The 5 best bowling performances by Sachin Tendulkar

#5 4/38 Against Australia in Dhaka (1998)

The quarter-final of the Wills International Cup in Dhaka in 1998 saw the magical all-round performance of the greatest batsman India ever produced. Tendulkar struck a blistering century (141 runs off 128 balls) and took his team’s total to a mammoth 307/8. He received some great support from Ajay Jadeja who scored a quickfire 71 from 65 balls. With the kind of firepower in the Australian ranks, it was not going to be easy to defend such a total. Again, it was Javagal Srinath who provided the first wicket in the form of Adam Gilchrist (25) and then Sunil Joshi dealt a double blow to Aussies by removing Mark Waugh (74) and Ricky Ponting (41).

Tendulkar came on to bowl and wove his magic around the middle and lower middle order and the batsmen, again, failed to get better of his variations. He took the wickets of Steve Waugh, Michael Bevan, Damien Martyn and Bradley Young to squash all the hopes of an Australian escape. India won the game comfortably in the end by a margin of 44 runs and Tendulkar received the Man of the Match award for his all-round performance.