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Steve Waugh, Kolkata and the myth of the follow-on – cricket.com.au
Statistics show that despite Australia’s historic loss to India at Eden Gardens in 2001, their captains have not grown more reluctant to enforce the follow-on in…
The famous Test battle at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens that finished 20 years ago today gave rise to many a myth.
Among those subsequently shown to carry some credence was it would be nigh-on impossible to defeat a modern Indian Test outfit on their turf (largely true given they have lost just two of the 33 home series since that epic campaign two decades ago, to Australia in 2004 and England in 2012).
Another was that no Test team would surpass the dominance of Steve Waugh’s star-laden line-up, whose…
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