Tendulkar needed just two hours and 111 balls for his 80 runs, which included 14 fours.

The little master played ferocious hooks and square cuts as he readied himself for sterner Tests ahead.

"I tell you what, they [the Australians] are going to be bouncing the hell out of him. They believe he has a weakness in the top half of his body," Dean Jones, a former Victorian great, had said just a few days ago.

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