For sports lovers, some days are like permanent markers. Time cannot scrub them off. Rather, with every passing year, they find a fonder place in the suitcase of memories. For every cricket-loving Indian of a certain age, June 25, 1983 is that kind of day.
It was a day “when cannon fodder turned cannon”, London’s Sunday Times reported. It was a day when “the World Cup no-hopers stopped the Calypso kings in their tracks,” said England great Denis Compton in Sunday Express. It was a day when the unthinkable happened. And cricket in India was never the same again.
