Thirty-two years to the date, Malcolm Marshall terrorised India at Green Park, Kanpur. He is not alive to relive it with his colleagues, supporters and friends, but October 22, 1983 was the day when Marshall showed the cricketing world that he had truly arrived.

As kids, we were shocked to find our 1983 World Cup heroes succumb to a fast bowler, who was not even a six-footer like his fellow pacemen. Gavaskar (0), Gaekwad (4), Amarnath (0), Vengsarkar (14) — all fell to Marshall in an evening spell of 8-5-9-4, as India ended Day Two at 34 for 5.