They couldn't accept the fact that they had lost to us, some of them came to our dressing room later with champagne bottles: Mohinder Amarnath recalls India's win vs WI in 1983 WC final

cricket fan can ever forget. It's a day that will always be remembered as one on which India won the biggest prize in world cricket - the World Cup - 39 years ago, on June 25, 1983. And that achievement became a watershed moment in Indian cricket, propelling it further and taking it from strength to strength. There are multiple stories and anecdotes of course that we have all heard and enjoyed over the years about India's incredible achievement - from complete underdogs to world champions. A recent Bollywood movie, starring Ranveer Singh as Kapil Dev and called 83, recapped the journey of Team India in that edition of the World Cup and how they went on to beat the mighty West Indies, who had won the two previous editions in 1975 and 1979, in the final to become the champions of the world. The legendary Mohinder Amarnath, who was the Man of the Match in the semi-final vs England (46 & 2-27) and the final vs the West Indies (26 & 3-12) in the 1983 World Cup was a guest on Times of India's sports podcast Sportscast earlier this year, after the movie 83 had released and recalled many wonderful anecdotes about that magical journey that changed the face of Indian cricket forever and gave multiple generations that followed the belief that took India to the pinnacle of world cricket.

(Twitter Photo)Excerpts from the interaction with Mohinder Amarnath on TOI Sportscast:On India and the cricket they were playing before the 1983 World Cup:“Before 1983 we were playing good cricket, but we were not winning anything at the highest level as such. There was probably a mindset of the people and the players that the opponents were always stronger and better and they would always look up to them. There is nothing wrong in appreciating