Born to make history

This one's for the ages.

When Sachin Tendulkar retires he is going to be associated with zillions of cricketing records. As with so many special things destined for him, here is one more curious association between history of the colonial game in his land and its greatest product here:

If you join the two digits of Sachin Tendulkar's age (in years) at the time of his 1st Test century to the two digits of Sachin Tendulkar's age at the time of his 1st ODI century (in that order) we get a significant year in the history of Indian cricket.

The year is 1721. It corresponds to the 'earliest known reference to cricket being played in India.'

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