My XI - Ian Chappell: VVS Laxman 281 v Australia, Kolkata - 'Best playing of spin bowling I've seen' 

VVS should be the brand ambassador for Rolex. Timing is so precise

3:07 that's not bad bowling *THAT'S DAMN GOOD BATTING* ❤❤❤❤❤

02:55 - 03:05 - Chapell at his best. He's got a deep understanding of the game and can communicate very well. What an awesome story teller he's.

I like Ian Chappell's opinions. They say that an opinion is only as good as the person who gives it. Ian was a great cricketer. Always bold and forthright. I like Dravid, Seawag, Tendulkar and Azadrudin but most of all VVS Laxman. He was so different!

VVS Laxman was the most underrated batsman in the era of Tendulkar, Dravid and Ganguly.He never let anyone rule him.

With 'the wall' Dravid's help he pulled off the impossible. the Australian's bowled well at them and were at the peak of their powers. I remember watching Laxman at one end destroying the Aussie attack at the SCG while the rest fell at regular intervals to McGrath etc at the other. Got 150 odd I think out of not much more.

There was unforgettable contribution from Harbhajan too

dravid and laxman were complementary to each other..... one had a solid defence and the other one had a great stroke play game

After that match Australia never forced follow on against india.

This is the greatest innings of all time in Test Cricket !!!

Wisden rated this as the greatest ever century by an Indian. It is sublime!

temperamentally laxman is the greatest indian test batsman ever

2001 kolkata test - one of the turning point of indian cricket history.

Absolutely brilliant. I started watchin cricket when i was very little and this was one of my first and best innings so far. Also Ian Chappel has been one of the true analysts of the game.

That a such a fantastic inning, that Dravid hitting 180 didn't even get mentioned in the conversation!!

These types of innings we watched very rarely..something magical was happening that whole day when laxman n dravid was on d crease..absolutely marvelous..!!

The smart move was made by captain Sourav Ganguly and he also gave ball to Sachin who picked 3 wickets back to back quickly. The best captain world as ever seen. The captain who changed world cricket. And Ganguly also is the best six hitter especially to spinners. His coming down the track and lofting over the bowler to six is the best six hitting shot I have ever seen.

Reason why VVS was succesful against aussies were their fast bowlers always bowl full length and bouncers. Laxman likes that length and he is also a good puller. Laxman also plays spin very well. He's a complete player.

VVS Laxman was one of major reasons why India won that iconic series in 2001 along with Harbhajan Singh. They were almost gone in the 2nd test and then he played that monumental innings. Sachin Tendulkar may have been the best batsman in the Indian lineup and getting him out was important for the psychological impact, but he wasn't always the most dangerous. VVS Laxman was at times more dangerous than Sachin.

The kolkata test match was a remarkable victory for Indian team Laxman very very special laxman Australians 🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘 Totally on the back foot It will be never happens again

So True !!! I wished he deserved to score triple century.., One of the best player and underrated one as well. All time great partnership between classy VVS Laxman and perfect technic master Rahul Dravid !!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Never Say die. Fought bravely. Very very special Laxman, and Rock solid Wall Dravid

This match still gives Goose Bumps...!!!

The greatest innings of all time

That's a turning test match for Indian cricket thanku lakshman

Most underated Indian batsmen.without doubt he is a magnificent test batsman with style and class to be frank at present moment India lacks quality test players .only few batsmen in the world are comfortable to confront Aussie attack that is Lara , Laxman and the golden period of Windies batsman sir Vivian Richards

My fav Test XI: Virender Sehwag Mathew Hayden Ricky Ponting(C) Sachin Tendulkar Brain C Lara Kumar Sangakara(Wk) Andrew Flintoff Shane Warne Brett Lee Dale Steyn Glenn Macgrath Few names like Jacque Kallis, Shawn Pollock, Adam Grilchrist, Rahul Dravid,Wasim Akram, M Muurlidharan are hard to be left out but I have to make a team with variation like Brett lee 150 k/h so..................

I would just like to add one thing, 3 paces down, not just for on drive, but also cover drive.. he played one immediately after completing his double hundred.

Only after 1-2 years this duo repeated same performance in Australia and won the impossible test match.

I'm surprised India is not a lot better than they are with over a billion people and cricket being the number one game i.e the top 6 of the quality of Sewag, Laxman, Kohli, Dravid, Tendulkar in all eras..

One of the greatest innings ever!! One of the greatest test matches ever!!

It's the Sourav Ganguly who made this decision to move up Laxman at number 3. Dada Rocks!! :-)

A great test match and he was a versatile flamboyant stroke player,could play from postion 1 to 6 with ease...

watching it back, its a sublime innings. VVS is a living legend

Laxman was sensational but Dravid's 180 was also incredible but once again his efforts are not noticed. Dravid, Dravid, Dravid😭

10 years from interview.....enjoyed a good batting against not bad bowling....it just happens ... thats magic......

17 yo me sitting at home watching with my Dad: Australia will bat again with no pressure on them get some quick runs and put the game and the series totally out of reach from the Indians, give their bowlers a rest from the heat and bat while the pitch is at it's best and have Warne bowling on the 5th day to win the game and the series for Australia. Steve Waugh: No I'll enforce the follow on because reasons..... I had to watch this match in so much pain because of Laxman, Steve Waugh was arrogant and totally overrated as a captain and Australia deserved to lose. Laxman well done from an Australia I wish I could have appreciated your innings at the time.

It's epic in test cricket history.. for his effort and match winning and saving ability he must be awarded by ICC hall of fame..

VVS some how gave his best against Australia. Australians hold him high esteem.

So greatly told what an insight of cricket

This game changed the course of Test cricket in India. There was India before this match and there is India after this match.

Yes best ever batting that's the reason I've watched it 100 times

A great player talking about a one of the all time great innings, up with Lara in 99.

That shot, flick shot to leg-spin.

My favourite commentator duo is Ian Chappell and Bill Lawry

Iconic innings probably defines true character of us Indians never let go keep faith and strive hard

It was THE test match of decade.

This man said wisely..👍😉😎

This should be the number one innings

Languid and Imperious VVS Laxman

Obviously dada made the move, who else?

Ian Chappell’s obsession with number 3 is unreal

Ind was almost dead and buried ,but VVs had other ideas, the rest is history. U need a combo of talent and mental toughness to play like this

Laxman almost played from day 2 to day 5 How much he runned and got tired Really unimaginable Hatsoff to vvs Magical timer of cricket ball in cricket history

Laxman - the king of counter attack, and that too against that Aussie team.

Mesmerizing innings great innings

VVS Laxman sir 🙏🙏

I do remember Virendra Sehwag's 201* not out at Galle Ajanta Mendis getting decoded by Indians😍

Tenure (90 to 2006) my best Test xi are as follows : 1. Virendra Shewag 2. Matthew Hayden 3. Jaques Kallis 4 .Brian Lara 5. Sachin Tendulkar 6. Andrew Flintoff 7. Alec Stewart 8. Muttiah Muralidharan 9. Wasim Akram 10. Glenn McGrath 11. Allan Donald .

Best test innings of all time with 274 to follow on tremendous effort lacchi bhai

Even the 3rd test in Chennai was heart in mouth

I don't know about the factors to judge an innings as best or flawless or impeccable. Maybe Laxman innings will not fall under any of the top ten under each of these. But given the circumstances of the series, match and how it truly changes Indian test cricket over the 20 years I will definitely judge this among the greatest innings ever played along with greatest supporting act by Dravid This will be definitely be remembered and talked about by Indian fans and others over years and years to come

Vvs is so underrated

It was a no-brainer that laxman should bat no. 3 in second innings. It was quite evident in that innings of 59. Even an average cricket fan would know.

V V S against Australia (best bowling attack) is great

I have high regards for VVS

what music plays at the end? its great!

I never understood why Laxman didn't seem to get the credit he deserved. Wonderful player.

It is

What an innings

VVS stands for “Very Very Special”

I lived in Perth, WA back then. A guy in a local pub said the time change, for the radio coverage, must be halfway between Western Australia and England. I said only 2.5hrs backward. Australia must be part of Asia!. My travel experience has always been such although I've always liked a beer (x100) in Dover, London (near the British Museum), Cambridge + Manchester (lesbians kissing in the audience at a comedy show🍺🥃!!). Cheers from Melbourne 👍

3,32,000th view...I'm lucky

VVS Laxman should have always played at number 3 throughout his career.

Ganguly made that move to promote to no.1

Mr ian chapal.. Sourav ganguli could only make that move

u noticed???? over 420 overs were bowled in that match...really????

Indus won the test after getting 6 lbw decisions when Aussies batted.

India then went on to win the third test and the series.. can still remember the exhilaration i felt then !!

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Watched it 10 times, tried to hit the like button 10 times but alas! RU-vid only allows 1 like per video :P

Lscman was a brilliant player but the games people play didn't actually get the very best out of him. He had much more to show but that was not to be. One must read Msnnjarekars articles about the dirty games that go on behind the scene and in the dressing room. All that jumping and hugging is a facade and not genuine ad projected.

Which song is played at the end ??

it was the team politics which made laxman to bat at no.6 instead of 3 or 4 which made him less successful than dravid and sachin

Ian is a bloody damn good commentator…. No one like him

Hey playing spin is very easy for u chappal of australia

He is better test player campre then drived and sachin beacause he profom better underpresure

The art of spin bowling, and with it the technique to play good spin bowling, is dying in India. Around the time of this tour, batsmen like Sidhu could tear apart Warne and others. However, since Kumble there has been no world class spinner in India. And this also mean Indian batsmen do not receive the sufficient training to tackle good spin. We saw that in ICC World Cup 2019, a team like Afghanistan exposed Indian batsmen. A far cry from the days of VVS, Sachin, Dravid, and Sourav.

All south indian cricketers will only get praise from opposition teams and people who respect talent and respect the game. The indian management or ecosystem never made them captains.. never made them superstars.. undue adulation and stardom was given to people from north who can capture the north media and familiarity in that part of that world.. Indian cricket is watched all across india why cant they promote players from south.. everyone will know them... even though there were many good looking cricketers from south they were overlooked for average looking dhoni and kohli.. people like Murali vijay and dinesh karthik are far more good looking than them.. Examples VVS Laxman one of the best test batsman you can get.. he should have been batting up the order scoring 10k plus runs.. no respect no stardom.. R ashwin 500 test wickets absolute match winner 25 man of series awards 5 test 100s.. no respect gets dropped overseas just after one match.. Anil kumble GOAT spinner leader.. no respect from north or indian think tank.. Srinath no stardom.. 300 plus odi wickets bowled at crazy speeds..carried indian attack for so long.. so many can be quoted..

No 4 easy

Well 3rd stat need to be updated

I always fuking wonder why cricket bat frm ss has 281 written on them. Fuking it's a tribute I guess.

There was visionary captain named Sourav Ganguly and coach named John wright.they made vvs bat at 3....my favourites as captain and coach...

that is a good innings

I rate it as the greatest innings in the history of Test cricket

VVS scored 340 runs in that one match alone. Dravid scored 205. Together they contributed 545 runs. VVS and Dravid were highest scorer in first inning also for India. India scored 171 runs in the first inning, this was the exact runs by which India won that test match. Deficit of 274 runs in first inning and then to go on to win convincingly by 171 runs is just Amazing to say the least.

Impact of VVS Epic 281= # World cricket has witnessed serious reduction in the number of follow-ons being imposed # Every team then believed Australia can be defeated ( initially, before 2001,it seemed almost nxt to impossible)

That was the greatest test match of all time!

vvs' 1st Inning 59 was the catalyst to the way India went on to win that game, he just set an example and tempo of the game with that one. Also Dravid's solid play is another key ingredients.

Vvs laxman, Mohammad azharuddin, Gautam Gambhir, navjot Sidhu, r brilliant players of spin bowling