{"id":20004,"date":"2023-09-16T01:55:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T01:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=20004"},"modified":"2023-09-16T01:55:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T01:55:26","slug":"when-indian-fans-got-an-elephant-to-the-oval-because-a-cricket-match-coincided-with-ganesh-chaturthi-and-india-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2023\/09\/16\/when-indian-fans-got-an-elephant-to-the-oval-because-a-cricket-match-coincided-with-ganesh-chaturthi-and-india-won\/","title":{"rendered":"When Indian Fans Got an Elephant to The Oval Because a Cricket Match Coincided With Ganesh Chaturthi&#8211;and India won"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>INDIA, September 13, 2023 (Scroll): Until 1971, India had never won a Test match in England (they had drawn 4 \u2013 twice because of rain \u2013 and lost 15). In 1971, India was saved by rain in the first two Test matches (though they probably walked away with honors [meaning they played well but still lost] even at Lord\u2019s). Then, at The Oval (a cricket field in South London) England secured a 71-run first-innings lead. The fourth day of the Test match coincided with Ganesh Chaturthi, and local Indian fans arranged for Bella, a three-year-old elephant from Chessington Zoo, to parade around the ground at lunch. England collapsed for 101. India scripted history the next day with what is possibly their most famous win.<br><br>To read much more from The Great Indian Cricket Circus: Amazing Facts, Stats and Everything in Between, by Joy Bhattacharjya and Abhishek Mukherjee, see source.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/scroll.in\/article\/1055746\/when-indian-fans-got-an-elephant-to-the-oval-because-a-cricket-match-coincided-with-ganesh-chaturthi\n\">https:\/\/scroll.in\/article\/1055746\/when-indian-fans-got-an-elephant-to-the-oval-because-a-cricket-match-coincided-with-ganesh-chaturthi<br><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDIA, September 13, 2023 (Scroll): Until 1971, India had never won a Test match in England (they had drawn 4,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20014,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20004\/revisions\/20014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}