Tendulkar falls short again as England wraps up series
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August 23, 2011, Tuesday
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SACHIN Tendulkar fell nine runs short of his 100th international hundred yesterday as India collapsed to 283 all out against England, losing the final test by an innings and eight runs - and the series 4-0.
India made it to lunch without losing a wicket but Tendulkar's wicket was the second of seven to fall in the second session for 21 runs.
Stranded on 99 hundreds since he hit 111 against South Africa at the World Cup in March, the Little Master stood distraught at the wicket after being given lbw to Tim Bresnan - trudging off and taking with him India's hopes of saving the match.
Graeme Swann took six wickets as England comprehensively beat the side it has deposed at the top of the rankings with a seventh innings victory in 13 tests.
After Rahul Dravid carried his bat through India's first-innings 300, it had looked as though Tendulkar and the unheralded Mishra could salvage a draw.
Mishra, promoted up the order as Gautam Gambhir dropped down following his second-day concussion, swept and cut to match his career-best first-class score and better his previous test high by 34.
But the pair's 134-run fourth-wicket stand - India's best partnership of a dismal series - ended when Swann bowled him with a delivery that he simply missed.
The home crowd celebrated that breakthrough but, such is Tendulkar's standing as one of test cricket's all-time greats, that a hush fell over the south London ground when Bresnan dismissed him.
The 38-year-old Tendulkar hit his first of his 52 test centuries in England aged 17 in 1990, saving the second test at Old Trafford with 119 not out, but like most of his teammates had struggled as England won the first three tests.
But what could be his last test innings in England was far from a classic knock. Tendulkar was dropped twice off Swann, by Alastair Cook on 70 at short leg and Matthew Prior on 85 behind the stumps.
He also survived two lbw shouts against the spinner before Bresnan finally ended his highest innings of the series.
After a fruitless 17 overs, Swann was suddenly on a roll and wrapped up the win by bowling last-man Sreesanth for figures of 6-106.
On Sunday, another monumental performance from Dravid had delayed England's progress towards a series whitewash.
Dravid became the third Indian batsman to carry his bat in a test with an unbeaten 146 compiled in six hours 19 minutes.
India made it to lunch without losing a wicket but Tendulkar's wicket was the second of seven to fall in the second session for 21 runs.
Stranded on 99 hundreds since he hit 111 against South Africa at the World Cup in March, the Little Master stood distraught at the wicket after being given lbw to Tim Bresnan - trudging off and taking with him India's hopes of saving the match.
Graeme Swann took six wickets as England comprehensively beat the side it has deposed at the top of the rankings with a seventh innings victory in 13 tests.
After Rahul Dravid carried his bat through India's first-innings 300, it had looked as though Tendulkar and the unheralded Mishra could salvage a draw.
Mishra, promoted up the order as Gautam Gambhir dropped down following his second-day concussion, swept and cut to match his career-best first-class score and better his previous test high by 34.
But the pair's 134-run fourth-wicket stand - India's best partnership of a dismal series - ended when Swann bowled him with a delivery that he simply missed.
The home crowd celebrated that breakthrough but, such is Tendulkar's standing as one of test cricket's all-time greats, that a hush fell over the south London ground when Bresnan dismissed him.
The 38-year-old Tendulkar hit his first of his 52 test centuries in England aged 17 in 1990, saving the second test at Old Trafford with 119 not out, but like most of his teammates had struggled as England won the first three tests.
But what could be his last test innings in England was far from a classic knock. Tendulkar was dropped twice off Swann, by Alastair Cook on 70 at short leg and Matthew Prior on 85 behind the stumps.
He also survived two lbw shouts against the spinner before Bresnan finally ended his highest innings of the series.
After a fruitless 17 overs, Swann was suddenly on a roll and wrapped up the win by bowling last-man Sreesanth for figures of 6-106.
On Sunday, another monumental performance from Dravid had delayed England's progress towards a series whitewash.
Dravid became the third Indian batsman to carry his bat in a test with an unbeaten 146 compiled in six hours 19 minutes.
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