The Moments Series: The Multan Declaration
From All Out For No Loss by Team All Out For No Loss
September 8, 2025 · 30 min · Season 2 · Episode 33
About this episode
The episode discusses the controversial declaration by Rahul Dravid during the historic Multan Test match in 2004.
AOFNL The Moments Series Episode 1: The Multan Declaration Never before or since has a declaration by an Indian captain led to so much discussion, debate, hand wringing and in many cases anguish. Of course this is about the declaration by Rahul Dravid on March 29 2004 at Multan. A Sehwag 300 (the first by an Indian) had powered India to a magnificent 675 and set the stage for pushing Pakistan hard in the first test of the series. In addition to the Sehwag masterclass (and was it one) there was some wonderful batting by Sachin, Yuvraj, Inzi, Yousuf and a brilliant 6-fer by Anil Kumble on that road of a pitch as well some excellent bowling by Irfan Pathan. The same test match that also saw the entire of Saqlain Mushtaq's wonderful career. But even more than 21 years since that game, references to the game would almost surely only focus on a declaration made with about an hour to go on second day of the game. Was the Indian skipper on the day right in making that call ? A question that continues to unite and divide cricket fans all over the country. We from the AOFNL team had a wonderful time reliving that moment and once again were left with really no answer to that question. Take…
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Hosts: Vasant Kumar, Vijaykumar Balasubramanian, Ramakrishnan G Iyer, Anand Kumar Sankaran
Topics covered
- cricket
- declaration
- test match
- Indian cricket history
- controversial decisions
- player performances
- sports debate
Keywords
- Multan Declaration
- Rahul Dravid
- Virender Sehwag
- test cricket
- Indian cricket
- controversy
- Anil Kumble
- Irfan Pathan
- Saqlain Mushtaq
- March 29 2004
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