Death, Disaster and Redemption: England in India 84-85 part 2
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In the second of a three episode mini-series, Daniel Norcross is alongside Vic Marks, Peter Baxter, Prakash Wakankar and Jonathan Agnew to look back at England's turbulent tour of India in 1984/85.
This episode begins at the end of England's first test against India in Wankhede, but 3rd December 1984 is remembered for a very different reason. The Bhopal disaster occurred. They discuss what is was like to be close to such a catastrophic event and how it affected the atmosphere inside the stadiums when playing cricket.
Switching focus back to the cricket, Vic recalls the beginning of England's fight-back in the second test of the series in Delhi.
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| 0:44.0 | Hello I'm Daniel Norcross. |
| 0:46.0 | Welcome to the Testmat Special Podcast and to what I think we can call a mini series. |
| 0:51.0 | A three episode special looking back at England's tour of India in 1984-85. |
| 0:55.0 | Now you can be forgiven for thinking that this is a typical nostalgic look back to |
| 1:00.7 | yesteryear but this wasn't a typical test series there was not a typical |
| 1:05.2 | backdrop to the two and a half three months of cricket in fact there wasn't |
| 1:09.5 | anything too typical about any of it. Mrs. Gandy is assassinated, her son takes over. |
| 1:19.0 | As he now goes on to the Macwood and on the community are spilling over into violence. Buses have been burned and seeks attacked and many have gone into hiding. |
| 1:37.0 | Ellison now, pose that first ball to other rutin who cuts and get that single and that is rather than hundred. |
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