India had lost 15 out of their 19 Tests on English soil before the tour, drawing only rest. In fact had lost 11 of their last 12, the run punctuated only by a rain-hit draw.
At the launch of Madhav Apte's autobiography , As Luck Would Have It, Gavaskar narrated a hilarious incident, which took place during India's tour to the Caribbean in 1971.
Solkar had been a cause for much pain for Boycott, having dismissed him a few times with his left-arm medium-pace, and the hurt showed.
Former South African fielding great Jonty Rhodes would have struggled to show his skills at forward short leg position, where the late Eknath Solkar excelled in the late 1960s and 1970s, feels Ravi Shastri.
Former India skipper Ajit Wadekar voiced confidence that Sachin Tendulkar will score his hundredth century at the Wankhede stadium, saying it was the batting maestro's "destiny" to achieve the feat at his homeground
India's misery was compounded by the fact that Bhagwat Chandrasekar suffered a thumb injury while bowling his 10th over on Day One and did not bowl again.
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