Selfish Sachin to the fore again.

India lost the momentum in this test, sometime during the middle of the third day, during the middle session, between lunch and tea. Saching and Ganguly scored 59 runs during that. Sachin being the senior partner and also because he was already on 50 odd runs should have led from the front. Nothing much to talk about the struggles of Ganguly on the pitch. He hasn't done anything of note after the Brisbane hundred.

But as I have mentioned innumerable times, that Sachin primarily plays for himself since last three years and do not deserve the 'World's best batsman' tag at all, has proven me correct again. Sic. Now the common man on the streets also agree to it and the commentators and the writers have openly started discussing it. Hope the myth of Sachin would break soon. Or maybe it might not. Indians are a strange lot. Individuals have always been given priority over team.

Here are some excerpts from different sources

....So maybe, along with a woefully out-of-touch Sourav Ganguly, Tendulkar could shoulder some of the blame for not trying to yank the initiative away from Pakistan today. Post-lunch, India lost momentum, scratching out 129 runs in 58 overs, and although Pakistan strangled gamely, either of the two should have taken a leaf out of Sehwag's book.

After completing his half-century off just 80 balls, Sachin Tendulkar visibly slowed down towards the latter part of his innings, especially as he neared his 35th Test hundred. Which brings us to an interesting and oft-asked question – does Tendulkar go into his shell as he nears a landmark? The numbers would suggest he has done that a few times recently – in his last six hundreds, he has twice taken 40 or more deliveries to go from 80 to 100. He required 45 deliveries to get those 20 runs at Port-of-Spain, when he was coming out of a terrible slump in 2002, but had he got to his landmark here, it would probably have been his slowest journey from 80 to 100 – he had already taken 43 balls to move from 80 to 94.