Sachin Tendulkar and the nervous 90s

>> Ian Bishop, now a television commentator, will remember the sharp catch Sherwin Campbell took at backward point off his bowling to send back Tendulkar for 92 in the first innings of the Barbados Test in 1997.

>> Jacques Kallis got Tendulkar to edge to wicketkeeper Mark Boucher when he was three short of a ton that would have been his first century against South Africa at home.
Tendulkar didn't score a home ton against South Africa for another two series. He finally got two tons off the Proteas earlier this year.

>> Ashley Giles, the feisty England left-arm spinner had Tendulkar stumped by James Foster for 90 in the Bangalore Test of December, 2001. Frustrated by continuous leg side bowling, Tendulkar tried to hit Giles out of the park, only to be stumped. It was the first time he had been stumped in Test cricket.

>> Imagine being dismissed for 92 by an irregular bowler. Michael Vaughan's spin did Tendulkar in at Nottingham in 2002. India were on the back foot as they trailed by 260 runs in the first innings. In the second essay, Tendulkar was going great guns before he lost concentration to an off break from Vaughan to be clean bowled.

>> Tendulkar was looking to break Sunil Gavaskar's all time record for the most Test centuries. On 94, he lost his way to be caught at gully by Asim Kamal off Naved-ul-Hasan in the Mohali Test in 2005.
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>> Facing Paul Collingwood, Tendulkar did not offer a shot to an outside-the-off-stump delivery. To his surprise, Simon Taufel raised his finger and Tendulkar (91) was denied yet another century. It was a bad lbw decision by any yardstick.

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