India's finest cricket hour gets the movie treatment

83 tells a classic underdog story and tries to make myths out of memory

Lord's 1983 - 17 years later

After recalling one of the most deplorable chapters in Indian cricket only yesterday, I am happy to go down memory lane again today and cover a much more pleasant episode

When being an India fan doesn't mean being filled with despair

Three painful partnerships, but only one - in a World Cup final - has a happy ending

India vs West Indies World Cup final: the year we grew up

Being at India's first World Cup win and watching the uninhibited celebrations that followed was an unforgettable experience for an 18-year-old

Joel Garner: '1983 World Cup was the biggest disappointment of my career'

Small chases are always tricky - even for two-time world champions against a team of no-hopers, as Joel Garner found out

The sightseers who won a world title

India's 1983 World Cup squad was more keen to take in the sights of London than worry about facing Marshall and Co

The summer it all changed

The 1983 World Cup was a journey of self-discovery not just for India, but for a sportswriter whose career gamble was vindicated after the final

Kapil Dev gets Viv Richards at the 1983 World Cup final

The catch that brought down a titan, and made Indian cricket's most unlikely achievement possible

Mohinder Amarnath ambles to glory in the 1983 World Cup final

Amiable, apologetic, lazy, relaxed Mohinder Amarnath put in a Man-of-the-Match performance in the 1983 World Cup final

Gordon Greenidge loses his off stump to Balwinder Sandhu in the 1983 World Cup final

Sandhu lands the punch that makes the knockout possible

The big upset

No one, including the Indians, thought India would beat West Indies to the title

When an editor ate his words

India's World Cup victory in 1983 prompted some unforgettable banter between their manager and a magazine editor

The joker in the pack

Unassuming, undemonstrative Jimmy turned the 1983 semi-final and final India's way

Kapil gets Viv

The catch that made India's World Cup win possible

Greenidge loses his off stump

The third World Cup final: Sandhu lands the punch that makes the knockout possible

The year everything changed

The win that transformed Indian cricket sending it on an upswing that lasts to this day

The 1983 World Cup final on TV - watching, hoping, praying

When a nation came together to view a miracle

That catch, that inswinger

Kapil picks up Viv, Sandhu deceives Greendige... and other key moments that turned the 1983 World Cup final India's way

Eighty-three once more

A look back at the magical, surreal summer that ended with Kapil Dev raising aloft the World Cup

BCCI kept out of World Cup anniversary party

The 25th anniversary celebrations of India's 1983 World Cup-winning campaign will not involve the Board of Control for Cricket in India in any capacity

Kapil's magic grab

How a running catch changed a World Cup final, and possibly even the game

Mohinder ambles to glory

Amiable, apologetic, lazy, relaxed - Mohinder Amarnath was all of those, yet put in a Man-of-the-Match performance in the 1983 World Cup final

India stun the world

How the rank outsiders who had won only one match in their previous two World Cups dethroned the mightiest outfit of the day on the biggest stage

An icon 17 years ago, a marked man now

Exactly 17 years to the date, at around midnight I was rudelywoken up by excited relatives screaming 'We have won the World Cup'

Viv Richard's mistimed hook and India's ODI windfall