India, March 13 -- Indian cricket has had many births and rebirths over the last five decades, an identity built on big unlikely results and a fighting spirit. The very peak of this came this week 25 years ago, when India's Test team led by an iconic batting effort from VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid in Kolkata became the first team to win a Test after being forced to follow-on.

That result against the might of the Australian team, at the historic Eden Gardens, is now a big part of the fabric of Indian cricket history. A quarter of a century on, to celebrate the jubilee of that occasion, Laxman and Dravid reflected on what it meant to stitch together that kind of partnership under the fiercest pressure.

Dravid had been knocked down to numb...