India vs West Indies: When Prithvi Shaw nearly fell the Sachin Tendulkar way

For the second straight Test in this two-match rubber, India wiped out the hapless West Indies in three days to assert their dominance on home soil and cap a record-equalling 10 successive Test series wins at home.

In the second and final Test in Hyderabad on Sunday, Virat Kohli's Indians crushed Jason Holder-led West Indies by 10 wickets with teenage sensation Prithvi Shaw scoring the winning runs to cap a remarkable initiation into Test cricket.

While the day saw India pacer Umesh Yadav take 4/45 in West Indies' second innings to become the third Indian pacer after Kapil Dev and Javagal Srinath to take 10 wickets in a home Test, the moment that stood out was Shaw escaping an LBW appeal against Jason Holder when he ducked to a short ball that did not bounce enough. The ball impacted Shaw on his upper arm and would have gone on to clip the bails, as the replays showed.

However, England umpire Ian Gould negated the appeal, which after West Indies opted for Decision Review System (DRS), came out as Umpire's Call. Had Gould originally given Shaw out, the diminutive right-handed batsman would have been on his way back to the pavilion.

This incident bought back memories of another diminutive Indian batsman, albeit in the days before the neutral umpires stood at both the ends and more importantly, the days before DRS was even thought about.

The legendary Sachin Tendulkar was given out in a similar fashion, in the second innings of the first Test against Australia in Adelaide of the 1999-2000 series.

So much hue and cry was made then, more sympathising with Tendulkar when the batting maestro ducked to a Glenn McGrath short ball and the ball did not rise much, the point of impact being around the shoulder region. The Australian umpire Daryl Harper, after a long thought, declared Tendulkar out. The Indian batsman had faced just five deliveries and had not even opened his account.

So much noise was made against Harper that many believed the umpire erroneously adjudged Tendulkar leg before wicket. For starters, they believed that the ball had hit Tendulkar's upper body and not his legs (as in the true sense of the word, Leg Before Wicket) and that he had not bent so much for the ball to have gone on to hit the stumps but for the interception.

But being the true sportsman that Tendulkar was, he walked away without any protest, though the disappointment of being dismissed for nought was visible. The decision was regarded bizarre, but in the true letter of the laws, he was rightfully out.

On Sunday, it was Adelaide 1999 revisited, except that Shaw was given not out and Gould, smilingly, apologised to bowler Holder for signalling not out in the first place.

Holder, and the West Indies, may have been robbed of a wicket, but they accepted the decision sportingly, just like the genius Tendulkar did almost 19 years ago.