In 1976, India was set a target of 403 by the West Indies to win the third Test. Only one team in the history of the game had scored more than 400 to win a game and India weren’t the best batting side in the world either. They surprised everybody by scoring 406 for four. A few years later when he was asked what the strategy was, Sunil Gavaskar said the plan was to just keep batting session by session; at the start of a session to take care not to get out, then tell yourself you had done the difficult part and would be foolish to throw it away and towards the end to ensure you were around at
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