With Gautam Gambhir taking three runs from Jimmy Anderson's opening ball of the innings, Virender Sehwag faced the second. In the first innings, he had tried to withdraw his bat from a Stuart Broad lifter and got a faint glove to the keeper. That was unfortunate, before the equation had been laid out over the following three days by the England bowlers and Alastair Cook. This was different, for here was a chance to save some face. Anderson's second ball was shorter of a length and climbed outside off stump. It could have been waved by, but this is Sehwag. He swished flatfootedly, edged and a jubilant Andrew Strauss took the catch at first slip. Sehwag slunk back to the dressing room, having collected not just the first king pair of his career but only the 13th in all 2002 Test matches.
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