Cricket History - England Tour Of India 1984-85

Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, had been assassinated on October 31, 1984. On November 26, Percy Norris, the British Deputy High Commissioner in Bombay, hosted the touring England team for a d

Mohammad Azharuddin made his debut at Calcutta. By the end of the series he became the first to score a hundred in each of his first three Tests (110 at Calcutta, 48 and 105 at Madras, 122 and 54* at Kanpur). He remains the only one.

England won the Madras Test by nine wickets largely due to Neil Foster's 6/104 and 5/59 on a flat pitch and double-hundreds from Graeme Fowler (201) and Mike Gatting (207). England also won the Charminar Challenge ODI Cup as well, bby a 4-1 margin.

Test Series Result

• First Test, Bombay - India won by 8 wickets
• Second Test, Delhi - England won by 8 wickets
• Third Test, Calcutta - Match Drawn
• Fourth Test, Madras - England won by 9 wickets
• Fifth Test, Kanpur - Match Drawn

Cricket History - India Tour Of England 1982