Think Eden Gardens, and the memories come flooding back – some good, many not-so-good.

Think Eden Gardens, and the memories come flooding back – some good, many not-so-good.

The not-so-good include the World Cup semifinal heartbreak against Sri Lanka in 1996, when the match had to be halted due to crowd trouble and awarded to Arjuna Ranatunga’s men with the hosts out for the count. The Asian Test Championship league fixture against Pakistan in 1999, when Shoaib Akhtar bamboozled Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar off successive deliveries, crowd issues reared their ugly head, and the match was completed (Pakistan winning after being 26 for six on day one) in front of empty stands.

At the top of the oh-so-good, indisputably, is that Test against Australia in 2001, when VVS Laxman an

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