28th March 2016
Indians created history by lifting the World Cup after defeating the mighty West Indies on 25 June 1983. But India made yet another history on another 25 June. It was in 1932 when it played its first ever test match against England.
28th March 2016
It was a vicious off-cutter from Balwinder Singh Sandhu. Gordon Greenidge shouldered arms, and the ball turned and knocked off the stump. It marked the beginning of a disaster for West Indies and a significant point for India’s victory in the World Cup final, 1983.
19th March 2016
Bob Marley, the famous Jamaican singer, Alvin Kallicharran, the stylish left-handed batsman of West Indies and Sunil Gavaskar, the little Master of India named their sons Rohan in appreciation of the famous West Indies batsman Rohan Kanhai, who played 79 test matches and scored 6,227 at an average of 47.53. He has also played 7 ODls and scored 164 runs at an average of 54.66.
16th March 2016
Two members of the Cricket World Cup 1983 winning team had acted in the film, Kabhi Ajnabi The, Sandip Patil as the hero and Syed Kirmani as the villain.
11th February 2016
India defeated the mighty West Indies to win the Cricket World Cup in 1983. India was treated as rank underdogs so much so that before the beginning of the final, the stakes in favour of India were declared as 1 in 66.
8th February 2016
In the 1971 Test match series against the West Indies, the first day of the first test match was washed out due to rains. India batted first and it turned out that India led by more than 150 runs in the first innings and there was only one day left. So the captain of the Indian Team Ajit Wadekar went straight to the West Indies dressing room and asked Gary Sobers, the captain of the West Indian team, ‘Mr. Sobers would you like to bat?’ He looked surprised and asked Wadekar whether he was enforcing the follow-on, and if he knew the rules. There should be at least a 200-run deficit. Wadekar said, ‘Perhaps you forgot to read further. It also says that in a match, which has been curtailed by a day from the very beginning, the deficit has to be at least a hundred and fifty runs.’ Sober still sat there in a state of shock and asked again: ‘Are you sure?’
