TENDULKAR TO BAT DOWN THE ORDER?

Sachin Tendulkar may bat down the order and also give more stability to the middle order.Sachin Tendulkar has hit a bad patch of late and has been averaging less than 20 in this one day series despite having a very good start to the tournament where he scored a couple of 30's in the beginning.Tendulkar had a brilliant test series but has been dismissed clean bowled and leg before wicket most of the times in this one day series.Gavaskar also said that Sachin batting lower down the order might protect him from the moving ball.India may well be able to get a batting order that actually bats deep rather than just being strong on paper.

India Australia Test Match Second day Review

The second day was dominated by the Indians and they rattled the Aussies who began dropping catches in an uncharacterestic manner.The day started with the useless MS Dhoni getting out for a low score of 16 again.Then Sachin Tendulkar scored his 17 th score of 150 or more runs and then got out with a standing ovation from the crowd which was a last test match in Australia for the champion.Anil Kumble and Harbhajan singh put on 107 runs for the 8 th wicket before Harbhajan got out for 63 runs and RP singh followed him for a duck.India wound up on 526 runs with Kumble the last man out for 87 runs.Australia finished the day at 62 for no loss.Catch up here on all five days for review.

TENDULKAR TO BE KNIGHTED?

The English Prime minister Gordon Brown made a great gesture by congratulating Indian test team's great victory at Perth and said that players like Sachin Tendulkar could be awarded with British titles such as the knighthood.Brown who is in India for the official visit said that the award commitee would consider giving a top honour to Sachin Tendulkar.Once upon a time players from commonwealth countries were awarded the knighthood and on that basis alone sachin could be knighted for his contribution to the game of cricket.Lets hope that a genius like him is awarded in England.