5 times India won an overseas Test despite conceding the first innings lead

#4 Port of Spain – 1976

Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Vishwanath scored superb tons in the 4th innings.

A lot of people remember this win as it was India’s highest ever successful run-chase in the fourth innings (and second highest in the history of the game at that time). India chased down 403 against a formidable West Indian bowling attack. But, India were behind the game for most parts of it.

Batting first, West Indies scored 359 and it was Sir Viv Richards who stood out with a magnificent 177. Bhagwat Chandrashekar and Bishan Singh Bedi took 6/120 and 4/73 to restrict the hosts. None of the Indian batsmen got going in the first innings as they were bowled out for 228 conceding a big lead of 131 runs.

Alvin Kallicharan scored a superb unbeaten 103 as the Windies declared at 271/6 to set India a target of 403. Chasing a daunting target, India’s top-order batted extremely well and set-up the run-chase. Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Vishwanath registered brilliant tons and Mohinder Amarnath contributed with 85 as India completed a record run-chase with 6 wickets in hand.

Brief Scores: West Indies 359 (Viv Richards 177, Clive Lloyd 68, Chandrashekar 6/120, Bedi 4/73) and 271/6 dec (Kallicharan 103*, Venkataraghavan 3/63) lost to India 228 (Vishwanath 41, Madan Lal 42, Holding 6/65, Imtiaz Ali 2/35) and 406/4 (Gavaskar 102, Vishwanath 112, Amarnath 85, Jumadeen 2/70)