India v England: James Anderson turns his tour around and finds a way to thrive in adversity He should really have been the man of the match in Calcutta. He kept the pressure on India from his opening spell, and took six wickets for 127, including Tendulkar, caught behind, to terminate the 76 that looks like being his last Test innings of worth. Six wickets may not sound a lot, but look at some of the names in that graveyard. Steve Harmison took his Test wickets in India at 47 runs each, Devon Malcolm at 56, Brett Lee at 61, Waqar Younis at 76 - and Stuart Broad, to date, at 145. In Nagpur the conditions have been more encouraging for Anderson than in Calcutta. On the first two days at least this pitch suited pace bowlers more than spinners, because the vertical movement - up and down - was greater than the lateral. Steve Finn, being taller and quicker, would have been the ideal man to exploit this uneven bounce. But Anderson made good England's loss by bowling his fastest of this series and hitting the deck like a drunken sailor. First he dismissed Virender Sehwag with an inswinger. There are no doubt many reasons why a man should leap into Pietersen's arms, but the likely explanation is that Pietersen, as a Delhi Daredevil like Sehwag, offered Anderson some sound advice: bowl straight and bring the ball back in, because Sehwag has become all eye and no footwork. Sehwag's footwork had already been questionable in the three hours that England batted on, as Joe Root secured the lower order like a veteran. Only once did Sehwag break into a run - when he ran back from slip to stop leg byes, but so slowly that Ishant Sharma, India's exhausted fast bowler, got there first. No wonder Sehwag was late on his stroke. After tea Anderson switched to the pavilion end, from which Sharma had bowled and had savoured the uneven bounce. The great Tendulkar came in, and the great Tendulkar went, beaten by a ball that could have hit a crack, so sharply did it jag back. It was the ninth time Anderson had dethroned him. But Tendulkar seemed to be beaten for pace too. In his past nine Test innings he has been bowled five times - not always clean-bowled, as here when he got a thin inside edge, but still bowled, the most ignominious form of dismissal. Sehwag, Tendulkar and Gautam Gambhir: a profitable afternoon's work for Anderson, even if Gambhir has become the master of getting out when set. In every innings bar one he has got out between 35 and 65 - yet he is mentioned as a possible successor to MS Dhoni as Test captain. On a rather greener field than Nagpur, in New Zealand in March, Anderson should go to his 300th Test wicket. It will make another fitting memorial to his skill and some exceptional courage in the face of the adversities here.