22 years ago, Laxman and Dravid together broke the pride of Kangaroos, created history with the bat in Eden Gardens
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On This Day, Laxman Historic Inning: March 14 is a big and historic day for Indian cricket history. Former Indian cricketer on this day VVS Laxman and current Indian head coach Rahul Dravid Broke Australia’s pride at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens. Both had broken this pride of kangaroos by playing record breaking partnership. The special thing is that after this innings, Laxman came to be known as ‘Very Very Special’ and Dravid as ‘The Wall’.
In 2001 both had broken the pride of kangaroos
The second match of the Test series was going on in Kolkata. Nothing was going right for India in this match. After losing the first match of this series in Mumbai, the team had to follow on at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. India’s score was 254/4 on the third day of this test match. Team India was 20 runs behind Australia. Everyone felt that the defeat of Team India is certain. At that time Laxman 109 and Dravid were present at the crease after scoring 7 runs off 155 balls.
#OnThisDay in 2001
A stupendous show ft. @VVSLaxman281 & Rahul Dravid as #TeamIndia made a sensational comeback against Australia at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata pic.twitter.com/YLAOp0yCxC
— BCCI (@BCCI) Mar 14, 2023
One of the greatest ever knocks in the history of Test cricket played on this day 22 years ago – VVS Laxman smashed 281 against Australia at the Eden Gardens after following on.pic.twitter.com/6IrOGFQZZs
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) Mar 14, 2023
Laxman and Dravid did wonders on the fourth day
Fourth day of the test It was such a day of this test when Laxman and Dravid created history. The special thing about India batting for the whole day on the fourth day was that not a single wicket of India fell on this day. Laxman remained unbeaten on 275 and Dravid scored 155 runs from India. At the same time, on the fifth day of the match, Laxman got out after playing an inning of 281 runs. And Dravid got out after scoring 180 runs. Due to the brilliant innings of both, India declared its follow-on innings at 657-7 runs.
Harbhajan Singh’s magic in bowling
After the batting, now it was the turn of the bowlers. Harbhajan Singh bowled brilliantly in this match, he showed the path of pavilion to 5 kangaroo batsmen in Australia’s second innings. The most spectacular moment of the match was when Harbhajan Singh showed the way to the pavilion by dismissing Australia’s last batsman Glenn McGrath. The Australian team was all out for just 212 runs in 68.3 overs. India won this historic match by 171 runs. This match of cricket is still considered to be the most exciting test match. At the same time, the innings of 281 runs played by Laxman is considered to be the most special and spectacular innings in the history of cricket.
Test matches won after follow on
Sydney, 1894: England won by 10 runs
Leeds, 1981: England won by 18 runs
Kolkata, 2001: India won by 171 runs
Wellington, 2023: New Zealand won by 1 run
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