Some of India's landmark Test wins

First win in England

Bhagwat Chandrasekhar took 6/38 and India, trailing in the first innings, made history by winning their first Test in England. Under Ajit Wadekar’s captaincy, India won the three-match series 1-0, another first. “Chandra missed the 1971 tour f the West Indies but the electors showed rare wisdom and insight n selecting him for e tour of gland later that ar,” wrote Sunil avaskar in Idols.”

A historic chase

The biggest chase ever in Test cricket at the time came at the back of India losing the first Test in less than three days. Clive Lloyd thought it would be good to have another go at India. But with centuries from Sunil Gavaskar (102) and Gundappa Viswanath (112), nd Mohinder Amarnath’s 85, India verhauled the target of 403. “What we achieved was are. The last time a ide chased 400-plus o win a Test was radman’s team in 948,” Viswanath has aid.

Laxman’s 281

Remains only the third time in history that a team lost after enforcing the follow-on; Australia were at the receiving end on all occasions. On the Ides of March, Harbhajan Singh (13/196) showed that Australia may have won 15 Tests on the bounce, but were still susceptible to off-spin. Yet Australia dominated and when all seemed lost, VVS Laxman (281) and Rahul Dravid (180) batted the entire fourth day to cript one of cricket’s most markable turnarounds. This defeat iralled into another in the next Test Chennai, and with it, the series.

Dravid reigns

was a 33-run first nings lead that India nceded. In reply to ustralia's 556, India ade 523 riding a superb 33 by Rahul Dravid and a entury by VVS Laxman. om 85/4 they took the to 388. With the lower er, Dravid kept India in the game and as the last man out. Ajit Agarkar took 6/41 in the second innings. Needing 230 to win, India were shepherded to a win by Dravid. This was India's first win in Australia in 23 years and took forward the miracle of Eden in 2001.