India beat England by six wickets
Updated at: 1600 PST, Monday, December 15, 2008
CHENNAI: Sachin Tendulkar hit the winning runs and reached his 41st test hundred with a swept boundary Monday as India set a record for a victorious fourth-innings run chase on home soil to beat England by six wickets in the first cricket test.
Tendulkar shared an unbroken 163-run, fifth-wicket partnership with Yuvraj Singh (85 not out) to guide India to 387 for four with20 overs to spare on the last day.
Returning to the test squad after eight months, Yuvraj had some anxious moments against paceman Andrew Flintoff on a wicket where occasional deliveries kept low, but came out of his shell to pull left-arm spinner Monty Panesar for a towering six over mid-wicket. Yuvraj's 131-ball knock featured eight other boundaries.
England a 75-run first innings lead after scoring 316 and then dismissing India for 241, then got into a dominating position when skipper Kevin Pietersen declared the second innings at 311 for nine on Sunday