Death, Disaster and Redemption: England in India 84-85 part 1
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In the first of a three episode mini-series, Daniel Norcross is alongside Vic Marks, Peter Baxter and Prakash Wakankar to look back at England's turbulent tour of India in 1984/85.
Just hours after the England team had arrived India's prime minister, Indira Gandhi, was assassinated. What did this mean for the England team? What was it like to be in New Delhi? They discuss everything from restlessly staying in their hotels, to where they were when they were told the news, and whether this meant that any cricket would be played at all.
Hear the first person accounts of Vic Marks who was part of the England squad, Peter Baxter who was producing TMS from India, and Prakash Wakankar who was celebrating his birthday in Pune.
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| 0:43.0 | Hello I'm Daniel Norcross. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome to the Testmount Special Podcast and to what I think we can call a mini series. |
| 0:50.0 | A three episode special looking back at England's tour of India in 1984-85. |
| 0:55.0 | Now you could be forgiven for thinking that this is a typical nostalgic look back to |
| 1:00.1 | yester year but this wasn't a typical test series there was not a typical |
| 1:04.6 | backdrop to the two and a half three months of cricket in fact there wasn't |
| 1:09.0 | anything too typical about any of it. |
| 1:18.0 | Mrs. Gandy is assassinated, her son takes over. As he now goes on to the Macwood |
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