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espncricinfot too many bowlers among the current crop can claim to consistently trouble Sachin Tendulkar, but England's leading bowler surely can. They've played each other in only six Tests, but James Anderson has already dismissed Tendulkar five times, and he'll be England's go-to man to get Tendulkar out a few more times over the next month. Given the form Tendulkar is in, though, this is an excellent opportunity for him to correct those stats, and prove that his head-to-head against Anderson is just an aberration. What'll offer Anderson plenty of encouragement, though, is the fact that those dismissals of Tendulkar have come over three series. It all started in Tendulkar's hometown of Mumbai more than five years back. That wasn't a good Test for India or for Tendulkar: not only did India lose badly


, Tendulkar was also, quite shockingly, booed by his home crowd. And in the first innings he was dismissed by Anderson for a painstaking 21-ball 1, edging to the wicketkeeper. When India went to England next year, Anderson was Tendulkar's nemesis, dismissing him three times in the series. At Lord's Tendulkar had progressed to 37 - his highest score at the ground - when Anderson swung one back into him to trap him in front. A couple of Tests later, at The Oval, Anderson dismissed him twice in the Test, for 82 and 1, getting him once each off the outside edge and the inside edge. And when England toured India in 2008, Anderson got his man once more, again inducing an outside edge to gully. In all, Anderson has bowled 200 deliveries to Tendulkar in Tests and dismissed him five times at the cost of 96 runs. Those are figures that many bowlers would die for against Tendulkar. (Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie dismissed him six times each, while Allan Donald took him out five times, but most of those dismissals were before ESPNcricinfo's ball-by-ball came into service, due to which Tendulkar's personal averages against those bowlers remains unknown.)

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