Dravid a lock to carry his bat.

bye bye dravid

can't blame him, lol bad support from the lower order, lead by the captain himself..

Wp Dravid..

I think he just wanted to see what getting out felt like, just try it one time

Yeah, that was an awful shot from Dhoni. No footwork whatsoever, chasing a ball he shouldn't have been playing etc etc

I'm sure they could cram another slip or two into that cordon.

maybe one that could catch

What a match. Broad bowling superbly

England will be pretty happy with a 67 first innings defecit, I'd say.

Trott is not going to bat in 2nd innings..

There is nothing better than a Test match between two closely matched teams like this. I may dislike Stuart Broad but he is proving he is a bit special.

Hi Shane.

Everyone talks about ashes 2005 being the best test series in recent years but I think this one trumps it. India were pretty much dead that series. Australia basically never enforce the foillow on because their still traumatised from that series lol.

IMO the best thing about Dravid is even though he is so defensively minded he has all the shots in the book and is just a great batsman to watch. Deserves more credit imo.

yea, that series was special.

Australia came in as the best side in the world on a 16 test match record breaking winning streak having not won a test series in India in decades. This series was being labelled as thier final frontier and they decimated India in the first test.

They made 450 batting first in the second. India all out for 171. Following on India were 200/4 and then out of nowhere came the comeback. The fact that it happened at Eden Gardens in front of 80k people makes it even more special. The last test was really good too, India won with just 2 wickets.

Anyone who's started following test cricket recently and not seen that series should check it out, it's unreal.

Aussies have been involved in some of the best contests in the last decade. The fact that they were so far above the rest as a team meant that some individuals had to raise thier game to extraordinary heights to beat them (VVS 281, Brian Lara 156)..

As an American who was living in Australia at the time, that 2001 series vs. India not only made me a huge fan of cricket (although the first series i ever saw, the one that taught me the game, was the 5-0 mismatch over the Windies immediately preceding the India tour), but convinced me that, at its best, Test cricket is the best and most exciting sport there is. To this day, i can't hear the words "Dravid" or "Laxman" without thinking about them batting out the entire 4th day of that 2nd Test, and whenever i see Harbhajan i see that 1st-innings hat trick with Eden Gardens going absolutely ape****, and his 15-wicket performance in the deciding Test when Australia almost made an amazing comeback as their bowlers fought back to take 6 wickets for 50 runs in the 4th innings when they were all but dead. Unfortunately, they needed 8.

Hell of an introduction to the sport, wasn't it,

think the match will be over today. can't see england winning, if we do we need one of the bats to make a 150 or so but can't see that happening

catching has been terrrible the whole series for england, can't keep giving chances.

So Trott definitely won't bat? He won't go out and hold up an end if, say, they're 9 down with Prior in and looking good and they don't have quite enough on the board?

Would be really nice to (1) see Bell make a big score batting at 3, and (2) have Morgan show a bit of his class - his place will soon be under threat if doesn't.

Can we get a gif of Raina getting bitchslapped by that Yuvraj high five? I can't stop laughing every time they show that slow motion replay.

So Bell's pretty good. He's attacking too, which is a big plus for England.

I do enjoy competitive cricket and great bowling and fielding, but watching great batsmen ply their trade in test matches is what I enjoy the most.

LOL. Pretty sick to go like that on 137.

Right or wrong decision (looks like it's just carelessness from Bell), booing the umpires or the Indian team is really uncalled for.

Oh wait, they retracted it? I actually think that's wrong tbh.

Yeah strange one...Wouldn't have blamed the Indians at all for standing firm there.

lol, that's just stupid.

He was clearly going for another run and then kept walking once he realised what was going on..

I've seen much worse runouts than that.