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

3. Second Test, Border-Gavaskar Trophy (Adelaide 2003)

Dravid’s Test

This was a famous victory, and I am sure most of the readers remember it. You can see this Test match any number of times over, and still it will be as good as the first time. Ganguly was the winning captain, but it won’t be wrong to say that Dravid owned the match, and no wonder he was the Man of the match.

That after Ricky Ponting got 242 in the 1st innings and Australia posted 556 batting first. The Indian reply started off sluggishly, with 4 wickets down for just 85 when Dravid and Laxman took the crease. What followed was a historic partnership, and when Laxman got out after scoring 148, the score was already 388.

Dravid still hung in there, and was the last to get out, but only after the Indian total had amounted to 523. This happened before lunch on Day 4 and the match was clearly headed for a draw.

But the Indians were more inspired than to be content with a draw. Agarkar, in particular, was bowling some good deliveries, and he sent back Langer and Ponting before lunch. Tendulkar, who had disappointed with the bat, did some real damage with the ball with wickets of Damien Martyn and Steve Waugh after lunch, both of them giving their catches to Dravid.

The collapse of the tail happened quick it started when Gilchrist departed at the total of 183 and finished when MacGill fell at 196, Agarkar returning to clean the tail and ending the innings with figures of 6/41.

India started their chase before the end of the day itself. Day 5 saw both openers Aakash Chopra and Sehwag departing early, and once again Dravid was the standout in the Indian batting. He arrived at 79/2 and saw India home by hitting the winning runs some 140 runs later. India had won the game by 4 wickets, crafting one of their most famous and hard-earned overseas wins.