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A hat-trick, two feuds and a follow-on: how Eden Gardens changed India-Australia cricket-By Jon Pierik<\/span><\/h1>\n

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India celebrate the wicket of Jason Gillespie as they close in on victory at Eden Gardens<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:<\/span><\/strong>Theage<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

It was 2001 and the Australian cricket team was marching towards what Steve Waugh had described as \u201cthe final frontier\u201d \u2013 a Test series win in India for the first time in 31 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

They had stormed to a 10-wicket win in the first Test of the series in Mumbai, a record 16th straight victory for a team that was one of the greatest this country has produced.<\/span><\/p>\n

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After the first innings at Eden Gardens, Australia were so far ahead in the game, with a lead of 274 runs, that Waugh made what seemed like a simple decision, but one that coach John Buchanan now says he wishes they had taken a couple of minutes to discuss.<\/span><\/p>\n

He asked India to follow on.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the 20 years before 2001, teams that had earned the chance to enforce the follow on, or make an opposition trailing by 200 runs or more bat again, had done so on 70 out of 77 occasions. Only twice in the history of Test cricket had the team enforcing the follow on gone on to lose.<\/span><\/p>\n

Waugh, who had champions Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne in his bowling attack, was eager to drive home his side\u2019s dominance and had no reason to think his team would become the third.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He had not counted on Indian pair VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid, whose incredible partnership of 376 was beyond the imaginings even of their teammates, and tipped the Test and the series on its head.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt still gives me goosebumps when I think about that game, where we were on the second day and third day and where we were on the fifth-day evening,\u201d says Harbhajan Singh, whose first-innings hat-trick and 13 wickets for the Test helped orchestrate one of Australia\u2019s most famous defeats.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou are winning the game from nothing. It was unimaginable to win the game from there against that Australian side that was unbeatable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The hat-trickster<\/span><\/h3>\n

Harbhajan\u00a0would go on to become one of Australia\u2019s greatest antagonists<\/a>\u00a0but at the time he was a young off-spinner fighting for his career.<\/span><\/p>\n

Twenty years on, Harbhajan recalls that he embraced the \u201cwarrior\u201d spirit of his northern Indian state, the Punjab, before he transformed the Test in three balls in front of 90,000 noisy fans.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Australians were 4-252 in their first innings when Harbhajan struck.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt was Ricky Ponting first lbw, then Adam Gilchrist lbw first ball. He was looking for the ball to spin but it didn\u2019t spin \u2013 it skids on from the wicket and hits his pad. I rushed him,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThen that great catch by Sadagoppan Ramesh [to dismiss Shane Warne]. He took a blinder from that flick from what Warney played. I feel that hat-trick as much as it belonged to me, it belonged to Sadagoppan Ramesh as well. That was kind of a game-changer for us \u2013 getting three wickets in three balls was like a big thing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Harbhajan\u2019s hat-trick was the first by an Indian spinner in Tests.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Australians still climbed to 445, with Waugh the last wicket to fall and Harbhajan claiming 7-123. India succumbed for 171 in reply.\u00a0Laxman, the elegant batsman from Hyderabad, at No.6, was the only Indian batsman to appear assured.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The follow-on and its fallout<\/span><\/h3>\n

Australia\u2019s decision to make India bat again ranks alongside Ricky Ponting\u2019s decision to bowl first in\u00a0the 2005 Ashes Test at Edgbaston<\/a>\u00a0among captaincy calls the nation would rather forget. They led by 274 runs and were brimming with confidence, but opening batsman Matthew Hayden now says\u00a0Warne<\/a> opposed the decision, and that it may have created \u201ca bit of a fracture\u201d in the group.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cStephen had his point of view but Warney definitely had his point of view on it as well. He wanted to bat. That was maybe enough to just create a bit of a negative mindset … that was the whole magic of [that] era because it didn\u2019t doubt itself ever, it went for the throat,\u201d Hayden said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Coach Buchanan wishes he had taken time to discuss the strategy with Waugh, even though it probably wouldn\u2019t have changed the decision.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn that probably two-minute discussion, it would have surfaced I would have thought that the only way India could get back in to the game was to make them follow on, because if we batted again, even if we batted poorly, they are chasing over 400 on a fourth-or-fifth-day wicket,\u201d Buchanan said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Shane Warne is frustrated as VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid bat their way to a record partnership at Eden Gardens.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dravid and Laxman<\/span><\/h3>\n

Sent back in,\u00a0Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly<\/a>\u00a0made one of the greatest moves of his captaincy, promoting Laxman, averaging only 27 at that stage of his career, to No.3, and dropping Dravid to No.6.<\/span><\/p>\n

All still seemed to be going Australia\u2019s way by stumps on day three. Laxman was unbeaten on 109 but the home team was 4-254, and Laxman had been joined by the uncertain Dravid, who was seven not out.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Then came one of cricket\u2019s most extraordinary exhibitions of skill and willpower. Laxman and Dravid batted through day four for a partnership of 376, as the tourists wilted in the heat. Hayden remembers being pelted with stones by home fans, who he said were scraping the stadium walls to create the projectiles. In the columns of the late\u00a0Age<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Sydney Morning Herald<\/em>\u00a0cricket writer Peter Roebuck, Laxman soon became \u201cVery Very Special Laxman\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Laxman made 281 and Dravid 180. Ganguly declared India\u2019s innings closed on 7-657 \u2013 giving Australia two options on the final day \u2013 to chase the 384 needed to win, or repel their natural instincts attempt to defend for a draw.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn the second innings was something that I have never seen in Test cricket before,\u201d Harbhajan said. \u201cTwo people out there batting throughout the day and not giving any chance to the opposition \u2013 it was unbelievable. They actually got us back into the game, not I would say my hat-trick, but that partnership between VVS and Rahul. [It] gave us a chance to bowl to this Australian team in the second innings.\u2033\u2063<\/span><\/p>\n

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Epic: VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid produced one of the most famous partnerships in Test historyCREDIT:<\/span>AP<\/cite><\/span><\/p>\n

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On day five, Australia had lost only three wickets by tea but Waugh, having called for a tempered approach, later admitted to watching on in disbelief as his side continued to attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe [Waugh] had a great defence and at the same time play shots as well but not many had that kind of mindset to defend when they have to defend,\u201d Harbhajan said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey feel the best way to bat is to score runs, which of course it is, but sometimes defending is also the best way possible. In that particular period, if they could have defended for a session, shut down everything, and just look to take singles and not play big shots, big drives, they could have survived that game. Knowing them, they were still going for their shots, and that helped us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hayden countered that claim<\/a>, declaring the Australian side of that era was \u201cterrible\u201d when required to go against its natural instincts and play defensively, arguing it just couldn\u2019t play that way.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI also think the difference is, the mindset of the group was only good in an aggressive mindset. It was a terrible team if we ever had to be in a position where we had to go a conservative route,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Australians were dismissed for 212 in only 68.3 overs, Harbhajan \u2013 now nicknamed the \u201cTurbanator\u201d \u2013 enjoying match figures of 13-196, en route to 32 wickets for the series,\u00a0and quickly earning a reputation as someone who didn\u2019t mind yapping in his native tongue at an opponent renowned for its lip in the field.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAll I can tell you is that I have grown up in Punjab where we produce warriors. I didn\u2019t know that I was doing something. That comes naturally, that is the way I am … I would look into your face and talk or do things looking at you,\u201d Harbhajan said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Back page of The Age, March 16 2001CREDIT:<\/span>THE AGE<\/cite><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This approach helped him to go on and claim a whopping 15-217 in the third and final Test in Chennai, the home side winning by two wickets, denying Waugh his final shot at a series victory in India.<\/span><\/p>\n

Warne feuds with Waugh, Buchanan<\/span><\/h3>\n

Waugh joined Jack Blackham (against England in 1894) and Kim Hughes (against England in 1981) as the only captains to have lost after enforcing the follow-on. He maintains he doesn\u2019t regret the decision.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a decision we discussed as a team but I was extra keen to keep them pinned down and keep the momentum going,\u201d Waugh wrote in his autobiography.<\/span><\/p>\n

Warne, who has never hidden his disdain for Waugh\u2019s captaincy, had missed the Australian summer because of a finger injury.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy view is that Steve Waugh had become obsessed with our record winning run of 16 consecutive Tests, and he forgot that patience goes a long way in winning cricket matches. Instead of applying common sense to the decision of whether to enforce the follow-on, he went with arrogance,\u201d Warne countered his own book.<\/span><\/p>\n

Warne was not fully fit in India but was still used as a frontline weapon (taking10 wickets at 50.5 for the series) with typically Australian attacking fields unsuited to India.<\/span><\/p>\n

Buchanan remembers getting himself into a spot of bother with Warne when he was asked at the time about his form.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSomebody in the press conference asked me, how was Warne going, and I said something along the lines of: \u2018He could be a bit fitter\u2019 or whatever I said, but it got interpreted that I said he was fat. Something like that. Then Warney didn\u2019t speak to me for the rest of the tour,\u201d Buchanan said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI must say, he tried his heart out but he was well short of the sort of Shane Warne that could win you a game.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Steve Waugh, Shane Warne and John Buchanan chat before an ODI in New Zealand in 2000.CREDIT:<\/span>ALLSPORT<\/cite><\/span><\/p>\n

Hayden says he wasn\u2019t superstitious but wonders whether fellow opener Michael Slater may have inadvertently \u201cplayed\u201d with the sporting gods.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI remember going into Eden Gardens, we had India in trouble and then Dravid and Laxman at the crease. If we get one more wicket here on that day of play, it\u2019s game over and India will capitulate,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Slats\u2019 had this box of Cuban cigars that we were going to smoke at the end of the day when we had won and secured the Border-Gavaskar Trophy \u2013 but I remember thinking the sporting gods are a very sinister mob. We went through that day not taking an entire wicket and then going on ourselves to get hammered in the second innings, the irony of it was just enormous.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The lessons of Eden Gardens<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

India\u2019s triumph in Kolkata transformed the way Australia approached subsequent tours.<\/span><\/p>\n

Waugh didn\u2019t get the chance to conquer his \u201cfinal frontier\u201d but three years later the Australians returned under\u00a0stand-in skipper Gilchrist (Ponting had a broken thumb and played only in the last Test) and claimed an historic 2-1 series win.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The lessons of Eden Gardens meant they returned to India with a whole new set of tactics. Buchanan said this included a focus on pace bowling and the use of defensive \u201cin-out\u201d fields \u2013 with fielders stationed in the deep to cut off boundaries and force the Indians to do something they didn\u2019t like, run between the wickets. In 2004, Warne was employed more as a stock bowler.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIndia thrived on boundaries and the crowd thrived on boundaries, so the more we cut their boundaries down, the more that the crowd was quieter and wasn\u2019t sort of fuel for the Indian dressingroom,\u201d Buchanan said.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the 20 years since that famous 2001 Border-Gavaskar series, though, Australia have won just one series in India. There have been humiliations, none more disastrous than the 2013 debacle when Shane Watson, Mitchell Johnson, Usman Khawaja and Mitchell Johnson were\u00a0suspended for failing to complete the \u201chomework\u201d<\/a>\u00a0assigned by doomed coach Mickey Arthur. Australia went on to lose 4-0. The fight embodied by Harbhajan, Dravid and Laxman has endured, and the tourists have assembled a cast of fast bowlers capable of excelling on Australian pitches, winning their past two series here.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2001, India dethroned a great Australian team, and have held an edge for most of the two decades since.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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