Tendulkar bucks trend to lead India to win

Sachin Tendulkar played a masterly knock today to guide India to victory over Australia in the 1st match of the best of 3 CB series finals. You can see the scorecard here.

What's particularly interesting is that this is completely opposite to Tendulkar's normal performance batting second - take a look at the recent Cricinfo article discussing how Tendulkar far prefers to bat first.

There is always an exception to prove the rule!