india greatest victory

In early 1983, Kapil Dev led his men to the Caribbean. It was India's only series in the West Indies against the pace quartet. They lost 0-2: a nailbiting finish in the first Test, and a 10-wicket defeat in the fourth at Barbados, reputedly the fastest pitch of them all. I still remember the scores - India 209 and 277; Mohinder 91 and 80.It was an epic contest. As Subhash Gupte, by then living in Trinidad, later put it, "They kept bouncing, and Mohinder kept hooking." In one Test he was hit on the head and retired hurt. He returned a few wickets later, was met with a first-ball bouncer - and hooked it to the boundary. Of course, I saw none of this. It was an age before 24x7 telecasts. In a household remarkably free of cricket fans, I had but a transistor on low volume for company. In that strange, pre-modern media environment, All India Radio brought just the first two sessions live to listeners. The post-tea session was delayed, coming as a "deferred" broadcast about an hour later, perilously close to school time.