Kirti Azad detained, questioned at London’s Heathrow airport

Last Updated: Saturday, July 6, 2013, 18:28

BJP MP and former cricketer who was a member of the 1983 World Cup winning squad, Kirti Azad, was on Saturday allegedly detained at the Heathrow Airport in London for two hours before being allowed to board a Delhi-bound flight.

30 years of 1983 World Cup win: How India turned it around...

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 25, 2013, 10:37

Considered unworthy of participating in the World Cup by a noted Wisden journalist, India had done the unexpected and created history.

30 years of 1983 World Cup Win: Anecdotes

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 25, 2013, 09:17

Meanwhile, the boys may have grown up to become men (or even grandfathers in some case) but their closed door chats, closely guarded tales and anecdotes which transpired within the team on that momentous occasion was also still fresh on their minds.

IPL 2012: Ravi Shastri takes dig at Kirti Azad

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 23, 2012, 20:58

Former India captain Ravi Shastri on Wednesday took a dig at his World Cup-winning teammate Kirti Azad whose name has been removed from the BCCI`s list of one-time payment beneficiaries apparently for questioning the lack of accountability and transparency in the IPL.

I have grown up admiring Kapil Dev: Kevin O`Brien

Last Updated: Friday, May 4, 2012, 17:45

Born almost a year after the Indian cricket team lifted the 1983 World Cup, Ireland allrounder Kevin O`Brien said it was Kapil Dev whom he had always looked up to as a budding cricketer.

1983 triumph changed course of Indian cricket: Tendulkar

Last Updated: Thursday, February 17, 2011, 00:00

The epochal triumph of the Kapil Dev-led Indian team in the 1983 cricket World Cup changed the course of game in the country forever and is perhaps the greatest-ever feat in its history, says senior batsman Sachin Tendulkar.

Sandhu tipped Patil on facing Marshall in `83 WC

Last Updated: Thursday, January 27, 2011, 00:00

It was Balwinder Sandhu`s reassuring words that helped Sandeep Patil become more confident about the prospect of facing dreaded late West Indian quick Malcolm Marshall on the cricket pitch during India`s triumphant World Cup campaign in 1983, according to a soon-to-be-launched book.