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It was over an hour since cricket history had been made at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chepauk, Madras on September 22, 1986. And the night shift at the
Indian Express office on Mount Road beckoned ominously.
My day had started at 8 in the morning, leaving home in Adyar to be in time for the early start on the fifth and final day of the Test to accommodate the 20 mandatory overs in the final hour. A scheduling snafu meant it was the whole day at the Test and then the whole night designing the sports pages which would be extra special that day. It’s a lingering regret I never preserved them.
Nearly a decade later, Bishan Singh Bedi s side came even closer against Bobby Simpson s Australia. The home team had lost its key players to Kerry Packer but was still a handful with speed gun Jeff Thomson, Gary Cosier and Peter Toohey in their ranks. It was a seaming track suited to the pacers, remembers Madan Lal, who took 5/72 wickets in the second innings. This was a rare Test in the Seventies where the pacers Madan Lal and Mohinder Amarnath took more wickets (10) than the spin trio of Bedi, Chandra and Prasanna (9).
India pursued 340 in the fourth innings. Sunil Gavaskar (113) led the chase. A newspaper report described it as a patient and chanceless innings where hardly a ball passed his broad bat. Gavaskar was technically sound as ever, recalls Madan Lal.
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Cameron Green’s emergence on the national stage has left many Australian cricket fans very excited about the future and what he can achieve as a pace-bowling batsman.
The great Keith Miller – him of the “pressure is having a Messerschmitt up your arse” fame – was Australia’s last genuine all-rounder.
As well as being a WWII fighter pilot, national sex symbol, and an Australian rules player in the VFL for St Kilda, Miller was a fixture in Australia’s XI from 1946-56.
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