Wadekar allows six overs of medium pace before turning to spin. Luckhurst is run out, but England are 24-1 when Chandra comes to bowl the third ball of the last over to Edrich.
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He has planned a googly, but Sardesai utters something at the last moment.
“Mill Reef daalo”.
Over the years, the sentence became part of Indian cricket folklore.
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Sardesai was referring to the thoroughbred racehorse that had won the Greenham Stakes, the Epsom Derby, and the Eclipse Stakes that year.
On Vijay Arora's birth anniversary, here are some memories.
I first saw him in Ramayan, where he played Indrajit. Easily one of the most impressive performances of the serial.
Indrajit created an impression on the young me.
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Those days, there was only one channel, Doordarshan.
This was the era before they started the Friday night movie. There was one Hindi movie, on Saturday evening (this was later scheduled to Sunday evening).
We also had Chitrahaar and Rangoli.
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Despite this very limited avenue to mainstream entertainment, Vijay Arora kept finding me (or the other way round).
The most famous of all hits was Yaadon ki Baaraat. Several songs featured him, of which I chose this one (could have been another song).
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