{"id":2250,"date":"2016-06-27T20:08:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T14:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/cricket-eden-gardens-test-match-innings\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T19:58:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:28:28","slug":"cricket-eden-gardens-test-match-innings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=2250","title":{"rendered":"Miracle at Eden: The Innings that Healed Indian Cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">W<\/span>here were you in the March of 2001?\n\n<\/p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you remember falling out of love with cricket, distrusting your heroes, wondering what you could trust if you couldn&#8217;t trust the gentleman\u2019s game? If you listened real close, you could hear the game of cricket shedding tears.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In April 2000, the Delhi police tapped the phones of a few notorious gangsters. What they didn&#8217;t expect to hear was the voice of South African captain <\/span><a href=\"mailto:karima.sanela@gmail.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hansie Cronje<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. When the house of cards came tumbling down, it also took with it Mohammad Azharuddin, the nonchalant Indian skipper who could bring you down to your knees just by flicking his wrists and playing the most silken cricketing strokes. Yes, he left his wife for a B-grade starlet, all under the public glare, but nobody thought he could have cheated the sport that gave him everything!<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As hard as it was to digest, the answer was yes. A national-pastime-turned-national-passion had turned into national shame. We turned away from cricket, wondering when we could ever trust the game again. If it took one Hyderabadi in Azharuddin to hurt cricket, it took another Hyderabadi in Very Very Special Laxman to heal it.<\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">In the hot summer, silent classrooms were punctuated by the sound of papers and the humdrum sound of fans whirring<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In March 2001, I was giving my <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/desi-parents-trap-mehnat\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">board exams<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The invincible Aussies, led by Steve Waugh, docked themselves in India, resolving to conquer the final frontier. It was a battle between the present and the future. If only I had known at that time the transient nature of trigonometry, biology, and the periodic table in my life, and the ephemeral joy and comfort that cricket would provide, life would have been infinitely simpler.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first Test match in Mumbai was done and dusted in three days. There were whimpers of a fight from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/sachin-tendulkar-sachin-a-billion-dreams-india-cricket-2\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sachin Tendulkar<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Laxman but the steamrolling was merciless. In the hot summer, silent classrooms were punctuated by the sound of papers and the humdrum sound of fans whirring. The second Test was in Eden Gardens; it seemed like a match lost on Day 3 itself. The Indian side collapsed and were 274 runs behind. Steve Waugh enforced a follow-on, expecting a historic series win to an innings away.<\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32316\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1521197544-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"611\" height=\"407\" \/>\n\nOn Day 4, Laxman surpassed Sunil Gavaskar&#8217;s record and became the highest scorer in Test cricket.\n\nImage Credits: Getty Images\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We were all ready for the last rites. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back home, I would run to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/grub\/india-kerala-beef-food-school-canteen-tiffin\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">school canteen<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that had a 14-inch television to catch bits and pieces of the action. Every time I went, I expected the end to be nearer. Instead, VVS Laxman and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/sports\/rahul-dravid-the-wall-indian-cricket\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rahul Dravid<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> over the course of a day, turned a Test match and self-belief over its head. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can you hear the Kolkata crowd roaring? <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can you hear Tony Grieg&#8217;s over-excited <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/cricket-commentary-india-australia-ranchi-test-ravi-shastri-virat-kohli\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">commentary<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">? <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can you see VVS Laxman coming down the track on the leg side and smash Shane Warne on the offside? The audacity of it all!<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can you see VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid? They, who batted till their backs had to be put back in place by a physio. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who batted and returned to a dressing room that had been installed with drips.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who batted with strips of towel dipped in ice water to keep them from collapsing out of fatigue.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Run by run, sweat by sweat, the deficit was culled. A day that began as the beginning of the end, ended as a new beginning. <\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32317\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1521197515.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"407\" \/>\n\nIn the span of five days, a nation\u2019s faith in cricket was restored and the belief in our players regained.\n\nImage Credits: Getty Images\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Day 4, Laxman surpassed Sunil Gavaskar&#8217;s record and became the highest scorer in Test cricket. Rahul Dravid, who always put team above himself and came into the Test match on the back of patchy form, dug into his seemingly endless reserves and struck a resolute 180, a masterpiece that was overshadowed by Laxman&#8217;s Haley\u2019s-Comet-like innings. From a deficit of 274, Australia were set a target of 384. Victory was beyond their reach.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Given the calibre of the Australian batting line-up \u2013 Michael Slater, the Waugh brothers, Adam Gilchrist, Ricky Ponting, and Matthew Hayden \u2013 a draw was on the cards. Unexpectedly, Harbhajan Singh dismissed Waugh and Ponting in quick succession. Out of nowhere, Indian cricket&#8217;s folk hero, Tendulkar, emerged from the shadows. He accounted for the important scalps of Gilchrist, Hayden, and Warne. Harbhajan returned for a final bow and took the final wicket of Glenn Mcgrath. From the vice-grip of defeat, India came back from the dead to secure one of the greatest Test victories of all time. The Eden Gardens exploded. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Eden Gardens is the place of Indian cricket&#8217;s greatest dreams and nightmares. In 1996, the crowd ranted and raged, and set fire to the seats as the Indian side crashed and burned against Sri Lanka in the semi-finals of the World Cup. Five years later, they were exploding. This time it was a joyous outpouring of emotion. In the span of five days, a nation\u2019s faith in cricket was restored and the belief in our players regained. It isn\u2019t for nothing that Kolkata 2001 is rated among the greatest Test matches ever played, with Laxman\u2019s masterpiece innings its crown jewel. Dravid&#8217;s 180, Harbhajan&#8217;s 13-wicket melee, and Tendulkar&#8217;s belated outburst, all seemed to find each other and come together for a magnum opus. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What if India had lost in Kolkata? Would Sourav Ganguly have remained captain for long? Would they have gone onto win at Chennai and seal the series? <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The victory heralded a new beginning for Indian cricket, built on the back of self-belief, determination, and honour that had gone missing after the match-fixing scandal. It was built on the backs of Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/sports\/anil-kumble-virat-kohli-dhoni-indian-cricket-team-coach\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anil Kumble<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Javagal Srinath, Sachin Tendulkar, and later, Virender Sehwag, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh, and Yuvraj Singh. They secured historic victories, from Rawalpindi to Adelaide to Johannesburg, creating a new legion of fans and believers. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, we&#8217;re on top of the world; the richest board, multi-million dollar contracts, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/sports\/ipl-mumbai-wankhede-stadium-cricket-india\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IPL<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The dark days of the match-fixing scandal seem to be light years away. Current captain <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/satire\/virat-kohli-anti-national\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Virat Kohli<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has taken Dada\u2019s aggression, which was the catalyst of change back in 2001, to the next level. In fact, the team seems stronger in every department today, be it batting, bowling, or fielding. We have record holders like <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/sports\/rohit-sharma-hitman-india-sri-lanka-lazy-elegance\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rohit Sharma<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> opening the innings and wily veterans like Ashwin anchoring our bowling attack. On paper, one would be tempted to bet on today\u2019s incarnation of Team India over the 2001 squad. That would be making the same mistake Steve Waugh\u2019s Aussie side made back then, because in 2001, Team India had a secret weapon.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VVS Laxman is the son of doctor parents. He had given himself a few years to make it big in cricket. If he didn&#8217;t, he had decided to go back to studying to be a doctor and follow in his parents\u2019 footsteps. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a sense, he fulfilled his dream. He didn&#8217;t do it with a scalpel. He did it with a bat.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He played the innings that healed Indian cricket.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From March 11 to March 15, 2001, the greatest Test match ever to be played took place at Eden Gardens, where India beat Australia. 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