THE GAME CHANGER
THE GAME CHANGER India's 1983 World Cup triumph shaped the future of Cricket across the landscape For sports lovers, some days are like permanent markers. Time cannot scrub them off. Rather, with every passing year, they find a fonder place in the suitcase of memories. For every cricket-loving Indian of a certain age, June 25, 1983 is that kind of day. It was a day "when cannon fogger turned cannon", London's Sunday Times reported. It was a day when "the World Cup no-hopers stopped the Calypso kings in their tracks," said England great Denis Compton in Sunday Express. It was a day when the unthinkable happened. And cricket in India was never the same again. The World Cup triumph - the first ever in cricket - came when the country was at the cusp of a technological revolution. In the 1970s, even in the early 1980s, international cricket was primarily about listening. Test matches were physically watched by thousands in packed stadiums in the met...