Down 0-2 in the best-of-five series, Alastair Cook's England team have it all to do as the fourth Test gets underway in Mumbai on December 8. However, the famed Wankhede Stadium is a ground where past England teams - two of which Cook was a part of - have staged epic victories to lift themselves from the gloom.
On that note, here's a look at English cricket's famous wins at the Wankhede Stadium.
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The Golden Jubilee Test, in celebration of 100 years of the Indian cricket board, was a one-man show with a dazzling Ian Botham deflating India with 13 wickets and blazing century. Botham's six wickets kept India to 242 and then he took over with the bat, hitting 113 with 17 fours to lift his team from 58/5 to 296. He just got better and better, with seven wickets to follow as India were dismissed for 149. A target of 96 was achieved without loss.
India qualified for the semis on the back of Sunil Gavaskar's swan song and Chetan Sharma's hat-trick, but when they reached Bombay, as it was known then, they contrived to lose the plot. After Kapil Dev asked England to bat on a tricky surface, Graham Gooch and Mike Gatting got down and swept and pulled themselves a 117-run alliance in 19 overs. That paved the way for a total of 254 that proved too much for India's vaunted batting line-up, missing Dilip Vengsarkar with a stomach bug. Kris Srikanth and Navjot Singh Sidhu, dashers alike, weren't able to pinch a single boundary and the pressure built up. Eddy Hemmings ended the match with 4/21 in 34 balls and England, though sheer commitment, dashed the host's aspirations of a place in the final.
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After losing the Test series, England flew home for the Christmas period and returned for six ODIs. After winning the second match to level the scores, they appeared to be heading for more misery after India won in Chennai and Kanpur. But then Ashley Giles turned the table in Delhi with a match-winning spell of 5/9 in 20 deliveries as England won by two runs, and in the final match at the Wankhede the tourists pulled off a thrilling five-run victory under floodlights.
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Defending 255, England rallied tooth and nail to pull the carpet from below India's feet. Sourav Ganguly's 80 off 99 balls threatened to take the hosts home but his dismissal, bowled by Giles, saw India go from 191/4 to 250 all out with a ball to spare. Leading the way was Andrew Flintoff with three wickets, and when he took the final out he went berserk. Flintoff's shirtless celebrations remained the lasting image of that engaging ODI contest.
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England, after a draw in Nagpur and crushing defeat in Mohali, needed to win in Mumbai to draw the series. That this was possible was hard for many to envision, but a dramatic final-day collapse of 7/25 in the afternoon session meant India had squandered their lead and England had ended a 21-year winless streak in the country emphatically. Andrew Flintoff's side was simply too good for India in the match, right from the time they made 270/3 on the first day until Munaf Patel became the 37-year-old Shaun Udal's fourth wicket on the fifth.
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Cook was a revelation during England's historic series triumph in India. In Ahmedabad, he compiled a marathon 176 in the second innings to show his team how to tame India's rampaging spinners, even as England lost the opening Test.
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In the second Test in Mumbai, India won the toss and led by Cheteshwar Pujara's second century of the series, piled on 327 in the first innings. England replied strongly with Cook laying the foundations for victory with a steely 122, while Pietersen making merry with 186. Monty Panesar and Graeme Swann shared 10 wickets which turned the tables on India. The hosts could never recover and were bowled out for 142 with only Gautam Gambhhir's 65 adding a bit of resistance. England knocked off 58 runs to register a sensational win on a turning track.