Wadekar's resiilience, Chandrasekhar's storm: How India conquered England shores for first time in 1971
Jun 16, 2025
As Team India practices and sweats it hard, they will have three captains and their teams to take inspiration from: Ajit Wadekar, who won India their first series in England back in 1971, Kapil Dev, who repeated the feat in 1986 and Rahul Dravid, who brought the Pataudi Trophy back home in 2007. Ahead of the series, let us look back at India's hard-fought 1-0 win in England 44 years back.