The 5 best bowling performances by Sachin Tendulkar

#2 5/50 Against Pakistan in Kochi (2005)

Tendulkar's love affair with Kochi continued against Pakistan in 2005 as he ran through the Pakistani middle order to skittle them out for 194 in the chase of 282. India posted a daunting 281 with centurion efforts from Virender Sehwag (108) and Rahul Dravid (104) after losing Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly early in their innings. Arshad Khan took a four-for and restricted the Indian middle-order from pushing the total towards 300. Laxmipathy Balaji drew the first blood for India as he prized out Kamran Akmal at the score of 45.

Ashish Nehra and Zaheer Khan too chipped in with wickets to reduce Pakistan to 64 for 4. Tendulkar assumed the mantle of further destruction as he broke the 48-run stand between Inzamam ul Haq and Mohammad Hafeez by bowling the former for 37. The rest of middle-order collapsed like a house of cards as the batsmen failed to read the bowling variations of Tendulkar. Zaheer applied the finishing touches to the Pakistan innings as he castled Naved ul Hasan to hand Pakistan an 87-run defeat. Tendulkar returned with figures of 10-01-50-5.