Top 5 Indian victories over Australia in the 21st century

#1 India vs Australia, Kolkata 2001

The historic test of Kolkata

Considered as one of the greatest Tests ever, this match changed Indian cricket forever.

Having gone 0-1 down after the Mumbai Test, India were down and out and hoping for a miracle to beat Steve Waugh’s unbeatable Australian side that was on a 16 match winning streak.

And what happened in that match in Kolkata was nothing less than a miracle.

Following-on in the second innings, India were on the verge of losing the second Test too, which would mean a series defeat for them. But VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid wrote the script of one of the greatest comebacks in the history of Test cricket.

Trailing by 274 runs in the second innings, India had to hang on for another two and a half days to make sure they didn't lose the match. Being 4 down for 232, the hosts trailed by another 42 runs when Dravid came in to bat. And what happened next is history; the 376-run partnership between Laxman and Dravid is the stuff of folklore.

Laxman's innings was voted as the best Test innings of the last 50 years, and Dravid too played the one of best Test knocks of his career. India ended up winning that historic Test and later the series too, which marked India's rise to becoming superpowers in international cricket.