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Will Ganguly be third time lucky?

By Rajneesh Gupta
October 13, 2004 20:02 IST
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India will go in to the second down Test in Chennai, one-down in the series, having lost the first Test in Bangalore, but skipper Sourav Ganguly can take some inspiration from the fact that in the 2000-01 series against Australia, they were in a similar situation at the start of the second Test.

India made history in the second Test at Kolkata and then went on to win the series by virtue of an exciting win in the third Test at Chennai.

There have been only half a dozen instances when India managed to either win or draw a series (of at least three Tests) after losing the first Test. Four of these six have come at home soil.

Ganguly is the only Indian captain to have done so twice. The other occasion (apart from series against Australia in 2000-01 was in 2002 series against England in England.

Will Ganguly be third time lucky?

Opponents Series Tests Result Captain Venue
Australia 1964-65 3 1-1 Nawab of Pataudi,Jr. India
England 1972-73 5 2-1 Ajit Wadekar India
Australia 1980-81 3 1-1 Sunil Gavaskar Australia
West Indies 1987-88 4 1-1 Dilip Vengsarkar & Ravi Shastri India
Australia 2000-01 3 2-1 Sourav Ganguly India
England 2002 4 1-1 Sourav Ganguly England

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