Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar averages above 80 against England in Test cricket. So Nasser Hussain and his men would not have been surprised to see the little master stroke his way to 88 runs off 144 balls in the Indian first innings thereby demoralising the inexperienced English attack. There were the trademark straight drives and the flick of the wrists to send the ball past the ropes. The little master punctuated his knock with 13 boundaries and was unlucky to have missed out on a Test century. Tendulkar's cracking innings was a glowing example of India's superiority over the visitors; the home team went on to win the Test match by a whopping ten wickets!