1974

India's all-time low

Jul 16, 2011: At Lord's in 1974, India were bowled out in a little over an hour for 42, in a series which started full of promise but soon fell apart

Summer of 42 revisited

Jun 24, 2000: For all the ignominious defeats that Indian cricket suffered in the international arena in the fifties and sixties, these unhappy events seemed to be a thing of the past by the time the seventies rolled around

Second Test Match

England v India

1975: This was an extraordinarily one-sided contest, yet for three days India, handicapped because Chandrasekhar injured a thumb on the first day, put up gallant resistance, but compelled to follow-on late on Saturday evening 327 runs behind, they