Hyderabad: Describing his epic knock of 175 against Australia as one of his best innings, Sachin Tendulkar said his effort would have been even more satisfying if it could have guided the team to victory in the pulsating fifth one-dayer.

Tendulkar's 45th one-day century, a rollicking 141-ball knock, almost pulled off a great win for India yesterday but the lower-order batsmen could not score the required 19 runs from 17 balls.

"We started off very well, there was a good partnership between Suresh (Raina) and me at one point of time. But we lost few crucial wickets and also the game itself. So it's disappointing at the end of the day," Tendulkar said after the match which India lost by just three runs here yesterday.

On being asked if he would rate this century as one of his best knocks, he said, "Ya, sort of.

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