Tendulkar lesson for English

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Gene Hackman

Sachin Tendulkar crafted his 41st Test century as India stormed to a magnificent six-wicket victory over England in the first Test in Chennai, reports BBC.
Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh (85) contributed an unbeaten 163 to the home side's 387-4 - the fourth highest successful run chase in Test history.
Resuming on 131-1, the hosts lost Rahul Dravid (4) to Andrew Flintoff early on.
But they could not capitalise on a wearing pitch and Tendulkar hit the winning boundary to finish 103 not out.
It was the highest successful fourth-innings run chase witnessed anywhere in Asia and also owed much to Yuvraj, who many doubted could replicate his one-day form in the Test arena.
England began day five as firm favourites but they will be left to reflect on a return of just 57 runs between lunch and tea on day four and a failure to dismiss their opponents in 98.3 overs.
Questions will be asked of captain Kevin Pietersen, who decided against bowling Steve Harmison in the morning session and James Anderson in the afternoon session.
Monty Panesar, the tourists' premier spinner, failed to turn the ball and may be criticised for a lack of variety as he returned figures of 0-105 from 27 overs.
India, who were 5-0 up on England when the seven-match one-day series was abandoned, will carry their momentum into the second Test, which starts in Mohali Friday.
Pietersen will be especially disappointed after Flintoff had given his side the perfect start, inducing an out-of-form Dravid into edging behind in the third over.
But Tendulkar, predictably, settled in quickly and guided the hosts past 150 with a superbly-timed cut through gully off Flintoff.
Alastair Cook failed to collect a difficult chance offered by Tendulkar off Swann at silly point and Flintoff almost bowled Gautam Gambhir (66) via his inside edge with an unconventional one-armed delivery.
The batsmen were otherwise unruffled and soon negated the effect of Graeme Swann and Flintoff, which led to the introduction of Panesar and Anderson, who looked anything other than threatening initially.
But Anderson continued to probe outside Gambhir's off stump and his perseverance paid dividends when he angled one across the left-hander, who slashed loosely and was caught by a sprawling Paul Collingwood at gully.