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Last Updated: Jun 26, 2021 07:16 IST Sachin Tendulkar recalls India’s historic 1983 World Cup win at Lord’s Sachin Tendulkar remembered India’s 1983 World Cup triumph as he turned 38 on Friday. India defeated WI to lift the coveted trophy
1983 Indian Cricket Team
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar got nostalgic as he recalled Team India’s 1983 World Cup triumph on Friday. On June 25, 1983, an Indian team led by the charismatic Kapil Dev lifted their first World Cup trophy by defeating the then mighty West Indies at Lord’s, the ‘Mecca of Cricket’.
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The Caribbean team reached its peak of success in the late 70s and early 80s under the captaincy of Clive Lloyd, who won back-to-back World Cup triumphs in 1975 and 1979 respectively. In fact, the Windies secured their third straight final berth in 1983 but went down to the then underdog India.
Taking to the micro-blogging site, Sachin Tendulkar posted a picture of the members of the Indian team popularly known as ‘Kapil’s Devils’ that helped the nation win its first Cricket World Cup. He later referred to it as the day that changed the history of Indian cricket forever.
Besides, I will always remember the excitement and joy that he (and yesteryear cricket enthusiasts, including himself) felt at the fall of every wicket and the pride of India winning the coveted trophy, added the master blaster.
A day that changed Indian 🏏 history forever! I will always remember the excitement and joy we felt at the fall of every wicket and the pride of winning the 🇮🇳 World Cup. #1983WorldCup #nostalgia #TeamIndia pic.twitter.com/GJtTaoFCgc — Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) June 25, 2021
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Even the passionate Indian cricket fans were on the same page with the little master. Here’s what they had to say.
These are guys who know how to win the playoffs. ’83 and then ’85. — Baron Nigodi (@BaronNigodi) June 25, 2021
Super sir 😍 Hope ur old memories made you happy😌 — Yuna (SEMI HIATUS) (@Yuna_Chillz) June 25, 2021
The rise of new champions in history is a matter of pride for the Indian team. 🇮🇳🇮🇮
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India were restricted to a paltry total of 183 after being asked to bat first with opener Chris Srikanth top scoring for Kapil Dev and Co. With 33. In reply, batting legend Sir Vivian Richards took over after early wickets fell into disrepair. His team’s run. Viv Richards meant business as soon as he made his way to 22 yards and took off from the word ‘go’ to score a quick 28-ball 33, including seven fours, and lead the West Indies to their record third World Cup victory when it looked like he would be playing alone, a brilliant catch by Indian captain Kapil Dev. That ended his stay at the crease.
Madan Lal stunned Viv Rickards with a short delivery and played an errant hook shot as the ball went miles up in the air. Standing in the middle, Kapil Dev dashed to deep mid-wicket. The ‘Haryana Storm’ ran back and kept his balance under the ball, as the big man had no choice but to return to the pavilion, he took a brilliant catch out of nowhere and it proved to be the final nail. Coffin. I can only remember that day in a flash for the sheer power of the game at that time. A Sony Trinitron color TV encased in a sturdy wooden box, my father’s walrus-mustached friend Mukulesh in a bush shirt, his sari-clad wife Shobha, our new house in Bombay still smelling of fresh paint, my mosaic-tiled bedroom, the sound of cricket commentary, the smell of roasted cumin from the kitchen, the glasses The noise, my parents cheering, the fireworks that Sunday evening.
“The memory of things past is not necessarily the memory of things as they were,” said Marcel Proust. Did that day happen the way I remember it, or did I create those memories over the course of several iterations? I’m not sure, but my parents can confirm more details. I was fourth. It was June 25, 1983 – the day India won the World Cup at Lord’s.
It was a day that changed Indian cricket, a day that changed India. It replaced Sachin Tendulkar. “I took permission from my parents and partied till late at night,” he said. “After winning the 1983 World Cup I was inspired to start the game with a [hard] ball season. If that hadn’t happened, things might have been different for me.”
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Years later, I would hear about that day. An angry Viv Richards, Kapil Dev running back to catch him, Jimmy Amarnath’s man-of-the-match performance and thousands of Indians occupying the pitch – these vignettes are told over and over, embellished with every telling. It was years until I saw a replay of Kapil’s catch, but I could have sworn I saw it on loop. No father in the 1980s ever tired of talking to his kids about the magical, morale-boosting victory. India’s leading news magazine at the time – India Today – carried its cover story: “Miracle at Lord’s: Indian cricket’s finest hour.”
And what a miracle it was. Capable only of “a surprise or two” – in the words of captain Kapil – the team overcame odds of 50-1 to rule the home of cricket. For a poor nation, reeling from the misery of crisis and Nehruvian socialism, cricket is less a game, more a metaphor for life. Nowhere is that metaphor more apparent than in India’s conflicted relationship with Lords, along with the foundations of race, color, class and colonialism. Lord’s was seen as the ultimate bastion of imperialism – a private gentlemen’s club with an emphasis on order and rules and a white, privileged, male view of life. To win the World Cup at Lord’s is to triumph over everything.
Kapil Dev catches Viv Richards in the 1983 Cricket World Cup final and Indian fans celebrate. Photo: Colorsport/Rex
Those tensions were evident right from the start: when India was set to play its first Test against England in India. The series, originally planned for 1930-31, coincided with the outbreak of non-cooperation movements in India, including the Salt Satyagraha. When Mahatma Gandhi began a march from Ahmedabad’s Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi to protest against draconian British laws on salt production – which, he said, would “shake the foundations of the British Empire” – the English cricket team in India was outraged. Will visit the country. The trip had to be cancelled.
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The two teams then met two years later with the All India team – as it was then known – at Lord’s and traveling to England to play several county matches. “While Gandhi was rotting in jail, the Indian cricket team was selected to tour England,” writes Ramachandra Guha in A Corner of a Foreign Field. “Interestingly two Indians appeared for their counties against the tourists. Duleepsinhaji played for Sussex and Nawab of Pataudi for Worcestershire. Both refused to feature in All India colours, hoping to be selected for England’s winter tour of Australia. Both were selected though Duleep dropped out due to illness. Such anomalies were possible when India was still under British rule. However, it is notable that he was not asked to play for England in the lone Test against India in 1932.
As anti-British sentiment ran rampant in India, the Indian and English teams presented themselves before King George V at Lord’s. Jahangir Khan – who appeared in the 1932 Lord’s Test – said the Indians were “a bit nervous because they had never played a Test match and there were so many people shouting”. England won by 158 runs, but not before the Indians created a stir with three quick wickets on a spirited first-day pitch. India’s bowling is standard, but their batting is not, says England wicketkeeper Les Ames. If “two good Indians” – Duleepsinhji and the Nawab of Pataudi – were in the team, “it could have been a different story for the match.”
Interestingly, three decades before Duleep and Nawab were eligible but not selected, the MCC decided to include Duleep’s uncle Ranjitsinji in the Test against Australia at Lord’s in the 1895-96 season. MCC President Lord Harris believed that only “local” cricketers should be selected. “It’s either gross hypocrisy or outright racism, depending on how you look at it,” Guha writes. “Because Harris was born in the Caribbean.”
But Ranji was later selected for the Test at Old Trafford, because of the Lancashire committee