But Tendulkar's 38th Test hundred has gone a long way towards ruining their chances of equalling their own world record of 16.

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Instead of a probabilistic world where we are comfortable making decisions according to, say, the odds of thunderstorms ruining a picnic, we are thrust into binary hell, where the choices and chances are only two: win or lose, white or black, benign or malignant.

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