what theyre looking to do i didnt want to give donald any pace at all i knew that mcmillan was their main striker donald was never going to hit a boundary he would try for a single and if i bowl seamup then it would be easier for him to hit me so i tried to keep the ball slow and mix my pace he recalledtendulkar would contribute in the final too castling brian lara 33legspin to righties offspin to lefties in kochi vs aus 1998chasing 310 australia were cruising at one stage before tendulkar took 532 to help india win by 41 runs they were wellplaced at 180 for two in the 28th over when i came into bowl at that time a left and a righthander were at the crease i decided to bowl leg spin to righthanders and off spin to left handers i had planned it with nayan mongia wksince michael bevan was stepping out even before the ball was bowled i indicated to mongia that if he steps out ill bowl outside leg stump and it actually happened that way it was one of those days when my leg spin was landing at the right spot and i got the ball to turn and bounce quite a bit he saidanother fivefor in kochi this time vs pak 2005kochi proved to be secondtime lucky for spinner tendulkar on april 2 2005 he took 550 to bowl india to an 87run win over pakistan in the first odi of the series chasing 282 pakistan had slumped to 644my spell was crucial i thought i should experiment so i went round the wicket to bowl all my overs to the righthanders because i was getting the ball to turn quite a bit i thought i would bowl wide and make them sweep a wrist spinner always gets bounce on the kochi wicket so i knew that if i could get bounce there was a good chance that the batsmen might topedge the ball while looking to sweep i was able to do thattestswhen an 18yearold parttimer got taylor border adelaide 1992on a seamerfriendly wicket india demolished australia by bowling them out for just 145 on day one bowling his seamers on a helpful wicket tendulkar picked up mark taylor 11 and aussie skipper allan border for a duck i got both before lunch on day one taylor insideedged a ball onto his stumps while trying to cut a ball and border was caught behind by keeper chandrakant pandit while trying to drive he remembers i would have got ian healy too but someone dropped his catchtrapping steve waugh and martyn adelaide 2003while rahul dravid 233 72 rightly got all the accolades for winning that test for india tendulkar chipped in with the crucial wickets of australian steve waugh and damien martyn in the second innings as australia were bowled out for 196 coincidentally both were brilliantly caught by dravid in the lone slip in the second