Slash and burn

Of all the tributes pouring in for Sachin Tendulkar after the 200* he scored in an ODI, the best is this one from Sambit Bal, the editor of CricInfo.

Sachin Tendulkar’s record-breaking didn’t stop on the field on February 24. He shattered many on Cricinfo. We recorded 45 million page views that day, and our highest number of unique users in India and the United States. The match report for the Gwalior ODI became Cricinfo's single most read piece of content.

There are naysayers out there - the most prominent complaint being that this score was made while setting a target in an ODI and not while chasing one.

*sigh*

(By the way, considering how difficult it is to score a big century while chasing, doesn't that put MS Dhoni's 183* in an altogether different perspective now?)