#Kolkatta2001 #Dravid #Laxman
On the 20th Anniversary of that test
11-15 March 2001
India vs Australia
Border gavaskar trophy
This was the greatest test match to be ever be played.
India had just been humiliatied at Wankhede by the invincible ausies.
And invincible indeed...
They had won 16 tests in a row at this point
India in the other hand..
Kumble the veteran spinner wasn't a part of the squad...
And the rest of the spinners on the team hadn't even played 10 tests...
Harbhajan who was suspended for indiscipline had ben recalled due to Dadas insistance....
Famously Declaring, im not leaving this room till I get harbajan on the team…
But even bhajjis his best record,
till this point was 3/30
Australia finished the the Mumbai test in 3 days.
India couldn't score more then 200 in a single innings
Dada was booed of the ground by an angry Mumbai crowd
&
Bishen Singh bedi declared this match as the demise of Indian cricket.
But when the plane carrying the indian team landed in kolkata for the second test
This is the story
Of what actually transpired after that...
The true story that happened behind the scenes
When nobody was watching
A story
Of the struggle
The blood and sweat
And the sheer dedication
That went into making a miracle happen.
27 сен 2024
