Three years after their 2001 series defeat, a tour that was dubbed the “final frontier” by skipper Steve Waugh, Australia returned to India under Adam Gilchrist and Ricky Ponting’s captaincy, winning the four-match series 2-1, their first series win on Indian soil since 1969/70.

“As a bowling group, we sat down and worked out how we’re going to [make an] impact for the team in India, in Indian conditions,” Jason Gillespie, part of Australia’s bowling attack on that tour, said on the Instagram Live show Homerun with AV.

“We wanted to test their fitness and we just felt that if we kept charging in and attacking the stumps, eventually the Indian batters might miss one or two of those, and we can get an lbw or a bowled and that’s what happened.”

The change in tactic worked wonders, as none of the Indian batsmen, barring Sehwag, managed to score a single hundred in the four Tests, against the bowling unit featuring Gillespie, Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne, Michael Kasprowicz, Michael Clarke and Nathan Hauritz.