By Oliver Brett

Jaffer had struck 23 boundaries by tea on Friday in Calcutta

Wasim Jaffer's unbeaten 192, the third best score in a Calcutta Test, put India in a dominant position on day one of the second Test against Pakistan.

Jaffer added 136 with Rahul Dravid (50) and 175 with Sachin Tendulkar (82) as India racked up 352-3 against a forlorn Pakistan side at a packed Eden Gardens.

Shoaib Akhtar started, but was clearly still suffering from flu and managed only nine overs of gentle pace.

Skipper Shoaib Malik missed out, unable to recover from an ankle injury.

He was replaced in the starting line-up by middle-order batsman Faisal Iqbal, while Younus Khan took over captaincy duties.

With their premier bowler rendered impotent, Pakistan were left with just three other bowling options - and the remaining trio struggled with an exhausting workload.

Left-arm seamer Sohail Tanvir had Dinesh Karthik caught in the slips from his first ball, but ended with 1-118 from 24 overs, resorting to innocuous spin late in the day.

Danish Kaneria had to bowl 30 overs, and was rewarded with the only other two wickets to fall, but one of those came courtesy of a poor decision by umpire Billy Doctrove.

Dravid, looking totally troubled, was given out caught behind off Kaneria, though no edge was detectable on any replays.

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Kaneria's second strike, in which Tendulkar was bowled by a googly as he looked to drive through the covers, was a mini-triumph for Pakistan, which briefly silenced a typically noisy Calcutta crowd.

But one wicket in each session was not a good enough return for Pakistan, who started the second Test of three 1-0 down.

Jaffer hit Tanvir for four fours in an over before lunch, and continued to mete out the punishment in the middle session.

There were no nervous nineties for him.

He went to 89 with a fine straight drive off Kaneria, to 95 with a cover-drive off Tanvir and 99 with a clip off the same bowler to the square-leg fence.

His century followed with an off-side boundary off Kaneria, and there were two more sweet strikes for four - with drives hit against the spin - in the same over.

Kamran Akmal dropped Tendulkar on 28 off Mohammad Sami (0-56) soon after tea.

Pakistan paid for that error as India's number four hit 12 effortless boundaries in his 109-ball innings and it was a surprise when he was finally out.

Jaffer continued to play stylishly up until stumps, with Sourav Ganguly (17 not out) already adapting confidently to the easy-paced wicket.

The Mumbai right-hander said afterwards: "All hundreds are special. I have got only a few, so I'll count all of them as special.

"Scoring 192 in a day is something I haven't done before. I'll try to score a double-hundred and then as many as I can

"I don't think I have batted so fluently so far in my Test career. It was my most fluent innings.

"I got a few starts in England [last summer] and did not convert them into hundreds. So, I tried to be focused once I was past 60."