As a new-look Team India gets ready to take on England away from home, our guest Rajdeep Sardesai takes us back to 1971 when India registered their first series win over England. The year, however, began with another special series win in the West Indies, where a young Sunil Gavaskar combined with a veteran Dilip Sardesai to give India a new self-belief. Hear the veteran journalist roll back time with stories from 1971 in this episode of A Century of Stories: Cricket podcast presented by IDFC FIRST Bank.

In the last decade, Virat Kohli and Ravi Shastri forged a strong Captain-Coach partnership that transformed much about the team, from fielding standards, to fitness levels to on-field aggression. The results could be seen in the team’s success on the field where they dominated at home and clinched multiple series wins away. India’s ex-fielding coach, R. Sridhar, who saw the duo operate from close quarters, gives an insight into what made them such a formidable pair on this episode of A Century of Stories: Cricket podcast presented by IDFC FIRST Bank.