India's 6 greatest away victories in Test cricket since 2000

4. Third Test, India in England (Leeds, 2002)

Leeds captured

This win came under the captaincy of Sourav Ganguly. Dravid was Man of the match. Sachin was the top scorer with 193 for the one time that India batted. Kumble finished with 7 wickets in the match. With so many performances from India’s greats, it was no wonder that they won by an innings and 46 runs. Sanjay Bangar impressed with his all-round performance, scoring 68 with the bat and getting 2 wickets in the 3rd and final innings of the match.

India declared after posting a first innings total of 628 with over 2 days of batting and tiring out the English fielders. Sachin, Sourav and Dravid all got magnificent hundreds, and there were three gigantic partnerships- 170 for the 2nd wicket, and around 150 for the 3rd and the 4th wicket each.

The English pacers – Hoggard, Flintoff, Caddick and Tudor or even spinner Ashley Giles-nobody was effective in stopping the Indian batting that took the game away from them. They now had the daunting task of batting for the three days left in the Test match.

They were 9 down on the same day itself following the collapse triggered by Michael Vaughan’s wicket who played well for his 61 and got out to Agarkar to give him his first fruit of the match. England then lost 5 wickets in a span of 55 runs, and it was Alec Stewart whose heroics enabled them to cross 200.

He remained unbeaten on 78. Following on, England needed to make 355 to make India bat again. Nasser Hussain played a captain’s knock of 110, while Alec Stewart who once again played well, gave him company in an 117-run stand that made the game enter the 5th day.

But that wasn’t enough to prevent an innings defeat, as Kumble struck gold on the last day as he dismissed both of them in consecutive overs. The game ended when he got Caddick to give a catch to skipper Ganguly, thus giving a perfect end to the game that India won in style.