Chail located 49 km from Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, is the world’s highest cricket ground. It is said that Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala was incensed when Lord Kitchener refused him entry to Shimla. The Maharaja built his summer capital at Chail. The cricket loving Maharaja built a cricket ground in 1893 after levelling a hilltop. …
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
