When 'blood spread at crease' and Ganguly used all 11 players as bowlers in Test

The 4th Test of the 2002 bid betwixt India and West Indies, played astatine Antigua, is wide remembered for Anil Kumble’s show of courage. In the 2nd innings, Kumble bowled with a breached jaw, his look strapped with bandages, aft being deed earlier successful the match.

That representation remains 1 of cricket's astir inspiring sight."It was 1 of the bravest things I've seen connected the tract of play," Viv Richards aboriginal said.However, the Antigua Test is recalled for reasons beyond Kumble’s wounded and resolve. The Test is remembered for much than that infinitesimal alone.On May 14, 2002, during West Indies' archetypal innings, wicketkeeper Ajay Ratra bowled the 247th implicit to Shivnarine Chanderpaul. That created a uncommon grounds — it marked the lone lawsuit successful Test cricket wherever each eleven players from India bowled successful a azygous innings.

India became conscionable the 3rd squad to usage each 11 players arsenic bowlers successful an innings.The lucifer ended successful a draw. It was played astatine the Antigua Recreation Ground successful St John’s from May 10 to 14, 2002. The transportation offered small assistance to bowlers. India scored 513 runs successful 196 overs aft being reduced to 257 for 6. VVS Laxman, who scored 130, and Ratra added 217 runs for the seventh wicket.West Indies won the flip and chose to field. The bid was level astatine 1-1 heading into the 4th Test.

India mislaid opener Shiv Sunder Das aboriginal for 3, but Wasim Jaffer and Rahul Dravid responded with a 155-run concern for the 2nd wicket. Sachin Tendulkar was dismissed for a first-ball duck, different uncommon moment. Sourav Ganguly past joined Dravid, and the brace ensured India did not suffer immoderate further wickets connected the opening day.On the 2nd morning, India mislaid Ganguly for 45, Dravid for 91 and Kumble for 6 successful speedy time.

Laxman and Ratra past added an unbeaten 205 runs for the eighth wicket. Laxman was dismissed for 130 aboriginal connected the 3rd day, but Ratra went connected to implicit his period and added astir 40 much runs with the little order. India declared astatine 513 for 9 connected Day 3.Ratra’s 100 made the 20-year-old the youngest wicketkeeper to people a Test period astatine the time. West Indies wicketkeeper Ridley Jacobs besides scored a century, making it the archetypal Test successful which the regular wicketkeepers from some teams reached 3 figures.West Indies replied with 629 for 9 successful 248 overs. Captain Carl Hooper scored 136, Chanderpaul made an unbeaten 136, and Jacobs added 118. The lucifer ended successful a draw.India utilized each eleven players arsenic bowlers. Javagal Srinath bowled 45 overs. Ashish Nehra and Zaheer Khan each bowled much than 40 overs. Ganguly bowled 12 overs, portion Tendulkar delivered 34. Kumble bowled 14 overs contempt his breached jaw and dismissed Brian Lara.

Laxman bowled 17 overs and took 1 wicket. Dravid bowled 9 overs and dismissed Jacobs. Jaffer bowled 11 overs and took 2 wickets. Shiv Sunder Das sent down 8 overs, portion Ratra bowled 1 over.

The lucifer is champion remembered for the guts shown by Anil Kumble arsenic helium came connected to vessel with a breached jaw to disregard West Indies large Brian Lara."For maine personally, it was a memorable Test. It was large feeling to people Test 100 connected overseas soil. When I went to the middle, determination was humor dispersed astatine the crease erstwhile Anil Kumble was deed by a Merv Dhillon bouncer. I was spot tense but yet grew successful assurance successful institution of Laxman. The wicket inactive had thing successful it but aboriginal connected it went connected go flatter. I ne'er thought I would vessel successful a Test match. (laughs) I inactive archer radical that I bowled successful a Test lucifer for India," ex-india wicketkeeper Ajay Ratra told TOI successful 2016.