This series was about much more than cricket. It was Pakistan's first Test series with India for nine years, and the first on Indian soil since 1986-87. Three previous attempts to organise a Pakistani tour of India in the 1990s had been aborted because of threats of disruption by right-wing Hindu fundamentalists. In 1998, both countries had tested nuclear weapons, adding a new dimension to their traditional tension. Though there were only two Tests (a third at Calcutta, won by Pakistan, was regarded as part of the separate Asian Test Championship), it was probably the most exciting of the 11 series between the two. Pakistan won a 12-run victory at Chennai, only for India to strike back with a massive win at Delhi. The star players were the spinners, Saqlain Mushtaq of Pakistan and Anil Kumble of India: Kumble provided the sensational conclusion to the series by taking all ten wickets in the final innings, only the second man in Test cricket to take a perfect ten; he devastated Pakistan's batting with his lift and bounce, taking his ten wickets for 47. His overall analysis was 10 for 74. Shortly before the series, activists dug up the Test pitch in Delhi, forcing the Indian board to move the first Test to Chennai. Shortly afterwards, the board's offices at Mumbai were ransacked and officials manhandled. Commandos and plain-clothes officers shadowed the Pakistani team everywhere. The board even engaged snake charmers, after rumours that extremists might release snakes in the crowds or on to the pitch. But the two Tests went off without any trouble: a victory for cricket and diplomacy (when crowd trouble came later, at Calcutta, it was of a less political nature). The Chennai Test attracted an estimated 50,000 spectators a day, and the Delhi Test nearly 40,000 a day.