The ascendency of India as an economic world power

You already know that India has won the second test of the three test series against host England. After a disastrous batting performance in the first test, Indian batsmen could come back in full swing and scored a good total in the first innings. Alongside, pace bowler Zaheer Khan took 9 wickets in the test that has brought the Man of the Match prize for him. After facing a lot of criticism, Sachin Tendulkar appeared with his form in the first innings and played a brilliant 97 runs helping India to an imposing total of 481 in the first innings.

Sachin, in his post match reaction, said that India needed to keep the wining monument. Terming the seven wicket victory a “special”, Tendulkar also revealed that India had a plan of holding wickets in the first 15 to 20 overs because of seam movement during this period of time.