The series moves to Bangalore - the city of gardens and the IT Capital of the country. Bangalore hasn't been a happy hunting ground for India in recent years. The last victory here came way back in 1995 against NZ - that btw as a piece of trivia, was the first Test telecast by ESPN in India. A year before that Kapil Dev equalled Sir Richard Hadlee's world record at this venue in India's innings win over Sri Lanka.
Since then India have lost a close game to Australia in 1998, a not-so-close game in 2004 and have suffered a shameful defeat against the South Africans in 2000 (Azhar's last match, last hundred in last innings etc.). For the sake of trivia, the debut of Mohammad Kaif. There was a rain-affected draw against England in 2001 where India were on the backfoot most of the time courtest the Hussain-Giles legstump tactics.
This time India will be hoping to end the unsuccessful streak. They should start great favourites again now after their crushing victory at the Eden. The stars of the show, Rahul Dravid and Anil Kumble will be playing in front of their home-crowd and will be eager to put up another great performance. While Tendulkar has scored 1 hundred here at an average of 62, Rahul has scored a paltry 127 runs at 18 with a highest score of 60. He will be eager to rectify that.
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