INDIA needed a little less than a session to wrap up an eight-wicket victory over Australia on the fifth morning in Chennai yesterday.

Australia debutant Moises Henriques was left stranded on 81 as his side were bowled out for 241, leaving India chasing just 50 to win the first Test.
That simply was not enough to cause any jitters for India, even when the wickets of Murali Vijay and Virender Sehwag fell to James Pattinson and Nathan Lyon, there was enough time for Sachin Tendulkar to delight the home crowd with maximums off his first two deliveries.
Vijay perished for 6 – which came via a straight, flat maximum down the ground off Lyon – as he picked out Henriques at short mid-off when he mistimed a drive off Pattinson and Sehwag followed in unusually tame fashion, edging to Michael Clarke at first slip as he defended the spinner.
Few in the Chennai crowd were disappointed, though, as that brought Tendulkar to the crease – and he gave them what they wanted by heaving his first two balls off Lyon for successive sixes.
He could not make it a hat-trick to win the game, though, but an edge for a single from Cheteshwar Pujara did the job in any case.
Earlier, Lyon could not help Henriques reach a debut century as Australia added just nine to their overnight score.
Lyon’s stout defence helped to repel the Indian bowlers for around 20 minutes before he was finally caught by Vijay at short-leg off Ravindra Jadeja.
The second of four Tests begins on Saturday in Hyderabad.

SCORECARD

AUSTRALIA first innings 380
India first innings 572
AUSTRALIA 2nd innings (o/n 232 for 9)
M. Henriques not out 81
P. Siddle b Jadeja 2
J. Pattinson c Sehwag b Ashwin 11
N. Lyon c Vijay b Jadeja 11
Extras: (lb-2, b-15) 17
Total: (all out, off 93 overs) 241
Fall of wickets: 1-34, 2-64, 3-65, 4-101, 5-121, 6-131, 7-137, 8-161, 9-175.
Bowling: Ashwin 32-6-95-5, Harbhajan Singh 27-6-55-2 Jadeja 31-8-72-3, Sharma 3-1-2-0.

INDIA 2nd innings
M. Vijay c Henriques b Pattinson 6
V. Sehwag c Clarke b Lyon 19
C. Pujara not out 8
S. Tendulkar not out 19
Extras: (b-4) 4
Total: (for 2 wickets, off 11.3 overs) 50
Fall of wickets: 1-16, 3-36.
Bowling: Pattinson 3-1-13-1, Lyon 5.3 -0-29-1, Siddle 3-2-4-0.