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Mind you, there are those who will insist that both scoreboards are not strictly accurate it was actually 42-9 and 36-9. For, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar did not bat in the second innings at Lord’s, being injured, and Mohammad Shami retired hurt at Adelaide in 2020.
Did anyone see it coming?
That is not the only coincidence in the two (in)famous collapses. In both cases, India had arrived on tour being seen as a very competitive side – in 1974, the Wadekar-lead Indian team had won three series in a row in 1971 in the West Indies and England, and 1972-73 against England at home, and was known for having two of the best young batsmen around Gavaskar and Vishwanath and of course was famed for its spin prowess Bedi, Prasanna, Chandrasekhar. And although the Indians lost the first Test at Manchester, they competed stubbornly right till the very end, with Gavaskar scoring what he considered to be his best Test century in the first innings. Even at Lord’s, they replied to England�
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To be clear, no one died. It wasn t a day-darkening, world-ending event.even if I did want to stab the screen with a breakfast fork when Captain Kohli sliced his drive to slip. A total of 36 is a cricketing shocker, but in the larger scheme of things, it is rather less important than your second cousin twice removed coming down with Covid. Pandemics bring perspective.
Technology being what it was in 1974, I heard rather than saw India fold up for 42, the previous lowest score, on the radio. The Summer of 42 is what college wits called it, after a mildly titillating movie of the same name released a couple of years earlier. Unlike Virat Kohli s men, one of those vintage losers managed the distinction of double figures: Eknath Solkar made eighteen. He even hit a six. Then, as now, we didn t lose all ten wickets because our No. 11 was injured.