Yashpal Sharma: Guts, glory & less feted innings of 1983 WC that BBC didn't cover

On Tuesday, as Indian cricket lost one of its gutsiest soldiers to a massive cardiac arrest, one couldn't help but remember what a nice easy-going person Yashpal Sharma was, someone who was great at having a laugh or two even if it was at his own expense. Yashpal was like that bridge between India being a horrible ODI outfit to their transformation into world champions and the ODI revolution that happened after that in the country.