Victory under Steel Grey Clouds: The Song of the 2002 Leeds Test
2002 was a year of many changes in the cricketing world, especially for Indian cricket. India were now firmly in the John Wright-Sourav Ganguly era and were starting to take some strides forward with the occasional speed-breakers in their path. The highs of the 2001 Border-Gavaskar Trophy win was accompanied by the lows of test series defeats in South Africa, West Indies, as also countless defeats in pressure ODI games in various triangular series finals and bilateral ODI series finales. But there was also an influx of younger, hungrier players such as Yuvraj Singh, Mohammad Kaif, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Harbhajan Singh, Virender Sehwag et al, who were ready to take the Indian team into a new age, and the tour of England in 2002 was being looked upon by this team management to mark the emergence of the Indian team in the 21 st century. India had, on their tour of the West Indies just before this series, had taken a few drastic steps to shake up their ODI team, amongst them was th