India, March 26 -- It's been a little over ten days since the silver jubilee of that Test match was celebrated, with much pomp and fanfare. That Test match, of course, was India versus Australia, a game that seemed headed in only one direction even after the third day before the hosts staged the mother of all comebacks, turning near-certain defeat into one of the most storied triumphs in the five-day game.

The venue of that breathtaking outing between 11 and 16 March 2001? The theatre of dreams that answers to the name of Eden Gardens in Kolkata, the City of Joy.

Guess what? That remains the last time India have locked horns with their fiercest rivals (the India-Pakistan rivalry is passe, a has-been, not helped by the fact that the team...