Laxman’s 281

Remains only the third time in history that a team lost after enforcing the follow-on; Australia were at the receiving end on all occasions. On the Ides of March, Harbhajan Singh (13/196) showed that Australia may have won 15 Tests on the bounce, but were still susceptible to off-spin. Yet Australia dominated and when all seemed lost, VVS Laxman (281) and Rahul Dravid (180) batted the entire fourth day to cript one of cricket’s most markable turnarounds. This defeat iralled into another in the next Test Chennai, and with it, the series.