Puri: Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar on Friday became the first batsman in history to score 100 international centuries. He made this century in the Asia Cup match against Bangladesh at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium in Dhaka

International sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik created a sand sculpture of 15 feet long cricket bat with a message “Congrats 100th Ton” to congratulate Sachin for his great achievement at Puri Beach of Odisha on Friday.

“I was watching the match on Television. When he scored century and created a history, I thought of wishing Sachin though my sand sculpture. I used 10 tons of sand to create this bat within 30 mins. I will send picture of this sculpture to Sachin” he said.

Pattnaik has created many different sand sculptures on Sachin and Cricket in different occasions.

Sudarsan has so far participated in more than 49 international sand sculpture championships across the world and won many awards including 2008 world championship title at Berlin for the country. He is also a Brand ambassador of Nalco. Pattnaik also running a sand art school at Puri Beach in Orissa.