Pride at stake

Sachin Tendulkar practises his batting during a net session at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai on Sunday.

He returned after a long injury lay-off in the third Test at Nagpur but disappointed.

The ace batsman had scores of 8 and 2 in the two innings of the Test, as India crashed to a 329-run defeat, thereby losing the series to Australia.

Photographs: Deepak Salvi