If there is one batsman who can overshadow Sachin Tendulkar with his strokeplay at the crease, it is VVS Laxman, the wristy genius from Hyderabad. Laxman has the amazing ability to hit against the spin with the skillful use of his wrists, which allow him to flick the ball even from outside off-stump to mid-wicket. Laxman has an overall average of 47.40 and against Australia, who have come to dread him, Laxman averages 55.58. Australia have bore most of the brunt of Laxman's dazzling strokeplay as he has hit 16 centuries in his Test career and six of them have come against Australia and two of them have been double centuries. Playing in Sydney for the first time in January 2000, Laxman reached triple figures for the first time in Test cricket. But his 167 in the second innings was not enough to save India as Australia won the match by an innings and 141 runs to wrap up the series 3-0. Laxman's claim to fame came when India became only the second country in Test cricket history to win a Test match after being made to follow-on at the Eden Gardens. Laxman's 281 and Dravid's 180 turned the match on its head as India beat Australia by 171 runs. On the 2003-04 Australia tour, Laxman made 148 at the Adelaide Oval in the second Test. India went on to win the Test and for the first time ever took a series lead against Australia on their soil. In the fourth Test of that series, Laxman hit 178 at Sydney and put up a 353-run stand for the fourth wicket with Sachin Tendulkar, as India amassed 705 runs. Retiring captain Steve Waugh had to bring all his experience into play as Australia managed to draw the Test. On the 2008 tour, in the infamous Sydney Test that Australia won under dubious circumstances aided by shoddy umpiring and marred by the Harbhajan Singh-Andrew Symonds race row, Laxman hit 109 in the first innings. Laxman scored his second double century, an unbeaten 200 at the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi, on Australia's tour to India in 2008. An injured Laxman hit a 79-ball 73 to steer India to a one-wicket victory over Australia on the final day of the first Test at Mohali.