We've heard all about leg-theory and Sachin Tendulkar, but today England found success with a new tactic - off-theory. After Andrew Flintoff and Simon Jones had unsettled Tendulkar with some rapid short stuff, the Yorkshire pair of Matthew Hoggard and Craig White concentrated on bowling exclusively outside off stump.

As our graph shows, they did not pitch a single delivery to Tendulkar on the stumps. Off 24 balls, Tendulkar did not score a single run - and the drip, drip effect worked, because off that 24th delivery Tendulkar chased a wide one and was caught behind.

White and Hoggard also found a good length with all but one of those deliveries. They were mechanical, disciplined - and hugely effective: this was the lowest score Tendulkar had been dismissed for in a Test against England since his very first innings, on this ground 12 years ago.

Including Jones and Flintoff, Tendulkar scored only two runs off 38 deliveries that pitched outside off stump - that's equivalent to 0.32 runs per over - as against 14 off 23 balls (3.65 per over) that pitched further across.

Tendulkar was not at his most fluent, and was in control of only 75% of his shots, as compared to 87% for Rahul Dravid, who played masterfully until he got a snorter from Hoggard. Tendulkar was in control more against White and Hoggard (79%) than he was against Flintoff and Jones (73%), even though it was the White/Hoggard axis that brought him down. Not entirely surprising this, as he was able to leave a number of those deliveries outside off. It was the one he couldn't resist that cost him.

Rob Smyth is on the staff of Wisden.com.

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