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    "title": "When Gavaskar Shocked the Nation...",
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    "editor1": "<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>7th June 1975&nbsp;<\/strong>- A historic day for world cricket. On this day the first match of the inaugural world cup was played between India and England at famous Lord&#39;s ground.&nbsp;A new chapter begins and no one knew at that time that this&nbsp;tournament&nbsp;will become one of the most popular sports event in coming years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">The excitement was at its peek as the home team England won the toss and elected to bat first. Madan Lal registered his&nbsp;name in the record book of bowling the first ball of the world cup whereas Dennis Amiss faced it.&nbsp;<strong>England took the full advantage of Indis&#39;s weak pace attack and infront of the home crowd scored a mammoth 334\/4 in 60 overs.<\/strong> Thanks to Dennis Amiss who entertained the crowd with a brilliant century (137)&nbsp;and thus became the first player to score a century in the world cup. He was well supported by Fletcher (68) on the other end and a&nbsp;quick fifty by CM Old (51* off 30 balls) ensured England to cross 300 plus. Abid Ali turned took 2\/58 and turned&nbsp;out to be the most successful bowler for India.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">With a big target to chase,&nbsp;Everyone was expecting an interesting match with Indian batting centered around&nbsp;Sunil Gavaskar, G Vishwanath,&nbsp;A Gaekwad, Brijesh Patel etc. But to everyone&#39;s surprize Indian team gave a shock as they scored just 132\/3 from&nbsp;60 overs and lost the match by a massive 202 runs. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Legendry Sunil Gavaskar&nbsp;played one of his worst and the most controversial ODI inning of all time as he&nbsp;made 36* in 174 delivery with just 1 boundary.&nbsp;It seems that team India was playing a test match and no efforts were made to chase the score. Vishwanath added quick 37 from 59 balls but it was too late.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">The inning was too low as per Gavaskar&#39;s standard that he later admited in his book <strong>&#39;Sunny Days&#39; <\/strong>that it was by far the worst innings he had ever played.<strong>&quot;It was agony. Sometimes, I felt like moving away from the stumps, so that I would be bowled,&quot; he confessed.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>&ldquo;It left a very, very bad taste. He let the team down, the spectators down, the spirit of the game down. I don&rsquo;t know what happened to him.&rdquo;&nbsp;Srinivas Venkataraghvan (Captain in 1975 World Cup)&nbsp;in a TV interview<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Ted Dexter, the former&nbsp;England&nbsp;captain who was commentating for the BBC, felt that Venkat should have pulled out Gavaskar from the field. Dexter&nbsp;said: &ldquo;Nothing short of a vote of censure by the&nbsp;ICC&nbsp;would have satisfied me if I had paid good money through the turnstiles only to be short-changed by such a performance.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">We were all very surprised by the way he was batting. It was difficult to say what he was up to. Nobody, not even captain S Venkataraghavan, sent any instructions to him to change his tactics. When I was with him in the middle, we didn&#39;t discuss about the team&#39;s strategy or his or mine. I was too junior to say anything to him. I myself was conscious to prove my own ability - Anshuman Gaekwad&nbsp;(Opening Partner in that inning)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">No one expected the Indians to put up such a miserable show, and Gavaskar was the chief culprit in this sordid drama - Denis Compton<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">The team manager for 1975 World Cup, G S Ramchand, reported Gavaskar to the BCCI for such slow batting. He also reported that this inning not only demoralised the younger members of the side but was also against India&#39;s best interests.&nbsp;Gavaskar was asked by BCCI to explain and justify the tactics he had employed against England. However,&nbsp;Gavaskar was given the benefit of the doubt.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">The inning shocked the entire cricket fraternity across the globe and is a dark spot in otherwise a golden career of &quot;Little master&quot;,...&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n",
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