The Second Test in the Australian cricket team's tour of India in early 2001 was a Test match played over five days at Eden Gardens in Kolkata from 11–15 March, 2001. India won the match by 171 runs after being forced to follow-on, only the third time this has happened since Test cricket started in 1877.[1]
The Australian team, rated as the best in the world, had won 16 Tests in a row, a Test cricket record and won the previous Test at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai by 10 wickets.[2]
The match is famous for VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid's batting performance, Harbhajan Singh's hattrick and last day wicket-taking and Sachin Tendulkar's wicket-taking spell on the final day. Also of note were Australia's first innings performances, particularly that of Matthew Hayden. The Test is most noted for its 4th day. After India trailed by more than 250 runs in the first innings, Dravid and Laxman batted the entirety of day four to build up a lead of 384. In the process, Laxman also posted what was, at that time, the highest individual score by an Indian (later to be surpassed by Virender Sehwag's two triple tons). It is widely considered to be one of the greatest test matches in cricket history[3]
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| Match referee | Cammie Smith |
| Field umpires | S. K. Bansal Peter Willey |
| Third umpire | Sameer Bandekar |
| Toss | Australia elected to bat first |
| Result | India India won by 171 runs |
| Series impact | Series 1-1 |
| Man of the Match | VVS Laxman |
| Australia | First Innings | Second Innings (target 384) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batsman | Method of dismissal | Runs | Method of dismissal | Runs |
| M. J. Slater | c Mongia b Khan | 42(99) | c Ganguly b Harbhajan Singh | 43(79) |
| M. L. Hayden | c sub H. K. Badani b Khan | 97(157) | lbw b Tendulkar | 67(118) |
| J. L. Langer | c Mongia b Harbhajan Singh | 58(91) | c Ramesh b Harbhajan Singh | 28(21) |
| M. E. Waugh | c Mongia b Harbhajan Singh | 22(31) | lbw b Raju | 0(10) |
| * S. R. Waugh | lbw b Harbhajan Singh | 110(203) | c sub H. K. Badani b Harbhajan Singh | 24(58) |
| R. T. Ponting | lbw b Harbhajan Singh | 6(12) | c Das b Harbhajan Singh | 0(4) |
| + A. C. Gilchrist | lbw b Harbhajan Singh | 0(1) | lbw b Tendulkar | 0(1) |
| S. K. Warne | c Ramesh b Harbhajan Singh | 0(1) | lbw b Tendulkar | 0(7) |
| M. S. Kasprowicz | lbw b Ganguly | 7(28) | not out | 13(56) |
| J. N. Gillespie | c Ramesh b Harbhajan Singh | 46(147) | c Das b Harbhajan Singh | 6(38) |
| G. D. McGrath | not out | 21(28) | lbw b Harbhajan Singh | 12(27) |
| Extras | 36 | 19 | ||
| Total | (131.5 overs) | 445 | (68.3 overs) | 212 |
| India | First Innings | Second Innings | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | |
| Z. Khan | 28.4 | 6 | 89 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 30 | 0 | |
| B. K. V. Prasad | 30 | 5 | 95 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 0 | |
| S. C. Ganguly | 13.2 | 3 | 44 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| S. L. V. Raju | 20 | 2 | 58 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 58 | 1 | |
| Harbhajan Singh | 37.5 | 7 | 123 | 7 | 30.3 | 8 | 73 | 6 | |
| S. R. Tendulkar | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 31 | 3 | |
| India | First Innings | Second Innings (following on) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batsman | Method of dismissal | Runs | Method of dismissal | Runs |
| S. S. Das | c Gilchrist b McGrath | 20(48) | hit wicket b Gillespie | 39(99) |
| S. Ramesh | c Ponting b Gillespie | 0(3) | c M.Waugh b Warne | 30(43) |
| R. Dravid | b Warne | 25(82) | run out | 180(353) |
| S. R. Tendulkar | lbw b McGrath | 10(18) | c Gilchrist b Gillespie | 10(23) |
| * S. C. Ganguly | c S. Waugh b Kasprowicz | 23(51) | c Gilchrist b McGrath | 48(81) |
| V. V. S. Laxman | c Hayden b Warne | 59(83) | c Ponting b McGrath | 281(452) |
| + N. R. Mongia | c Gilchrist b Kasprowicz | 2(4) | b McGrath | 4(10) |
| Harbhajan Singh | c Ponting b Gillespie | 4(15) | not out | 8(6) |
| Z. Khan | b McGrath | 3(19) | not out | 23(15) |
| S. L. V. Raju | lbw b McGrath | 4(15) | – | – |
| B. K. V. Prasad | not out | 7(23) | – | – |
| Extras | 14 | 34 | ||
| Total | (58.1 overs) | 171 | (7 wickets declared; 178 overs) | 657 |
| Australia | First Innings | Second Innings | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | |
| G. D. McGrath | 14 | 8 | 18 | 4 | 39 | 12 | 103 | 3 | |
| J. N. Gillespie | 11 | 0 | 47 | 2 | 31 | 6 | 115 | 2 | |
| M. S. Kasprowicz | 13 | 2 | 39 | 2 | 35 | 6 | 139 | 0 | |
| S. K. Warne | 20.1 | 3 | 65 | 2 | 34 | 3 | 152 | 1 | |
| M. E. Waugh | – | – | – | – | 18 | 1 | 58 | 0 | |
| R. T. Ponting | – | – | – | – | 12 | 1 | 41 | 0 | |
| M. L. Hayden | – | – | – | – | 6 | 0 | 24 | 0 | |
| M. J. Slater | – | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | |
| J. L. Langer | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |