Sachin Tendulkar has spoken of his relief after he became the first player to hit 100 international centuries.

The Indian batsman had waited over a year before he reached the milestone in Friday's Asia Cup match against Bangladesh.

Despite making the record, the 'Little Master' claimed that he was not thinking about it when he was at the crease.

"It has not sunk in yet," he told the Neo Cricket channel. "I was not thinking about the milestone. The media started all this. In the restaurant, room service, everyone was talking about the 100th hundred.

"This has been a tough phase for me. I started off the season batting reasonably well, but I was luckless. It does not matter how many hundreds you have, you still have to grind it out.

"This was difficult to understand because nobody talked about my 99 hundreds."

Tendulkar scored his first century for India against England in 1990.