When Kapil Dev stunned Zimbabwe and kickstarted India's dream 

Staring down the barrel at 17-5, Kapil walks in

Kapil Dev walked in at 17-5

Batting first, the Indian team stumbled in front of the pace unit of Peter Rawson and Kevin Curran (whose son Tom Curran has played for England). They lost opener Sunil Gavaskar and Krishnamachari Srikkanth, and followed it with Mohinder Amarnath and Sandeep Patil, with the score reading 9-4.

That soon became 17-5, after Yashpal Sharma, batting ahead of Kapil Dev, was dismissed by Rawson after surviving 28 balls for nine runs. The deep batting line-up helped the captain's cause, who compiled an astonishing 175, the first-ever century by an Indian in the World Cup.