The 1983 World Cup victory was a momentous event for India and based on many specialists, it was the second that revolutionised the game within the nation. Former West Indies skipper Clive Llyod, who was on the shedding finish within the remaining of the competitors, stated that the end result was one thing that the game benefited from. This yr would be the fortieth anniversary of the well-known win and in an interplay on Backstage With Boria, Llyod had an attention-grabbing remark in regards to the end result.

“Bowling India out for 183 was a very good effort, and on most days, we would easily chase this score down. But for cricket, however, it was a great result. It helped Indian cricket turn into something fundamentally different and world cricket, too, benefitted from this turnaround,” he stated.

The West Indies entered the finals because the favoured, having gained the earlier two world cups in 1975 and 1979. They completed first of their group with 5 victories and one defeat, the loss coming towards India. They had thrashed Pakistan by eight wickets within the semi-finals.

India defied all kinds of expectations and odds to clinch their first-ever World Cup title. An underdog story to the core, it’s a story retold to each technology with pleasure. It is an occasion that triggered the large cricket craze that has the nation in its grip to this present day and was maybe step one of India’s rise in cricket as a superpower. The picture of a smiling ‘Haryana Hurricane’ Kapil Dev holding the silverware nonetheless is the crown jewel of Dev’s legendary legacy and Indian cricket’s historical past.

“Even when we beat the Indians convincingly in the winter of 1983, we knew that it was only a matter of time before they became a cricketing superpower. The self-belief the World Cup victory had given Indian cricket had little parallel. It was great for your cricket,” he added.

(With ANI inputs)