Nottingham, Aug 3 (TIWN) As Virat Kohli's men gear up to take on England in a five-Test away series in England with a battery of fast bowlers putting them on equal footing with the home side, exactly 50 years ago an unfancied India, led by Ajit Wadekar, made history by winning the first-ever Test series in England with a spin-heavy attack.

In the same vein, India’s tour of England in 1971 will only and always conjure up memories of a certain magician by the name of Bhagwat Subramanya Chandrasekhar.

Oh, what a tour it was. India was riding high on an already significant feat – a series win against the mighty West Indies, their first ever overseas win in the Caribbean and even more significantly, the first time they had won an overseas series apart from New Zealand in 1968.