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00:00This is the city of Chennai, capital of the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India, formerly known
00:12as Madras. It was here in September 1986, in temperatures that hovered around 40 degrees
00:20Celsius and 80% humidity, that one of the most remarkable cricket matches in the history of the
00:26game was played between India and Australia. This is a story of extreme physical endurance.
00:39Because I was cramping that much, I just couldn't release. I was screaming to all hell.
00:45It is also a story about pride and passion. Hey, you guys think this is one day cricket or what?
00:50This is test cricket. We are facing follow on. Blah, blah, blah. All of us just got blasted.
00:55There were angry on-field confrontations between players.
00:59I'm going to stick this back where the sun don't shine and he bent over and said, well, do it.
01:04And heated arguments with umpires. I'm telling you, calm down. Don't talk to me like this. I'm
01:11telling you. Oh, he can't send me off. Then I thought to myself, well, maybe he can.
01:17Then, to top it all, for only the second time in the history of test cricket,
01:21it ended in a tie. It's a tie. The match has ended in a tie. It's an unbelievable result.
01:29Oh!
01:37No.
01:43No!
01:45No!
01:47No!
01:50No!
01:51No!
01:57Ryder leads his Australians out in the unofficial test which they won against an Indian 11 at Bombay.
02:04Prior to the 1980s, contact between India and Australia in cricket terms had been rather sparse.
02:12The first tour by any Australian side to India was in 1935-36,
02:18when a team comprised of some first-class and retired test cricketers
02:22made an unofficial visit under the patronage of the Maharaja of Bhardyala.
02:26Ryder the Aussie skipper plays the Indian bowling with great confidence
02:31and knocks off a century on the first day, but he finds that the garland awarded him cramps his tie.
02:35It was Richie Beno who led an Australian side on the first full official tour of India and Pakistan in 1959-60
02:46in what was an arduous three-month campaign.
02:51There was quite a deal of illness to the players and sickness.
02:55Quite serious illness.
02:57Gordon Rourke, Gavin Stevens, Lindsay Klein suffered from hepatitis.
03:02Gavin Stevens didn't play first-class cricket again.
03:04Tours of the subcontinent were not relished by Australian cricketers during the 1950s and 60s
03:11because of the difficult conditions.
03:14Although Bill Lorry's 1969 tour turned out to be a success on the field, it was marred by a host of off-field problems, crowd disturbances and riots.
03:26They were tough tours because of poor accommodation, because of uncertainty with the food, uncertainty with hydration,
03:33a lack of education from the Australian authorities about how to tackle a tour of India and Pakistan.
03:40Then in 1979, Kim Hughes led an inexperienced Australian side on another full tour of India.
03:47That's a good shot from Hughes.
03:49That's true.
03:51We're a very young cricket side.
03:53It was during the World Series Cricket Revolution.
03:56And so there's a lot of big names missing from the Australian team.
04:00The only one who seemed to flourish over there was Kim Hughes because he ate everything and ate all the local food, you know, the curries, etc.
04:07And he flourished.
04:09I think he put on weight.
04:10All the rest of us were eating naan bread and bananas and we struggled with our weight.
04:15But I think everyone got different bouts of delhi belly at different stages on that tour.
04:22I think it's just unavoidable as, you know, Westerners go into that sort of culture.
04:28By the time Australia embarked on their next tour of India in 1986, Alan Border was the captain of the Australian team.
04:36The crowds can be a bit boisterous, but, you know, as long as you go in there expecting a hard time and not take things too easily, we should do reasonably well.
04:48The mid-1980s was a low point in Australian cricket.
04:52Reeling from the defection of 16 players to rebel tours of apartheid South Africa, Australia had won only three of its last 25 test matches and had not won a test series for nearly three years.
05:05And so to 1986 where again there's a crisis and again there's Bob Simpson digging in deep for Australian cricket.
05:12I think the point missing at present is there's not quite the number of senior players around who had vast experience to pass on their knowledge.
05:20I think that's missing.
05:21Former Australian test captain Bob Simpson was brought in as cricket manager.
05:26His mission? To help Alan Border rebuild the Australian test team.
05:33It was a bit like a jigsaw puzzle. We set aside a group of five players who we thought had the attitude and announce and the stubbornness to be, you know, fine test creators.
05:43One, of course, is Alan Border, Craig McDermott, David Boone, Geoff Mahush and Steve Waugh.
05:48And they were the first five that went into the jigsaw puzzle.
05:52Myself as captain and Bob Simpson as coach, we felt that we were starting to develop a good nuclear.
05:58So going to that tour of India, we had high expectations that we could hold our own.
06:04The first test match of the 1986 series was played in Madras at the MH Idambadam Stadium at the very time of the year when the hot and humid conditions were at their worst.
06:19It was the beginning of the northeast monsoon season.
06:22It's never easy to play cricket in India at any time of the year.
06:25But this particular time in the south of India is very confronting for athletes.
06:30The conditions are incredibly innovating and they take a very big toll on the players, not only on their bodies, but on their minds as well. Very tough conditions.
06:39We hopped off the plane and we had to walk across the tarmac midnight and our shoes, well, we could smell the rubber burning off the tarmac.
06:47We just couldn't believe how hot it is because we hear all the old blokes talking about it.
06:51But you don't really actually know how hot it is until you get there.
06:55It was so humid and sapping and draining and training sessions were intense because we were training much longer than the Indian side.
07:02They thought we were pretty crazy. They thought we left all our energy on the practice park.
07:06But that was a new attitude that we believe we had to train hard to improve and we just got on with the job.
07:12What I remember is that we had just come back from a very successful tour of England.
07:16We had beaten England 2-0. We should have maybe won the 3-0.
07:19The best thing for Indian cricket at that time was that, you know, we had Kapil Dev, our captain, who was very, very positive.
07:26He would rather lose, you know, than go for a draw. So he would put that, you know, in everybody's mind.
07:33You know, he would have us in a positive frame of mind all the time that you've got to win a test match.
07:38I think perhaps my style of cricket was different than Indian what used to play at that time.
07:46We all Indian was very subdued cricketer. I think I was come out so aggressive suddenly.
07:53His only mission was to make sure that he instills this thing in the boys that you've got to be positive,
08:00you've got to beat this Australian side. And if you beat this Australian side, I think we'll be number one in the world.
08:05We knew we were gelling together as a good side. And part of the 86-87 season was building up towards the World Cup in India the following year.
08:17This Madras test marked a remarkable milestone for the Indian batting maestro, Sunil Gavaskar.
08:24It was his 100th consecutive test match for India.
08:28For somebody who didn't take the kind of training that the others did as seriously, I think it was something to play 100 consecutive test matches
08:37without really having any sort of, you know, niggles like a pulled muscle and all that.
08:41And I would always joke with the guys, look, you guys do all this 20 laps of the ground stuff and I do maybe just two laps of the ground.
08:47And maybe that's the reason my muscles are up, you know, OK, while yours get too stiff.
08:53Australia almost went into this test match minus one of its key spin bowlers.
08:58Well, I unfortunately had a pizza the night before the game. Three hours after I'd eaten my pizza, I thought my world was going to end.
09:06So I did go into the match a little bit ill and that probably stayed with me for a lot of the game.
09:11With temperatures around 40 degrees Celsius and 80% humidity forecast for the next five days, the toss was all important.
09:20If we had lost the toss, I still don't know whether I would have got on the park.
09:23But the toss went up and Liz had come in and suggested that we were batting.
09:27So I immediately fell back on the couch I was on or the table I was on and proceeded to spend the day there, of course.
09:34I don't think I've ever seen or played in a test match where the conditions over five days were so appalling as that Madras test match.
09:45It was terrible. You know, the humidity was bad. We're there at the wrong time of the year.
09:50That Buckingham Canal outside the ground stunk every time there's a breeze come up.
09:57The Buckingham Canal runs right alongside the stadium.
10:00It was an old waterway for traders in the time of the British that has now become an open sewer as a result of the sprawl of urban Madras overflowing into the nearby Bay of Bengal.
10:11The waft that was coming across the ground from the Buckingham Canal where there was sort of these mysterious gases and green slimes sort of slowly moving around the ground in this canal.
10:20It's suffocating enough but then as the breeze comes from the wrong direction, the Buckingham Canal does play its role just to add to the, well, the mysteries of India, if you like.
10:32Just the stench coming out of the open sewer that is the Buckingham Canal.
10:36The opening ball of the series was sent down by Indian skipper Kapil Dev but only rarely did he beat the bat.
10:48Geoffrey Robert Marsh and I decided that Australia really get off to a good start so no matter what we had to do we had to try and do that for everybody else because it was really, really hot on that first day and we had to continue through.
11:02Openers Marsh and Boone settled in quickly as the temperature hovered in the high 30s. Marsh even prompted Dev to remove himself from the attack after only his third over.
11:12This time Geoff Marsh manages to beat the two men on the outside.
11:1620 year old paceman Chetan Sharma tried to extract life and paid the penalty.
11:21Next ball, Boone repeated the treatment as the Australians built an opening stand of 48.
11:31Dev had introduced spin after only seven overs and he was finally rewarded.
11:41Marsh on 22 played across Yadav's line and top edge to the Indian captain.
11:46We had pretty well established our opening pair with Boone and Marsh and who was going to fill that pivotal number three role.
12:04I get this call from the skipper, Alan Borda, come to my room, went to his room, he said sit down, you want a drink? Thanks.
12:11So we sit down, had a Pepsi or water or something, we're just talking and he said right, you're my number three for the next couple of years. Do you want it?
12:18And he locked me down the barrel, do you want it? I said, well I've been waiting two years.
12:22The thing that sort of swayed me was that he was a very good player with spin bowling, used his feet very, very well, had all the shots, you know, was here to advance down the wicket to get after spinners.
12:32And so that's, in my mind, tipped the scales in his way.
12:36A number three position, just think of the people who batted number three for Australia in the past.
12:40And think about what you do, you've got to do the stuff that they did.
12:44I don't keep thinking of Bradmans and Chapels and all these type of stuff, you know.
12:48He was absolutely rapt to be given the opportunity again to bat at three, pivotal role.
12:53He knew he had my confidence and support, so I think he left the room just, you know, ten foot tall, bulletproof, ready for action.
13:02After one hour of talking to me about what's required as a test cricketer and as a test batsman, a number three batsman,
13:09I walked out of that room feeling ten foot tall. I just thought I was invincible.
13:14I just felt Alan Border put a red coat around my neck and put number S on the front.
13:18Newly promoted Dean Jones made the most of his chance and punished anything loose.
13:22Nice job.
13:25David Boone was Australia's first day hero with a mostly patient but sometimes savage innings of 122.
13:32Sharma seemed determined to expose Boone's hookshot, but with no success.
13:38It does the same thing again and gets over with it again.
13:41As Jones and Boone went on the attack, the stifling heat took its toll.
13:46It was so hot and the energy levels were just completely sapping out of us
13:51because it's a bit like a tennis player playing a serve and volley game.
13:55I knew it was hot. Halfway through between lunch and tea, when Chris Rietkamp, a local, he said,
14:02you know how hot it is here, Dino, today? I said, no.
14:05He said, when I was driving here this morning, I saw the rats running away.
14:09All the local rats. I know it's hot then.
14:13The heat in Madras. Chennai, there are only three weathers. Hot, hotter, hottest.
14:18So it belongs to the hotter category.
14:20You can normally cope with a clean, hot heat, but when that humidity, which it does in Madras, gets very high,
14:27it's like walk a lap and the sweat starts coming through the eyelets in your shoes.
14:32And it's very taxing.
14:35David Boone's 100 was his third in test cricket and was finally helped by some Indian generosity.
14:40I almost become a bit dizzy and hazy and couldn't focus on the ball,
14:50and then the second new ball came along.
14:52In desperation, Kapil Dev finally took the new ball just before stumps,
14:56and Sharma got the message.
14:59A magnificent hand by the young Tasmanian, including 21 fours.
15:03I was really disappointed to get out at that late stage,
15:06and Ray had to come in as the night watchman for about 15 minutes,
15:10but pleased to get 100, but disappointed to get out in that fashion.
15:14I look up and get a bit of a shake,
15:16and there he is telling me to get the pads on,
15:18and I just sort of started to get butt out, and he just said, just do it.
15:22So, when the captain tells you to do it, you just did it.
15:26If the players had hoped for some relief from the oppressive heat, it was not to be.
15:39The cement of the tiered concrete stadium continued to be baked by the broiling sun,
15:44and was almost too hot to touch.
15:47I don't think they played today in those conditions.
15:49I think they would say it was harmful to your health.
15:52It really was quite ridiculous when you look back, and it was so hot.
15:55And so humour that you'd just step outside, and it was like walking into a furnace.
15:59When play resumed this morning, night watchman Ray Bright showed complete disdain
16:03for India's best bowler, Ravi Shastri.
16:06And this could be a thick, yes.
16:08It was just about over the line.
16:10Not to be outdone, Dean Jones advanced from 88 to 96,
16:14with two spanking boundaries.
16:16The first a square leg.
16:17No question of my mind that I'm not cutting that off.
16:20And the second, high, wide and handsome through mid-wicket.
16:23Yeah, that's what he thinks.
16:27Then Ray Bright's gone saying, Jesus, it's hot.
16:31God, I know it's hot, Ray. I was here yesterday.
16:33Look, just...
16:34And he said, Jesus, it's hot.
16:36And I could see him.
16:37He's going crimson red, and he's starting to blow up, you know.
16:39I ended up holding out for 30-odd,
16:41because I virtually just couldn't hold the bat in the end,
16:43and I didn't really know.
16:45I was in a fair bit of trouble.
16:46They got the doctor, and I had no idea what was happening.
16:49I was almost sort of not with it at all.
16:51He was basically gone.
16:53He was shot, almost reduced to tears.
16:56Jones, playing in only his third test,
16:58defied insufferable heat to reach his maiden test century
17:01with his on-drive from Shastri's bowling.
17:03It was the achievement of a player
17:05who had learnt to curb impetuosity and work for his runs.
17:08Look at that.
17:09I was thinking, oh, I've made 100, test 100.
17:11You've made it.
17:12But my brain was saying, hang on.
17:14There's more to come here.
17:15I'm not worried about the 100.
17:16I want to get more.
17:18Jones even overshadowed his illustrious partner, Alan Borda,
17:21in a stand of 178 for the fourth wicket
17:24as both men overcame India's bowlers and the testing conditions.
17:27The tragedy of it was played in India,
17:29because it didn't get the publicity.
17:31It didn't get the recognition.
17:32It's one of the great innings I've ever played,
17:34one of the gutsiest innings I've ever played.
17:36And I think, Dean Jones,
17:37I've never bowled against a better batter ever in my life.
17:40I mean, he didn't let me pitch the ball, really.
17:44The moment I would fly the ball,
17:45he was there at the pitch of the ball.
17:47And it was a lovely sight.
17:49You know, there are some times in your career
17:51when you enjoy being hit.
17:53And I think that was one innings I really enjoyed being hit,
17:56because I was giving him that challenge
17:58that come out, step out and hit me.
18:00And he would accept it every time.
18:02It got to a stage where I started to cramp up in my hands.
18:05And you get pins and needles in your hands,
18:07and your hands start to grow up like that.
18:09And you push your hands out, trying to stop the cramping.
18:12And then I'd sweat one and I started to cramp up in the back leg,
18:15and then I started to cramp up in my back.
18:17And it got to the stage where I think I was in the mid-170s or something.
18:22And I knew I was in trouble because I started to urinate in my pants,
18:27and I couldn't stop it.
18:28They would hit me for a boundary, go to mid-wicket,
18:30vomit, come back, do that again.
18:32It was amazing.
18:33I mean, I was just thinking that he's going to get out,
18:35he's going to get tired, but he never did.
18:37I've got to admit that I wasn't overly concerned.
18:41It was just, oh, he's a bit crook, you know, and throwing up.
18:44But, you know, you have these little fits of nausea,
18:48then you get back into the stream of things,
18:50and you might feel crook again.
18:51I said, Davey, I've had enough.
18:53I'm stopping the game.
18:54This is stupid, me vomiting every two minutes.
18:57We're on TV, you know.
18:59And, mate, every time I hit the ball in the outfield,
19:02I can only walk one.
19:03I can't run.
19:04I'm cramping up.
19:06I can't move anymore.
19:07I was sort of in the situation where I'm thinking,
19:10well, I know it, James.
19:11I can cajole him into, you know, a bit more effort,
19:15not knowing, you know, how crook he really was.
19:18So, you know, that famous line about, you know,
19:21we'll get someone tough out here, we'll get a Queenslander,
19:23because I knew Greg Ritchie was in next.
19:25I knew that would have the desired effect,
19:28and, you know, a few major expletives later directed back at me,
19:33you know, I knew I'd press the right buttons.
19:36The Ayling Jones almost retired at 170,
19:39but decided to keep going and became the first Australian
19:42to score a test double century in India.
19:44I cannot remember going into dressing rooms at 200,
19:47202 not out at tea.
19:49I can't remember anything.
19:51By the time he came in, I think, 202 not out at tea time,
19:54he was like a corpse.
19:56Every time he came off the field, we had assigned players
20:00to do certain things for Dino.
20:02As he came through, the cap would be taken off, you know,
20:05his gloves would be removed, his pads would be removed,
20:08someone else would take off his shirts and his under...
20:11There'd be an ice bath waiting for him.
20:14We would do that and basically just shove him out the door
20:16and say, Dino, go, you're off again.
20:18And somehow he would click back in, but as he went on,
20:21his eyes started to, you know, draw out and draw out and draw out.
20:25I was still batting when he was dismissed at 210,
20:28so I just thought, oh, what a fantastic knock,
20:30and, you know, we're getting to that point where we're, you know,
20:34in a very impregnable position in this game.
20:37I remember when I got out, I got bowled and walked off the ground
20:42that I was in, I was put in a bath, a nice bath, full of ice, just water.
20:48And I just hopped in this bath and I had a phanta or something
20:52and I thought, oh, this is like lukewarm water.
20:55And obviously it was unbearably cold with ice and all that
20:58and I was OK.
20:59The first time all day that I felt, oh, I'm half alive here, I'm all right.
21:04And I hopped out of the bath and that was it.
21:07It wasn't until later that I found out that he'd sort of collapsed
21:10and was in very bad shape and had been rushed off the hospital.
21:14And that's when I started to think, oh, my God, I've killed him.
21:17I went into a ball because I was cramping that much
21:20and I just couldn't release.
21:21I was screaming, oh, hell, the pain in my back and the stomach,
21:25and just cramp right through to your whole body.
21:28And obviously dehydration and set in and then I got told later
21:32that obviously I went to ambulance to the Apollo hospital
21:37and what happened there in the hospital and chaos and all that type of stuff
21:40and they weighed me and that I lost seven kilos in the day.
21:47I can't remember going to the hospital at all.
21:49And Errol Alcott, our Australian physio, tells the story that the ambulance was just amazing,
21:57one of the best rides you'll ever, ever get anywhere.
21:59And we got to the Apollo hospital and, of course, I got wheeled in on a gurney or something
22:03and I went into the emergency room and there was this one guy, Errol records,
22:08that surrounded, he's really badly injured, he's surrounded by nurses and doctors
22:13are prodding and pushing and with all these type of stuff
22:16and he's been hit by a bus suddenly and he's mangled.
22:20And all of a sudden someone says, Australian cricketer, dehydration,
22:24Dean Jones, Jones, Jones is here.
22:26And all of them just left this poor bloke and just looked after me.
22:30And Errol's gone, looked across and there's this nurse just patting this poor bloke's hand,
22:35you'll be right.
22:36And he's got broken legs and ribs and cuts and all that.
22:39All I've got is dehydration because I was a cricketer, an Australian cricketer at that.
22:44They just looked after me.
22:46I've got to take full credit for, you know, his legendary status now.
22:49I mean, if he'd walked off retired hurt 170, mate, no legend.
22:53Now he's made 210 and nearly died.
22:55I mean, I'm responsible for that.
23:05Dean Jones spent the night on an intravenous trip
23:07but was fit to play the next day.
23:10Alan Borders scored his 19th test century
23:13and closed Australia's innings on a massive total of seven for 574.
23:19I think when somebody gets 500 runs on the first day or second day,
23:24you're always on the back foot and try to say,
23:27how we can save the test match.
23:29It wasn't at that stage how we can win it
23:32because the game was already gone out of our hands.
23:38India began typically with Krish Frikant in aggressive command,
23:42swatting raid for four to bring up his 50.
23:45I know only one way to play is play attacking.
23:48If I try different there, I'll be probably the first or the second over.
23:51That is Shrikanko.
23:53Greg Matthews recovered from an early pasting
23:55to lower the temperatures of the Indian supporters.
23:57He claimed Gavaska for eight, caught and bowled.
23:59Then Shrikant after compiling 53 was picked up at backward point by Greg Ritchie.
24:15Azaruddin chimed in with 50 himself, including some flowing shots.
24:22But he ultimately fell to Ray Bright, also caught and bowled.
24:32Matthews ended the third day with four for 86,
24:35enticing Shastri forward for Zura to take the catch.
24:39And Pandit lofted him to the comfortable hands of Steve Waugh at mid-on.
24:45Oh no, that is not just a mid-way.
24:47It's a tragedy for India.
24:49At stumps on the third day, India was precariously placed at seven for 270,
24:55still requiring another 104 runs to avoid the follow-on.
24:59India's fate rested on the shoulders of their captain, Kapil Dev.
25:04We were in shambles at the end of that day's play,
25:07and Kapil was the overnight knot out.
25:09And I think he was batting 10 of 15,
25:12and he got back in the dressing room and he was furious.
25:16He just sat us down and he just gave us an enormous lecture.
25:20He said, hey, you guys think this is one-day cricket or what?
25:23This is test cricket.
25:24We are facing follow-on.
25:26Blah, blah, blah.
25:27All of us just got blasted.
25:28Next morning, Steve Waugh opened the bowling,
25:31and the first three balls went up in the air,
25:34over mid-off, over cover point,
25:36and a flick over square leg, if I remember.
25:39Again, in the air, exactly the kind of shots that he had criticised us for us the previous evening.
25:45But that was Kapil.
25:467 for 270 overnight, and more than 100 to avoid the follow-on,
25:58but that didn't deter Kapil Dev.
26:05Only the wicket of Sharma provided relief for the Australians
26:09on what was a mourning for Dev.
26:16He does it again.
26:17Kapil had the knack of playing these kind of innings when India needed them.
26:23With the kind of batting ability Kapil had,
26:26Kapil should have scored at least a couple more thousand runs.
26:28But then, you know, bowling took a fair bit out of him.
26:31And my impression of Kapil when he went into bat was,
26:35if the runs were needed, he would score them.
26:39He just came out with no fear,
26:41and decided that everything was going to go.
26:44And in the meantime, he played some pretty decent cricket shots as well,
26:47which he was very capable of.
26:49And he scored at such a rate.
26:51Anything I was hitting, it was just my day, I would say.
26:55And if I want to play against the spin, I could manage to do that.
27:00I can want to hit something.
27:02I can manage to do that.
27:04I think there are times of cricketers coming alive.
27:08When you want to do something, you can always do it.
27:11Onto his fourth Test 100, and in the words of the locals...
27:14Ecstasy.
27:23As only Kapil can do.
27:25Not scared to lift the ball in the air
27:27and just played all the shots.
27:29Played very well.
27:30Played very aggressive innings,
27:31and started to sort of, obviously, save India's bacon.
27:38Just listen to the reaction of the local crowd,
27:40and Kapil Dev made sure that India avoided the following.
27:44That innings made the match.
27:53I mean, this match was a tightest match because of that innings, I feel.
27:57Because if he hadn't got out of the follow-on,
27:59then probably the Australians would have won the game by the fourth day
28:01or the fifth day lunchtime.
28:03But it was that innings of Kapil's which was amazing.
28:06The Australians wrapped up the Indian tail after they'd averted the follow-on.
28:10Yardav was caught by border in close, but this was the man they needed earlier.
28:15Kapil Dev, who ultimately went for 119, falling to Matthews, who took five wickets.
28:21With a 177 lead, Australian intentions were positive.
28:26Quick runs, and they lost wickets in achieving that.
28:30Marsh was one to fall defensively, out for 11.
28:36And first innings double century maker Dean Jones lacked the timing of his first knock.
28:41David Boone went unusually leg before.
28:50But the Australian runs flowed on to establish a sizeable lead.
28:56Then Captain Alan Border played one out of the how not to bat manual.
29:02Basically overnight we're, what, 570, which gave us a lead of 347.
29:07So that was the big conundrum, what to do at that point.
29:11Do we call off the jam there and have a crack them?
29:14Do we bat for half an hour, try and, you know, bat them out of the game
29:17and then we can sort of maintain an attacking field for the remainder of the day?
29:22I convinced a rather reluctant Alan at that stage
29:26to close the innings at the end of that day.
29:29Because Alan's natural attitude would have been to go on.
29:33Alan was pretty cautious, understandably,
29:35because we hadn't won a lot of test matches and, you know, we'd been struggling.
29:39We know this wicket is starting to spin.
29:41We know it's got to break up sometime.
29:43The odds are all in our favour.
29:45If we're going to win this match, we've got to come forward and say
29:48we want to win the match and the way to do that is to close.
29:51So that was a pretty positive move
29:53and a change in a different direction from being,
29:56from trying to save a test match to actually trying to win one.
29:58The way I was or I played my cricket,
30:01no way I could have put the shirt down and say,
30:04OK, relax, we just want to draw the game, no.
30:073.47, the target on the last day, 90 overs, it's not very easy.
30:11And Alan Border, when he gave that target,
30:13would have never imagined that anybody would go after that target.
30:17India began the chase in typical fashion with Shrikant leading the way.
30:22Shrikant's a naturally attacking player.
30:26He was going to go and play his own game.
30:29And Sonny picked it up from there
30:31and Sonny batted really fluently and set it up.
30:34I thought that opening partnership really set it up.
30:37The runs came quickly.
30:39They were coming at over four runs and over.
30:41And, you know, suddenly it was game on.
30:44Australia finally got a breakthrough when Shrikant holed out.
30:48Steve Waugh running around from long off to long on
30:51to take a superb catch.
30:53India's hopes for victory rested very much on the shoulders
30:56of their batting genius, Sunil Gavaskar.
31:00If I could hang in there till about tea time,
31:03then we had a good chance that we'd have a platform
31:07for the likes of Kapil there
31:09with their extraordinary stroke-producing ability
31:12to be able to take us to a win.
31:14Gavaskar launched his assault on the Australian bowlers,
31:18unleashing a full array of shots
31:20and what proved to be a truly majestic display
31:23of superb batting.
31:27I remember him actually defending a ball
31:29with no follow-through whatsoever against Bruce Reid
31:33and it just going for four straight down the ground.
31:36I still have nightmares about it, to be quite honest,
31:39because he was just in scintillating touch.
31:42I hadn't seen him in that sort of aggressive, just go for it type mood.
31:54When he gets down his one song and playing those cover drives off,
31:57you know, basically on his knees,
31:59because he's so fluent when he gets down through the ball,
32:02you think a bit of the, oh no.
32:05Down on one knee hitting Craig McDermott through covers.
32:08I mean, I hadn't seen him play that shot ever before.
32:10All of a sudden, you know, he's producing this sort of cricket
32:14just when India needed it.
32:16India were two for 193 at tee,
32:19needing to score 155 runs in the final session,
32:23including 20 overs in the last hour.
32:26But yeah, there was a stage, yeah,
32:28where it looked like the game slipped away from us.
32:30India realistically should have won it pretty easily
32:32coming into the last session.
32:33At 90, Gavaskar miscured from Bright
32:36and was caught by Dean Jones in the covers.
32:39This was just the break the weary Australians needed
32:42to get themselves back into the match.
32:49Greg Matthews obviously agreed.
32:52He was such a guy who could do anything to disturb the opponent
32:59and he can change your concentration so easily
33:04because he can do so many funny things on the ground.
33:08And suddenly you say, man, let me play cricket.
33:11And suddenly you see he come out and say something
33:14or he jump around and he talk to the crowd.
33:17The vital dismissal was Kapil Dev.
33:20He was caught by Bright off Matthews for one.
33:23The score then five for 253.
33:26We all thought that as long as Kapil Dev is in the crease,
33:28everything will be very easy.
33:29The moment Kapil got out, slight jitters started running into us.
33:33And I think that's where the Aussies all started putting more pressure.
33:36Kapil was walking out.
33:37I made sure I went from the other side of the side screen.
33:40I was the vice-captain of the side.
33:42I let him come in here and so he couldn't see me.
33:45I went from the other side because I didn't want any message.
33:48In my mind, it was pretty clear that we're still going for it.
33:52And as it happened, the first baller went down the track,
33:55literally met Ray Bright even as he left the ball
33:58and hit it through the covers for four.
34:00And the field had been brought up at that stage by Alan Border.
34:03That first ball going to the boundary meant the field went back.
34:07And I said, geez, these guys are serious.
34:09You know, it's still on.
34:10Ravi Shastri played a brilliant innings, to be quite honest,
34:13because he mixed, you know, resolute defence,
34:16knocking the ball around ones and twos type scenario with some big hitting.
34:21And Ravi was a massive hitter of the ball.
34:24I mean, when he hit a six, it used to disappear, you know, halfway up into the stands.
34:28You had to attack early on because we were still behind the eight ball at that stage.
34:32You needed someone to go.
34:34And I remember hitting a couple of boundaries and a couple of big sixes of Craig Matthews,
34:39which went into the crowd.
34:42And the game was set then.
34:44You knew you didn't have to do anything silly.
34:47And you would win this game.
34:50Needing to average six runs and over, Ravi Shastri maintained India's victory charge,
34:55hitting Matthews into the stand.
35:02In the morning, I would say that there might have been five, six, seven thousand people there.
35:06By the end of the day, it's nearly chock a block as the news went around the bazaars
35:11and the markets of Madras that the game was getting tight and India may win.
35:16Ravi Shastri used that strength of the crowd and the support of the Indian people that came in that afternoon.
35:25And he, I've never seen anything like it at a cricket match.
35:28You see it more so at a tennis match or a footy game or something like that.
35:32But he was remonstrating to them to lift them more and more.
35:35And the noise got louder and louder and louder.
35:37And that sort of intensified our nervousness.
35:40The gallery is an absolute rapture.
35:43As if coping with Ravi Shastri wasn't already enough, coping with the conditions also became a problem.
35:49Ray Bright and Greg Matthews were obviously pivotal players for the last day.
35:55But Ray, it sort of had a cumulative effect over the four days of cricket.
36:02Bowling on the last day, he became disorientated and very dehydrated and crook and basically had to leave the ground.
36:11It was a long day and I thought I just wasn't switched on and I thought maybe there might be someone out there that might be a little bit more alert,
36:17feeling a bit better than I was, that might be able to do a job.
36:20Because I was getting a bit tight in that situation and I thought I just needed to go off for a little while to refocus.
36:25The unsung hero for Australia on that final day was off-spin bowler Greg Matthews.
36:31After claiming five wickets in India's first innings, Matthews defied the heat and oppressive humidity to bowl virtually unchanged.
36:38Greg Matthews was very, very strong mentally and amazing. The whole day he kept bowling in that heat with the cap on.
36:48I can understand him bowling in the cap all day with the bright sun, but to have a sleeveless sweater on,
36:55and mid 30 degrees and very high humidity, it worried us a bit.
37:00I think the closest I can come up with was a typical Greg explanation that, you know,
37:05he once saw a show on the nomadic herders and these guys who were rounding up sheep or whatever in the deserts,
37:11used to wear the woolen coats to keep the cold air in and keep the hot air out, so that was his theory.
37:16But I think for Greg it was more than that. When I look at it a bit closely, it was almost Greg saying,
37:21look, this is not too tough, we can do this, and I'm going to show you by wearing two jumpers that I can do it.
37:26You know, pushing myself to the limit, I can still bowl 39 and a half overs on the last day wearing two jumpers,
37:31so what are the rest of you guys doing?
37:33The bowl, that period of time and that heat, and the last ball we got compared to the first ball was exactly the same.
37:41The effort was the same, the intent was the same, the intensity was the same, and Greg Matthews really, really played for Australia that day.
37:50I think we do forget Greg's performance, an all-round performance in that game.
37:56Ten wickets and bowling basically all the last day, just extraordinary effort from him.
38:02But he made a couple of scores in the game, 20s and 30s type scenario, so he contributed with the bat as well.
38:10Several acrimonious incidents finally unsettled Pandit, who played on to Matthews, and the message was clear as the sixth Indian batsman departed.
38:18It did get heated, it was a pretty spiteful match to look back on it.
38:21I think both sides knew how important that match was to the rest of the series and to the development of both sides.
38:27India was a pretty experienced side and wanted to stay, I guess, ahead of us in the pecking order.
38:33For us, we wanted to get a bit of a reputation as a decent side.
38:37Well, we're all human, we're all sort of sometimes in those sort of scenarios under pressure and, you know, both sides were guilty of it.
38:45But, look, the actual cricket that was played was just outstanding.
38:50And just the little personality clashes that sort of happened throughout the day probably added to the tension and the spite and the overall spectacle.
39:00There was, you know, a couple of players were engaged in a headbutt at one stage in drinks.
39:05It wasn't a major headbutt, but it was something that definitely happened.
39:08The conditions had taken the toll on the players, not only physically but mentally and emotionally.
39:13They were spent and they were irritable, they were angry, they were sniping at each other.
39:20And it needed a lot of control from V. Vikram Raju and Dara Dottawala, the two umpires.
39:26They became embroiled in it as well, understandably enough.
39:29At one stage Dottawala, in an extraordinary move, said to Alan Borda that the pace of it was too slow.
39:36He needed to quicken things along.
39:38So I had to go and request him to just speed up things because it's getting dark and ultimately it's no good for the batsmen to bat in a dim light.
39:50The influence was that we were slowing down the overrate on purpose, maybe trying to, you know, force the game into, you know, the twilight sort of time, which does happen in India very quickly.
40:03The twilight, there's no such thing, it's just sunshine or then it gets very dark quickly.
40:07Porter and Dottawala were at the best and I'm telling you, I'm telling you, calm down, don't talk to me like this, I'm telling you.
40:17I can't exactly what I said but it was, you know, sort of, you know, you worry about what you've got to do, mate, and we'll sort of be in charge of the cricket side of things.
40:28And, uh, he got very irate about it and, um, after a little bit more toing and froing, he said, I will send you off.
40:35Now, I sat back and thinking, is that what I think he's just said?
40:40Oh, he can't send me off.
40:42Then I thought to myself, well, maybe he can.
40:45So I turned to Bernie and said, well, Bernie, look, he can't send me off, can he?
40:49And Bernie, you know, typically will just go over the bucket if I know and walked off.
40:54Alan always dines on the fact that for his right-hand man to not know the laws of cricket in that respect was quite poor.
41:03I didn't say I'll send you out the ground but I pointed out to the dressing room and I told him that I'll be reporting you over there.
41:11I was there, very much there.
41:13In fact, I took calm, I took Dottawala away.
41:16I said, come on, relax now, let's get on with the game because I wanted the overs.
41:20So I'm not going to allow these two to carry on because that's another five, ten minutes gone.
41:26And the light was fading.
41:27I said, no, no, come back.
41:29Calm down.
41:30Come back here and start umpiring.
41:32We want some overs.
41:34We're under pressure at this stage.
41:36The game's ebbing and flowing.
41:37No one knows which way it's going.
41:39Five minutes of cricket wear on top, the next five minutes there on top.
41:42And it was just getting, you know, very, very tight out in the middle.
41:46If this game was played today, the referees would have been meeting for a considerable time at the end of the day.
41:53And there would have been some very, very substantial penalties handed out.
41:56No doubt about that.
41:57Tim Zura having a go and one particular batsman and the batsman said to him,
42:03look, I'm going to stick this bat where the sun don't shine.
42:05And he bent over and said, well, do it in the middle.
42:07And cameras just had it full on.
42:09And I'm thinking, well, this ain't going to look good the next time.
42:14Tim Zura was trying to work up all the Indian players
42:17because basically what the Australians needed was wickets.
42:20If they kept getting wickets at regular intervals, they would win the game.
42:23But to get those wickets, Alan Borda needed all his bowlers on the ground.
42:29I think there was only a few overs to go at that stage.
42:31And I asked Lizard, does AB need me out there for the rest of the day?
42:36Dave Gillard came running out with the message, you know,
42:39do you reckon, you know, would you like him out here?
42:41And I remember the look on the face of Alan Borda
42:43and that was enough to know exactly what he was thinking
42:46when, you know, Dave Gillard delivered the message
42:49that Ray had asked whether he was required.
42:52I think a few expletives later got the message through that,
42:55yes, it'd be great if Ray could, you know, come out there and help us out
43:00because at that point, you know, it was so important that he'd be there.
43:04He gave Lizard the biggest spray of all time to get that weak so-and-so out here.
43:08So Lizard said, come in and said, yes, Alan would like you out there, Spotty.
43:13So off I went and managed to get a few wickets late in the day,
43:18which turned the game around.
43:20Four overs to go, 17 needed.
43:22Sharma holed out to McDermott and it was seven for 331.
43:27Kieran Moreh aimed a sweep at Ray Bright.
43:30He was a judged LBW, eight for 334.
43:34There was a partnership going and we're cruising.
43:38And then all of a sudden, three wickets went just like this.
43:43And then suddenly from a position where you were going to win the game easily,
43:48there was a fear of we could be losing this one.
43:51The world's best number 10, Yadav, launched the assault at Matthews.
43:57That's a big one.
44:02And Ravi was very, you know, very good for them in that situation.
44:08Keeping things calm, talking to the guy at the other end, getting the crowd going,
44:13keeping the pressure on us with the way he played.
44:16And just his body language was very, very positive and, you know, added to the whole theatre.
44:24When Ray Bright commenced the penultimate over of the match,
44:27India required seven runs to win of 12 deliveries with two wickets in hand.
44:33Moment of suspense here.
44:35Sastry looking at him. Don't let me down, Shiv.
44:38Number 10 batsman Yadav didn't let him down,
44:41finding the gap through point and scoring two valuable runs.
44:49Four to win. Yadav went for the winning stroke,
44:51but he was bowled off his pads by Bright, nine for 344.
44:57India's hopes now rested with their last man in, Maninder Singh.
45:02I mean, I'll tell you very honestly, I was absolutely numb.
45:05I didn't hear a word from the crowd.
45:07I didn't know who was standing besides me.
45:09I really didn't know what Ravi was talking to me at that time.
45:12Because, I mean, you can imagine the pressure.
45:15Playing in India, chance of winning a test match, three runs to go, last wicket.
45:20Maninder Singh played out the remainder of Ray Bright's over.
45:25The stage was set.
45:28Now it's all up to Sastry.
45:30Now, it was also all up to Greg Matthews.
45:33All credited to the Australians.
45:36They haven't let go.
45:37They've attacked.
45:38They've kept the ball in play.
45:39They've kept the ball at the wickets.
45:41And really challenged India all the way.
45:44Should I?
45:50Should I go for this big one?
45:52Knowing very well that you had already hit a couple of sixes,
45:55so you had every right to believe in yourself.
45:57I was panicking that he would just basically wait for the right ball
46:01and just hit the ball out of the ground and that would be the end of the game.
46:05Five balls remain, four runs to get.
46:15The pressure was immense even on the fielders.
46:17And Steve Wolf, all people, you know, mis-fielded in the sense,
46:22it shouldn't have given me two.
46:24And not making excuses.
46:25I got a pretty horrible bounce and it hit my wrist and bobbled up
46:28and I had to turn away and pick it up and by that stage I'd run two,
46:31so I thought that's fantastic.
46:33I've just cost us the test match here.
46:35The game was slipping away very quickly.
46:37And so then it was just, you know, what's Ravi going to do?
46:40What is he going to do?
46:41If I take the single, that's the last thing Alan Bodo wants me to do, really.
46:45Because then India can't lose.
46:48And anything can happen.
46:50I was very surprised and then relieved that he gave us the opportunity to bowl at Meninder for those last few deliveries.
47:07Number 11, so what?
47:09You know, you might just swing at one, get a top edge or get a leg by,
47:14or the bowler might bowl a no ball and you could win the game.
47:17Having come that close, it would have been a tragedy if India had lost the game.
47:21And so I think he did the right thing by taking the single because there were still two balls to go.
47:28And Maninder was really no mug with the bat.
47:30As far as the Australians were concerned, they were positive.
47:33I was positive as well.
47:34I thought I'll get that single and take India to victory.
47:37I was thinking to myself, don't hit it to me.
47:51I told him, wait for the last ball.
47:53You know, see if you can score off the first two.
47:55Last one, just go for it.
47:56Nothing to lose.
47:57But before that, there was Uncle Vikram Raju, who was there right out of Texas.
48:03You know, shooting his finger up in a hurry.
48:11It's a tie.
48:13The match has ended in a tie.
48:15It's an unbelievable result.
48:18History has been made here at the Chidambaram Stadium at Chepok.
48:22My hand is up because there was a definite nick.
48:25In my mind, there was a definite nick.
48:26The ball hit it.
48:27And if you look at AB, he's actually going for a catch initially,
48:31then trying to stop the ball.
48:33I didn't appeal.
48:34I just see the ball rolling out in my direction.
48:37So I'm diving, making sure I'm getting the ball so they can't get a run.
48:41And, of course, the appeal goes up.
48:43I'm starting to become aware of a big, massive appeal.
48:46And you turn around, and the umpire's got his finger up in a shot.
48:50I put my hand up there, not knowing what's happened at the back.
48:54The celebrations have started.
48:55Turn back.
48:57Ooh, his hand has already gone up and come down.
48:59I said, what happened there?
49:00He said, no, no, he's out.
49:01I said, when did you give him out?
49:02I couldn't see it.
49:03By the time I turned around, he was...
49:06Everyone was walking off the path.
49:08And you're still convinced to this day that it was an inside edge?
49:11Oh, absolutely.
49:12Well, Alan Bodder was standing at silly point, and as soon as he saw the umpire's finger go up, you know,
49:17he just said, bad luck, son.
49:19And they all ran towards the pavilion because I don't think they really wanted to stay in the ground
49:23in case the umpire changes his decisions.
49:25One school board said it was a tie.
49:27One school board said the other end had...
49:29We won it by one.
49:30And I'm running off the ground, and I think, oh, beauty.
49:33Have we won?
49:34Because I don't know.
49:35And then Bob Simpson told us, no, it's a tie.
49:38And I've been to both of them.
49:39That's the first thing he said.
49:41And I'm thinking, tie's good, isn't it?
49:44That's good, isn't it?
49:45I do remember getting a couple of souvenir stumps on the way off.
49:48That was, you know, the one thing in my mind.
49:50Get a couple of stumps, you know.
49:51This is a famous moment.
49:53I saw a happy Australian camp.
49:56They were really, you know...
49:58Thank you, Vikram Raju.
50:00You've done the job for us.
50:01The bat was not near the pad.
50:04The bat never came close to the ball.
50:07So I was confident.
50:09And he was plumb in front of the wicket.
50:11I've got to be honest.
50:13And I think there may have been a little hint of an inside edge.
50:17But it was a close bat pad.
50:20It was a very, very tight run thing.
50:22On turning track on the fifth day when the baller is spinning the ball from right to left and left to right.
50:29And suddenly his finger come out, umpire's finger come out so quick.
50:36Because they had a tie.
50:38They wanted to win the match.
50:40For that reason, we have been scapegoated.
50:43Of course, I am now...
50:45I am still...
50:46Even today I am telling you the same thing.
50:48See, as a neutral man, I should be...
50:51As far as possible, confident and then given the decision.
50:58The way Mr Vikram Raju gave him out, I am very confident and I have very much confidence in my partner that he must have given the correct decision.
51:10I was reading one of the interviews after the match where they said that they wanted to prove one thing to the visitors that we don't favour our Indian side.
51:19And when you have that frame of mind, you are going to make mistakes favouring the opposition.
51:24And I think that's what happened.
51:26I didn't favour either Australian or any Indian player.
51:31The whole of the match, I am telling you.
51:33I remember storming into the umpire's room straight away.
51:37And having a real go at Vikram Raju.
51:41In this day and age, I would have been banned maybe for a year.
51:46And gave him a right, you know, real service over there.
51:49And he said, it is the right decision.
51:52And I am glad to be part of history.
51:54You know, by putting that finger up and being involved in only the second tight test match.
51:59I looked at him and I said, you frickin beauty.
52:04And I got the photograph of that decision given by me.
52:08That was the last ball incident.
52:10Yes.
52:11That has created history.
52:12Yes.
52:13Index finger went up.
52:15Don't you agree Vikram that it was in our destiny.
52:18Yes.
52:19It was a godsend thing that we are associated with this match.
52:22Yes.
52:23My initial reaction was, oh, what a mess.
52:25Because we were 326 for five or six.
52:28And needed only 22 runs to win.
52:30And we should have won.
52:32But that time, the anger was much more bigger than the moment you can recollect this.
52:38You know, it's something we've done which never or only once happened before.
52:44You're part of the history.
52:45Whether you played the ball or you've not played the ball, people are going to remember even
52:49after you die.
52:50The realisation setting in as to it was a tie.
52:55You know, the second tie in history.
52:57Something very, very special.
52:58And we felt it.
53:00Since test cricket began in 1877, there has been only one other tied test match.
53:09I'd grown up watching newsreels of the tied test in Brisbane.
53:19And Gary Sobers was my early cricketing idol as a result of that.
53:23So, then all of a sudden, we're involved in a tied test match ourselves.
53:28It was, yeah, very, very special.
53:30Not only for the fact that they've seen the two tied tests, but to be in a position to
53:35realise the importance that they had to cricket.
53:39For instance, the Brisbane one.
53:41That was the start of perhaps the greatest test series ever.
53:45So, to be there and appreciate that.
53:48Then, when we go to Madras, what have we got?
53:52The Australian team trying to claw its way back.
53:54Plays a great match.
53:55Gets a tie out of it.
53:56Sets themself up for the next, you know, perhaps ten years.
54:01Everyone talks about the Brisbane test match, Australia West Indies, as the tied test match.
54:08This game was as good, if not better, than that 1960-61 tied game.
54:12It happened in India, and at that time, I don't think anything that happened in India or Pakistan
54:17was given too much of an importance.
54:19It really is the forgotten tie, and it shouldn't be.
54:25India, I think, will always, because of the World Cup, the tied test match,
54:32a lot of the players from that era will be very, very near and dear to our hearts.
54:36Look through the personnel that were involved in that particular match,
54:41and the nucleus that sort of then subsequently went on to pretty good careers,
54:44and then you look at, say, 18 Iron Ashes tour, and then beyond.
54:48You'd have to say that, yeah, the early seeds were definitely sown back in 86.
54:54The realisation was there with the Australians as well,
54:57that this Indian team can play anywhere, not just in India, but can win in Australia as well.
55:02India and Australia in test match cricket before that haven't had much to do.
55:07But this tied test has brought the two countries together.
55:10There's no doubt about that.
55:11And the relationships that it's forged from it, you can tell that already now,
55:16because there's a Board of Gaviskar trophy, and, of course,
55:18those two great guys played in the tied test.
55:20DONE considərdum
55:22Eh!
55:23DONE3
55:27END
55:33END
55:37END
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