Top 3 overseas Test wins for Team India in the last ten years 

Over the years the Indian team have been orchestrated as 'home-track' bullies who slay opponents with disdain at home while succumbing on foreign shores tamely.

In the 90s the Indian team failed to win single Test overseas. But, it all changed when a certain Sourav Ganguly came to the helm in early 2000.

Ganguly induced cutting edge and ruthlessness in the Indian set-up and consequently, positive results ensued. A win in Port of Spain in 2002 was followed by a drubbing of the English at Leeds the same year.

That said, today in this article we'll recount top 3 India's overseas wins in the past ten years.

Here's a compilation:-

#3 Australia vs. India, W.A.CA, Perth 2008

India is the only team to beat Australia in Australia twice between 1999-2008

Trailing 0-2 in the series, India, powered by gritty batting displays from Rahul Dravid (93) and Sachin Tendulkar (71), posted a respectable 330 in the first innings. In the 2007-08 Border Gavaskar Trophy, amidst the 'monkey-gate' scandal, a plethora of wrong umpiring decisions and a rampaging Australian squad in pursuit of their 17th consecutive Test win, India had their task cut out when they took on the Aussies in the 3rd Test at the WACA in Perth.

An outstanding spell of swing bowling by the duo of RP Singh (4/68) and Irfan Pathan (2/63) helped India gain a significant first-innings lead of 118 runs.

That lead was further enhanced by a watchful 46 by night-watchman Irfan Pathan and yet another VVS Laxman second innings classic, whose knock ensured Australia needed to chase a world record 413 runs to win their 17th Test in a row.

Ricky Ponting and Michael Hussey battled for two and a half hours, and not since Flintoff 2005 has any bowler made the Australian skipper look like such an amateur as Ishant Sharma did during his marathon nine-over spell.

He eventually got Ponting caught at slip to Dravid, and with Symonds (12) and Hussey (0) receiving lbw decisions, and Gilchrist (15) being bowled round his legs by Sehwag (2-24), the clock was ticking on Austalia's 16-match winning streak.

However, Mitchell Johnson (50) led the typical Australian fight, smacking the bowlers all around the WACA, especially Anil Kumble.

As he threatened to take the game away, Kumble turned to his fast bowlers, who quickly polished off the tail to hand India one of their most memorable wins overseas.

Result:- India won by 72 runs

#2 England vs India, Lord's 2014

India's first win at Lord's since 1986

A defiant hundred by Ajinkya Rahane (103), diligently supported by Bhuvneshwar Kumar (36) resurrected India's innings from 145/7 to a competitive 295 all out. After failing to win a Test at Lord's for 28 years, India wasn't expected to do much better when England dished out a 'green mamba' in the second Test of the Test series in 2014.

Bhuvi was once again the star with the ball in the first Innings as his 6/82 helped India restrict England to 319, despite Garry Ballance's hundred.

Trailing England by 24, India was once again on tenterhooks at 123/4, leading England by a mere 98.

A resilient Vijay (95) and quick cameos from Ravindra Jadeja (68) and Bhuvneshwar (52) helped India set England 318 runs to win.

Subsequently, Sharma (7/74) compiled his magnum opus to bounce out England, scripting a glorious victory for India by 95 runs.

Result: India won by 95 runs

#1 South Africa vs India, Johannesburg, 2018

India's baptism with fire

On a snakepit masquerading as the Wanderers' pitch, it was Kohli's team's baptism with the fire that helped India script a memorable Test win.

Vijay (25) showed a glimpse of his former self by leaving a lot of balls outside the off stump, something we have seldom witnessed this series. Vijay (25) showed a glimpse of his former self by leaving a lot of balls outside the off stump, something we have seldom witnessed this series

But Rahane (48) came out to bat after lunch as if to show what India has been missing throughout the series.

On a pitch where survival was endangered Rahane's counter-attack peg, South Africa, back considerably as India's vice-captain helped the visitors post 247 in the second innings.

South Africa had themselves, not the pitch, to blame for bowling too short and too wide in the afternoon session mainly and underestimating India's batting resolve.

However, the stubborn resistance offered by Hashim Amla (52) and Dean Elgar (86) offered the home side a glimmer of hope but Mohammed Shami's spell of 5-28 helped India overcome the odds and inflict an astounding collapse as eight South African wickets fell for 46 runs.

Result:- India won by 63 runs