5 narrowest victories in Test matches in the last decade

People call it boring, they say the format is dying, they say it cannot match the thrill of T20s. Well they couldn't be more wrong. Here is a look at some of the closest victories in Test matches in the last decade based on the number of runs or the number of wickets remaining. A true exhibition of battling for survival, which can never be matched by an entire season of mindless slogging put together.

#5 India vs Australia, Fourth Test, Mumbai, 2004

Winner- India

Margin- 13 runs

On a wicket, which was no more than a dustbowl, the Indian spin trio of Anil Kumble, Harbhajan Singh and Murali Kartik, pulled off one of the most dramatic wins in recent times. On a surface where 200 seemed like 400, Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman scripted superb half centuries to take India past 200 and set the Aussies a target of 107 to chase. The spinners began in the right earnest and has the Australian batsmen on the backfoot with the scorecard reading 24 for three. Every run scored and every run saved seemed like gold. Hayden was out there in the middle and he cut and slogged effectively. But he perished playing one sweep too many to one ball pitched outside leg, and the ball trickled onto the stumps via glove and pad, and with this the Aussie hopes were shattered. Kartik soon got the better of Clarke and Gilchrist, and India was back in the driver's seat. But Hauritz and Gillespie stitched together a vital partership before Kumble managed to trap Hauritz LBW. At 78 for eight, Kasperowicz joined Gillespie. Then began an eight over ordeal for the Indians as these two showed immense determination with their defence and added fifteen runs to the total. But India's trump card against the Aussies, Harbhajan Singh came back into the attack and cleaned up the tail in the span of three balls, giving India one of its closest victories.