Sydney hosted the first final of the CB Series and Tendulkar had a few pending issues he had to address: an ODI century in Australia, a century in 37 innings, a chase-winning century since 2001, a century in any chase since March 2004. All those boxes were neatly and effortlessly ticked in the 120 deliveries he faced in the middle as India eased past the 239 runs that the hosts had scored.