5 greatest Test innings by Rahul Dravid 

India's famous win in Adelaide in 2003 was mainly due to Rahul Dravid's efforts

#1. 233 vs Australia, Adelaide, 2003

At Eden Gardens in 2001, it was VVS Laxman who played the leading role in that legendary partnership that turned India’s fortunes. In this match, the roles got reversed. Dravid took the lead and Laxman played the perfect supporting actor as the two batsmen again rescued India from a tricky situation, again versus Australia.

The Indian team had conceded a score of 556 in the first innings of the match. They were looking in doldrums at 85/4. What came then was another unforgettable partnership of 303 runs which stunned Aussies and frustrated their ambitions a second time.

Dravid’s 233 was just sublime. The fact that he got to a hundred by hooking the ball for a six shows that he wasn’t just playing in his usual defensive style but expanding his range of strokes too in order to counter attack the Aussies.

Dravid was the last man out and, by then, he had taken his team to just 33 runs short of Australia’s first-innings total – something that has seemed impossible at the time India lost its fourth wicket. Yes, Australia didn't have their first choice bowlers but still, they were a mighty, all-conquering team and these two knew how to deal with the big names.

It was simply a sublime innings and the fact that India eventually won the match, Dravid scoring 72 not out in the second dig also, shows what a knock it was.