INdia's great escapes

[vvvslaxman]

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/eng-vs-ind-old-trafford-test-2025-down-but-not-out-india-s-greatest-test-escapes-from-the-21st-century-1497179

 

Gqeberha 2001-02  Target 395

 

 

India batted for 96 overs to make 206/2 lol  Dravid 87(241 balls), Deep Das Gupta 63(281 balls)

 

Nottingham 2002  260 run deficit

 

India started with 11/2 (Jaffer/viru out)   India mader 424/8 in 115 overs  Dravid 115(244) Tendulkar 92(113)  Ganguly 99(159)

 

 

Kolkata 2002-03  139 run deficit

 

India was 49/3 87/4  

 

India made 471/8   Tendulkar  176  Laxman 154 not out

 

Lord's 2007   Target 380

 

India was 263/9 with 7 overs to go

 

Sreesanth  4 not out and MSD 76 not out helped with draw

 

 

Napier 2008-09  Follow on 314 behind

 

INdia 476/4 in 180 overs

 

Gambhir 137(436)  Laxman 124(212) not out Yuvi 54 not out (69)

 

Ahmedabad 2010-11

 

India was 65/6 with entire top order blown away with an effective lead of 93/6  India was starring down the barrel when Bhajji joins Laxman.

 

Laxman 91   Harbhajan 115  added 163 funs for 7th wicket

 

Sydney 2014-15 Target 349 runs

 

India was 217/7 when Bhuvi joined Rahane with 12 or 13 overs to go.

 

Bhuvi made 20 in 30 balls  Rhaane 38 not out India finished with 252/7

 

Sydney 2020-21   Well documented match. 

 

 

 

 

Laxman has featured in 3 matches.   Dravid two Tendulkar 2

 

[Lord]

Nottingham 1989

[Sandz]

This was one of the very best escapes, at 0/2 England would have started thinking about victory already thinking India would just roll over.

[vvvslaxman]

13 minutes ago, Sandz said:

This was one of the very best escapes, at 0/2 England would have started thinking about victory already thinking India would just roll over.

Undoubtedl. Because they were one wicket away from demolishing our lower order with pant missing. Immense concentration. 

[Number]

Brisbane 2024 when we were saved by KL, Jaddu, rain and that last wicket partnership between Bumrah and Akashdeep.

 

Gambhir Kohli and Rohit celebrating that six by Akashdeep to save follow on was epic.

[Sandz]

Harbhajan appears 5 times on that list toiling on dead pitches, so he is not entirely wrong when he says he played on most unhelpful pitches in his career.

[vvvslaxman]

1 minute ago, Sandz said:

Harbhajan appears 5 times on that list toiling on dead pitches, so he is not entirely wrong when he says he played on most unhelpful pitches in his career.

Nowadays players don't have the technique, temperament to see off match for draws. ABDV/Faf have done it a few times. Kohli failed many times in 4th innings.

[BacktoCricaddict]

3 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

Nowadays players don't have the technique, temperament to see off match for draws.

Wait, it just happened 2 days ago :-))))))

[vvvslaxman]

7 minutes ago, BacktoCricaddict said:

Wait, it just happened 2 days ago :-))))))

yea.. it is very rare. At the MCG when they used Travis Head , Australia had literally given up on the game. THen the door opened.

[Lord]

4 hours ago, Sandz said:

Harbhajan appears 5 times on that list toiling on dead pitches, so he is not entirely wrong when he says he played on most unhelpful pitches in his career.

 

Or he was just useless who couldn't bowl teams out on home pitches and we had to bat for draw