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Fifty years ago, Bishan Singh Bedi’s Indian team became only the second side in Test history to achieve a 400-plus run fourth innings target to stun Clive Lloyd’s West Indies at Queen’s Park Oval, Port-of-Spain

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A 2007 image of the Queen’s Park Oval in Trinidad, where India chased their way to glory on April 12, 1976. Pic/mid-day archives, Suresh Karkera

It’s exactly 50 years to the day when India beat the then world record score in a fourth innings win by chasing 404 vs WI in Port of Spain. It was from here that we started believing anything was possible and nearly pulled off 400-plus targets a couple times

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A 2007 image of the Queen’s Park Oval in Trinidad, where India chased their way to glory on April 12, 1976. Pic/mid-day archives, Suresh Karkera
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