With the new beginning of the century in the year 2000, the Indian team also changed completely. With the beginning of the new century, the Indian team started winning on foreign soil as well. Under the captaincy of Sourav Ganguly, the Indian team did more than one feat. But Sourav Ganguly sat on a dharna for an Indian cricketer and he also shook the selectors to make his point.

Sourav Ganguly always used to take his favorite team on the field and he used to fight with the selectors for the same. Only the best players were needed in their team on the Pune ground and they were ready to do anything for it. A glimpse of which was seen before the 2001 India-Australia series.

In fact, Ganguly knew the weakness of Australian batsmen against off-spin. Because of this, he wanted to include Harbhajan Singh in Team India from the very beginning. But the selectors did not give place to Harbhajan in the team and he was not even listening to Ganguly. Because earlier also Harbhajan was given many opportunities. But he failed every time. Due to this once again the team selectors were not ready to bet on Harbhajan once again.

But Sourav Ganguly decided to get Harbhajan Singh a place in the team. He started dharna in front of the selectors in the meeting for Harbhajan Singh. He did not end his dharna until the selectors agreed to take Harbhajan into the team. However, Harbhajan Singh also did not let Ganguly's trust break. In the match against Australia, he did something that became history. Harbhajan Singh took 6 wickets including a hat-trick in the first innings of the Kolkata Test. He also took 6 wickets in the second innings.