India, Feb. 7 -- Test match No. 1443, India vs Pakistan, at the Ferozeshah Kotla (now Arun Jaitley Stadium) in New Delhi. The second game of a two-match series, the first between the teams in India since 1987. Wasim Akram's side had clinched a thriller a week previously by 12 runs in Chennai despite an exceptional fourth-innings century from Sachin Tendulkar, who battled a high-class attack and excruciating back pain to nearly pull off the impossible.

India had to win in the national capital if they weren't to surrender a second straight home series to their arch-rivals. Everything went to plan over the first three days, India opening up an 80-run first-innings lead to make the most of Mohammad Azharuddin's luck with the coin, then endin...