da 888： Vote for the best individual Border-Gavaskar Trophy performance by an Indian in Australia since 2000

da dobrowin： Alagappan Muthu21-Oct-2024Update: This poll has ended. Rahul Dravid’s performance goes into the quarter-finals. Check the other polls here.ESPNcricinfo LtdRahul Dravid celebrates a famous win at Adelaide Oval in 2003•AFP via Getty ImagesRahul Dravid – 233 and 72* in Adelaide, 2003India win by four wickets, lead series 1-0Long before Rahul Dravid was immortalised for revealing that he too had the ability to yell his head off, he was immortalised for having the ability to yell his head off and also punch the air. The image of him doing so as he hit the winning runs in Adelaide almost 20 years ago is part of Indian cricket history. It was only the fourth time they had ever won a Test match in Australia – and their first victory since 1981 – and they had to come from behind to do it. From way behind, 556 runs to be exact. But Dravid kept whittling away at it, wearing Australia down not once but twice. Finally, after 12 and a half hours at the crease, scoring more runs than he has ever done or will ever do in a single Test, it made perfect sense that he would be there at the end, soaking in the Adelaide sunshine, teeth gritted, arms up high, the personification of triumph.Dravid’s heroics in that match gave India a 1-0 lead, in a series they went on to draw in Australia for the first time since 1985.Watch the highlights of these performances on the Star Sports network at 10am, 1pm, 4pm and 7pm IST, from October 22 onwards.R Ashwin exerted incredible control over the Australian batters in Adelaide in 2018•AFP / Getty ImagesR Ashwin – 3-57 in 34 overs & 3-92 in 52.5 overs in Adelaide, 2018India win by 31 runs, lead series 1-0Until this Test, R Ashwin had bowled more than 300 overs in Australia for a mere 21 wickets. That can happen when you’re on tour and the conditions aren’t entirely in your favour. In Australia especially, a spinner’s job, as much as he is there to pick up wickets, is to hold an end up so that the quick bowlers can be kept fresh so that they can come charging in again and again. Ashwin found that balance in Adelaide. More than that, he tested the Australians’ defence: each of his three first-innings wickets the result of how his mastery of flight and dip alone was enough to cause problems. Ashwin bowled 86.5 overs in the Adelaide Test, going for less than two runs an over and giving Australia no way out.Five of his six wickets were of top-order batters and his performance was crucial to India taking a 1-0 lead in what would become their first ever Test series win in Australia.