†INDIA v PAKISTAN 1986-87

At Calcutta, February 18

At Hyderabad, March 20

At Pune, March 22

At Nagpur, March 24

At Jamshedpur, March 26

At Madras, February 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Toss: India.

Gavaskar brought a sense of occasion to the eleventh consecutive draw between these two countries when, with a delectable late cut off Ijaz Faqih, he scored the 58th run needed for his 10,000 runs in Test cricket

A run of eleven successive draws between India and Pakistan was dramatically arrested by the quality, or rather lack of quality, of a Test match pitch designed to produce a result