match [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}