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TOI Sports Desk | TIMESOFINDIA.COM

On this day in 2001, VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid scripted one of the greatest comebacks in Test history at Eden Gardens

By the end of third day of the Kolkata Test against Australia at the Eden Gardens in 2001, India were down and all but out. Following on, the hosts were 232/4 in second innings, still 42 runs behind the visitors and had just six more wickets left. That's when VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid started writing a rising-from-the-ashes story that became one of the most incredible comebacks in the history of Test cricket.

Laxman was batting on 109 and Dravid on 7 at the start of day four. But when the stumps were drawn, India hadn't lost a wicket in the entire day's play and Laxman had moved to 275 and Dravid to 155.

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