He said the council would now focus on ensuring there was still a fitting tribute to mark the anniversary, with final plans to be confirmed by the summer.
It was fitting that Tendulkar established the new mark against Australia, the overwhelmingly dominant team of his era - and a side against whom he has achieved distinguished success.
How fitting it was to see Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg in a hooded sweatshirt sitting behind the Knicks bench during Sunday's New York victory over Dallas.
Mark Williams was among the players predicting that the new fitting would help the players to predict the true path of the balls - and expecting a glut of big breaks to follow in the quarter-finals.