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The gruelling 10-hour torture that brought Australia to its knees and ‘changed cricket’ forever – Fox Sports

Three days before the second Test in Calcutta, 2001, – a Test for the ages – VVS Laxman aggravated his back. He shouldn’t have played. He got to “60 per cent” fitness…

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At 60 per cent fitness, Laxman, together with his good friend Rahul Dravid, would bat for the entire fourth day in stifling heat and humidity to register Indias highest individual score and break Australias hearts and resolve after Steve Waughs men had sent the home side into bat again with the series within their grasps.
Laxman and Dravid would walk off Eden Gardens into the pavilion and have a drip inserted to hydrate their weary and dehydrated bodies, before having dinner at Gangulys home and…

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