Adam bacher catch Momentum and substance came Sidhu, who hit eight fours and three sixes, and Tendulkar, who scored 177, 281, while adding that he was, with 29 fours and three sixes with an unemployment rate of nearly 90. Tendulkar was impossible to contain, especially in the second morning, when he scored 60 in 64 balls. Own excesses fell while attempting to lift a ball straight to mid Dale window and was shot. It was a ticket to enjoy the genius batsmanship. Mark Waugh played well Claassen input and action inspired by Michael Kasprowicz and Mark Taylor.
Tendulkar has a debutant for company, with another to follow. He takes 17 balls to score his first run, but 101 come off the next 97 deliveries. It isn't the prettiest of Tendulkar's Test tons, but it is one of the most savage, characterised by pulls and vicious upper-cuts. The South Africans have a plan for India, and Tendulkar makes a mockery of it. By the time Tendulkar's innings endsThis was the tour that gave Indian team it's self-belief. They almost won the series without any contribution from the master. In the last test in Sydney, Sachin single-mindedly took upon himself to score and cut out the risks involved in batting. In his whole innings, he did not play cover drive which is a bread and butter shot for him as he got out driving in the tour quite often. He scored 241 and batted with Laxman who at that time was batting like a magician and scored freely.
That was 1997, India’s tour of South Africa, after being humiliated in the first test match in Durban, the Indian Team was determined to perform much better on the slower pitch of Cape Town though they were not even given a 3 day practice match to know the conditions better. South Africa won the toss and chose to bat first. Gary Kirsten who had missed out in the first test, hit a well paced hundred after being dropped twice by Indians. Indian bowlers tried pretty hard but because new ball bowlers Javagal Srinath and Venkatesh Prasad never had anyone to back them,On his way to 111 at the Wanderers in 1992, Tendulkar, at 19 years and 217 days, became the youngest batsman to reach 1000 Test runs, displacing Kapil Dev. "In my era, I think he's the best player I've ever had the pleasure of playing against," Allan Donald, who bowled to Tendulkar in that match, said in 2007.
