Fifty years ago — for that is when this happened — you could bring an elephant into a ground where an international match was taking place. The England team sprint for the pavilion. The umpire was in the ideal position to judge.”Till that Oval win India had lost nearly thrice as many Tests as they had won; after that, they won more Tests than they lost. “I remember that elephant, a baby elephant I think it was,” recalled Chandrasekhar. They too might agree it happened just the other day, and you don’t need to have the memory of an elephant to recall the details.

Source: The Hindu July 06, 2021 21:45 UTC