Off-side slaughter

Virender Sehwag has scored hundreds against all opposition in all climes, but this is one pitch he will want to carry with him wherever he goes. Thwarted by the weather for most of the third day, he made the most of clearer skies on the fourth, and ensured that all the Pakistan bowlers suffered.

Sehwag's wagon-wheel shows just how efficient he was in creaming boundaries on the off side - 37 of his 46 fours came in that region, and it didn't matter how many fielders Inzamam-ul-Haq placed in that region, Sehwag still managed to find the gaps, and the fence.

On a pitch which offered the bowlers absolutely nothing, Pakistan were quite powerless against Sehwag's ability to convert even the good balls into run-scoring opportunities. With the ball hardly deviating after pitching, Sehwag was comfortably able to plonk his foot forward or back - or sometimes not move them at all - and simply hit through the line of the ball. Shahid Afridi had blasted 101 off 76 good-length balls; Sehwag wasn't quite as devastating, but he still managed to score at more than a run a ball off the deliveries which pitched on a good length.

The only bowler who managed to somewhat curb Sehwag's strokeplay was Shoaib Akhtar, who only went for 22 from 31 balls. Against the rest, Sehwag scored at close to a run a ball or more - Rana Naved-ul-Hasan was the one picked out for special treatment, disappearing for 65 from just 46 balls, 14 of which were banished to the fence.