Cricket: 'I Knew That They Loved Cricket and I Loved Being There, the Passion of It' ; TONY GREIG: HOW INDIA CHANGED MY LIFE

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*** Tony Greig wowed India. He was treated everywhere with a fervour usualy reserved for boy bands by pubescent girls. He did it with a straightforward approach: he embraced the place and its people and for this they adored him.

It led, indirectly at least, to a thumping 3-1 victory secured against the best spinners in the world, stil England's finest on the subcontinent. In addition it alowed the tourists to make light of an event in the clinching victory which might easily have had calamitous consequences.

If it was Greig's wonderful showmanship and natural charisma that permitted the strategy, the original idea came from the most improbable of sources. Before …