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The inevitable distance that separated the Indian cricket fan from the playgrounds of England has declined dramatically over the decades as technology overcame Geography.The detailed match reports were formerly available in newspapers only the next day.The era of the radio allowed the irreducible to tune in John Arlott and his merry group of Test Match Special despite the whistling crazy short-wave broadcasts
ESPNcricinfo allowed fans to follow the game on their computer at work.More prosperity after the economic reforms allowed more of us to be on a crick ground and English to cheer on our team, with the Guinness mandatory pin on hand.
In July, Virat Kohli will lead the 18th Indian test team to visit England. Here is a list of highs, lows and turns in the last 86 years in a test match featuring India in England.
June 25, 1932. At Lord's, England 19 for 3
Indian test team led by CK Nayudu took the field with little expectation. Yet he had the mighty English team in trouble in no time.
The hosts opened their sleeves with the formidable Yorkshire pair of Percy Holmes and Herbert Sutcliffe. The two had been involved in a record 555 opening stand against Esbad a few days earlier, and the urban legend says that the famous State Express 555 cigarette brand was named after their act.
Be that as it may, both drummers were started by fast bowler Mohammad Nissar before they could reach both numbers. Then Lal Singh ran the elegant Frank Woolley. England lost three points for only 19 and was finally eliminated in 4 hours for a score of 259.
The visitors were definitely on top at the end of the first day. As the Almanac of Wisden Cricketers said: "As India in a bad light did 30 lossless races at the end of the day, the game being stopped for a quarter of the day. Hour and ending finally at six o'clock "Visitors can be considered to have had the best of problems."
England was once again 67 for four in the second innings, and well that the Indians then dropped the game, there is no doubt that the babies made the big boys run for their money.
During India's tour in 1936, the second test at Old Trafford did not start well for visitors Photo: Getty Images
] July 28, 1936. At Old Trafford, India 203 for no loss [1965] 9003] England had comfortably won the first test at Lord's The second test at Old Trafford did not start well for visitors.
The Indians were crowned 203 for the first inning. 173 for two at the end of the first day, with Wally Hammond hitting on 118. They eventually declared a monumental 571 for eight.
A sleeve defeat looked in the face when Vijay Merchant and Mushtaq Ali went out to open the Indian They were a study by contrast – the clinic Merchant against the dashing Ali They beat during the major part of the day, and returned to the pavilion with the Indian score at 190 for no loss.
The duo was finally separated the next day when the score was 203 per po c coincidence, the same score as the entire team handled in the first few innings. The two openers have marked centuries.
C. Ramaswami (60), C.K. Nayudu (34) and Amar Singh (48) fought to save a match that was almost lost. Cricket writer Neville Cardus wrote: "Mushtaq Ali made 112, and his cricket touched the imagination; there was suppleness and supple grace that hid power, like the sweetness of the skin hides the voracity of the force in a beautiful jungle animal. "
About the Merchant, he writes:" The merchant is, in method, the good European of the Indians, he could easily be the first drummer of the He is a fully organized player, he thinks about his moves, does not execute them by instinct. "
Fred Trueman and Alec Bedser snuck across the Indian top in both runs of the first test in 1952 Photo: Getty Images
June 7, 1952. In Headingley, India Zero for Four
The first try of this tour revealed the traditional weakness in against the moving ball Fred Trueman and Alec Bedser sneaked through the Indian top in the second innings of this game. Pankaj Roy, DK Gaekwad, Madhav Mantri and Vijay Manjrekar were back for the ducks
Polly Umrigar left when the score was 26. It was left to Captain Vijay Hazare and everyone Dattu Phadkar to regain some respectability. scored 120 of the team's 165 races. Hazare had scored 89 in the first innings also, with Manjrekar hitting a clbady 133, in a team score of 293.
England won the test easily. The shock forced the Indian coaches to recall famous Vinoo Mankad, who was then playing league cricket in England as a professional.
The next test at Lord is now known as the Mankad Test: he scored 72 and 184 in both Indian innings, and also took five wickets for 196 points in the first innings in English. Yet, England won by eight wickets.
The third test was a disaster. India was crowned for 58 in the first innings and 82 in the second, with only Hazare, Manjrekar and Hemu Adhikari putting up a semblance of combat. This is how the traditional scenario was read – a handful of brave individual efforts amid a disastrous performance of the team.
England lost the three tries in 1967. Photo: Getty Images
The 1959 tour was a failure because the Indian team led by DK Gaekwad lost the five tests. The 1967 tour was no better in terms of the final result: India lost the three tries
but not before some glimpses of what was possible in the future: in the first Test, the l '. England has accumulated 550 runs for four, before Geoff Boycott brought back his best international score of 246 and was eliminated for the next test, nine Indian players made a desperate breakthrough to get a breakthrough
. A historic retort followed: Farokh Engineer (87), Ajit Wadekar (91), Chandu Borde (33) and Hanumant Singh (73) rose to the occasion – a rare example when most of the line of Indian strikers [19659003] Even Erapalli Prasanna and Bishan Singh Bedi held firm But the star of the show was undoubtedly the captain, Mansour Ali Khan Pataudi, who led the way as usual. He followed his 64 in the first innings with a majestic 148. A few months later, Pataudi hit 75 and 85 against the Australian speed bowlers on a green summit of Melbourne, with one injured eye and one injured foot. Wisden has named one of his five cricket players of the year.
The stick show at Headingley in 1967 could be seen as an introduction to subsequent success in international cricket.
The first two essays of the England tour of India in 1971 were uniformly matched. Photo: Getty Images
Aug. 23, 1971. At the oval, l & # 39; England 101 all out
Ajit Wadekar has just led India to a series victory in the West Indies, with a young drummer by the name of Sunil Gavaskar who scored 774 points in four tries, l? other being Dilip Sardesai
. The first two tests were matched: England took a major lead on the first try in the third test, and the match seemed to be heading for the third consecutive time. Then, when Brian Luckhurst and John Jameson came out to start the second run, he was scored by BS Chandrasekhar, who took six wickets for 38 races, the English drummers not having understood the meaning of the wrist. stuck in public memory is the wicket of Al A Knott, the English wicketkeeper who had been a thorn in the side of Indian spinners.
Eknath Solkar jumped to the short leg as if his life depended on it, to put his hands under the ball just before he could touch the ground. This window was also to him that of S. Venkataraghavan.
England was eliminated for 101 runs in 45.1 overs. However, the pursuit race has not been smooth.
The openers left early. Wadekar had things under control until he was exhausted. But Farokh Engineer kept his calm, and was on the other end when S. Abid Ali hit the square cut to bring India to his first try in England, after a wait of almost four decades. India was literally at the top of the cricket world.
Arnold will say later: "The ball did not do as much in the air as everyone thought, but it certainly went off the field; obviously, what s & # 39; 39, is pbaded, it is that he transpired under the covers during the night and that it was green enough to give the ball the kind of purchase which I 'd like. It was really amazing, just one of those days. "
Only Eknath Solkar fought a fight, staying undefeated at 18. India lost all three tests, and Ajit Wadekar, the most successful Indian test captain so far. batsman, retired from the cricket test after being unfairly targeted.
Sunil Gavaskar played an unforgettable innings in one of the biggest race contests of a test match. Photo: Getty Images
4 September 1979. At The Oval , India 429 for 8
The last test at The Oval took place after an indifferent tour for the Indians: the first was lost, the second was saved thanks to the rain in a timely manner and the third was a draw The Indian team seemed to have kept the best for the last one.
Sunil Gavaskar played an unforgettable hand in one of the biggest races of a test match: Mike Brearley had sent India to the target of 438 points in 500 minutes – a apparently simple score in these times but almost
India had crossed 300 times in the last three tests of the series, of which Chetan Chauhan and Dilip Vengsarkar have taken the reins since the beginning. that Vijay Merchant and Mushtaq Ali had scored at Old Trafford in 1936.
It started slowly, but accelerated when the target arrived. He scored 221, and was the fourth Indian drummer to go out. The score was 389-just 51 to get with six wickets in hand.
What happened next will always be a topic of debate, as the last Indian drummers lost their temper but also fell prey to dubious referees. India finally found itself stuck at 429 for eight wickets, barely nine points. Gavaskar was then at the height of his powers – and without a doubt one of the greatest test drummers ever.
n 1996, Tendulkar had already made its mark in international cricket Photo: Getty Images
5 July 1996. In Trent Bridge, India 521 out out
The Third Test of the 1996 England tour. It was important because three of the four drummers who made up the biggest medium of India – Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly – joined them a little bit. later.
Indian cricket will never be the same again, especially since the four Fabs were preceded at the box office by Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir, MS Dhoni arriving at No. 7.
In 1996, Tendulkar His place in the big list was almost badured: Dravid and Ganguly had made their debut in Lord Ganguly's last test a century ago in its infancy.
In the first Indian innings, a ra mpaging Tendulkar and Ganguly scored 255 points for the third wicket. Both have marked centuries. Dravid came later in order, at No. 7, to get a clbady 84. True, it was an easy window for drummers. These sleeves were similar to a coat pbadage to the next generation.
The trio would later set up a head-to-heads victory at Headingley in 2002, with Dravid scoring 148, Tendulkar, 193 and Ganguly, 128.
India had held its They lost seven of the nine tournaments contested in 2011 and 2014. They had become a champion in the first decade of the new century, with Sourav Ganguly emerging as a
The old fear of playing abroad faded, and then the tour of 2011.
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VVSLaxman had an eminently forgettable tour, Sachin Tendulkar had only a few good Ganguly had retired, only Rahul Dravid stood bravely in the ruins, on average 74.43, with three centuries, tho his career would soon take a dive.
The new generation has not yet proven itself in English conditions – Suresh Raina made a dreadful tour in 2011 while Cheteshwar Pujara would prefer to forget the 2014 tour. Virat Kohli has not yet makes its mark in England.
Technically strong Murali Vijay and Ajinkya Rahane did better than most of their team. There are so many things about the tour that begins Tuesday
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