Top 5 Test knocks by Indian batsmen against England since 2006

#4 Rahul Dravid - 146* of 266 balls, London (2011)

Dravid was India’s go-to man when the chips were down

India was tottering at a score-line of 3-0 in their tour of England in 2011. England were all over India and looked to achieve a clean-sweep. Courtesy Ian Bell’s 235 and Kevin Pietersen’s 175, England haemorrhaged 591 runs in the first innings.

After the run fest, India had all the reasons to go into their shell. Nonetheless, Rahul Dravid wasn’t prepared to hand it over to England. He opened the batting for India and carried his bat through for a score of 146 with 20 boundaries.

With wickets falling at the rate of knots, Dravid was at his usual calm and composed self as he had answers to all the deliveries hurled at him by the Englishmen. ‘The Wall’ of Indian cricket sneaked India past the follow-on mark along with Amit Mishra’s resolute 43 runs of 77 balls. It’s indeed difficult to break through the wall and England got a fair taste of him during that knock.