An increasingly agitated home side had been frustrated as Tendulkar and Amit Mishra added 144 for the fourth wicket, but once Swann made the breakthrough the rest of India's resistance crumbled. The innings folded in 15 overs with England winning by an innings and eight runs.
Swann's success made it the complete series for England, where everyone has played a key role in either setting up, positioning or securing a victory. This was a display of attacking offspin of the highest quality although the wide smile he wore when he savoured his fifth wicket as Gautam Gambhir sliced to backward point, and his sixth to complete victory, hadn't been so evident during the earlier part of the day.
By batting throughout the morning without further loss India had managed their first wicketless session of the series, increasing the prospects of a draw that would have salvaged a modicum of pride. However, that was being overshadowed by the progress of Tendulkar towards the century that would have completed his 100th international hundred - the landmark that has stalked him throughout the series. It continued to prove elusive.
Tim Bresnan, with his first ball of new spell, swung one back into Tendulkar who was taken on the pad and Rod Tucker raised his finger. There was a mixture of celebration at a vital wicket mixed with shock and disappointment. Replays showed it was clipping leg stump, so DRS wouldn't have saved Tendulkar. It hadn't been a classic Tendulkar innings by any means, but the fact he'd had at least three lives raised the belief that it was to be his day.
The previous evening England had failed to appeal for a stumping when Tendulkar momentarily lifted his foot and two further opportunities were missed on the final day. Alastair Cook dropped a relatively straightforward chance at short leg when Tendulkar had 70 and Matt Prior shelled a thick edge with him on 85. During a wonderful contest with Swann there was also an lbw appeal from a missed sweep that, had there been the DRS and England had reviewed, would have been overturned. The look on Tendulkar's face when he was finally given suggested he, too, would have reviewed given the chance but it wouldn't have mattered.
For all his failings with the ball, Mishra has shown tremendous application with the bat that has often been missing from some of his team-mates. For a while it appeared he may even beat his partner to three figures but Swann's persistence paid off when a delivery scooted past the edge. His presence, and the missed chances off Tendulkar, had certainly got England hot under the colour and Andrew Strauss was given an official warning for his players walking across the pitch.
England certainly know how to sense an opening and continued to surge through line up. Suresh Raina completed a horror match as he was given lbw to complete a pair, which used up 42 deliveries, although it was a poor decision from Simon Taufel with inside edge before pad and the ball was also heading over the stumps.
England 1st Innings: 591-6 dec (I Bell 235, K Pietersen 175; S Sreesanth 3-123)
India 1st Innings: 300 (R Dravid 146 no, T Bresnan 3-54, G Swann 3-102)
India 2nd Innings:
V. Sehwag b Swann 33
R. Dravid c Cook
b Swann 13
V. Laxman b Anderson 24
S. Tendulkar b Bresnan 91
A. Mishra b Swann 84
S. Raina lbw b Swann 0
MS Dhoni c Swann
b Broad 3
G. Gambhir c Morgan
b Swann 3
RP Singh c Prior b Broad 0
I. Sharma not out 7
S. Sreesanth b Swann 6
Extras: (b12, lb7) 19
Total: (all out, 91 overs, 390 mins) 283
Result: England won by an innings and eight runs
Man-of-the-match: Ian Bell (ENG)
Series: England win four-match series 4-0
England-man-of-the-series: Stuart Broad
India man-of-the-series: Rahul Dravid
Source: http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=147315&date=2011-08-23
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