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When Lata Mangeshkar stepped up for Indian Cricket Team

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When Lata Mangeshkar stepped up for Indian Cricket Team

Indian cricket can be considered as the milestone on the date of June 25. The Indian team won the World Cup held in England in 1983 defeating the West Indies on the same day in 1983. Kapil Dev's Ranbanku had done this work, which nobody had ever imagined at that time. When the Indian cricket team led by Kapil Dev reached England to play this World Cup, he was being considered very weak, but after winning a match-by-match victory, the Indian team's performance touched a high point.

 

In the finals, India had a match against Clive Lloyd's West Indies team. The West Indies team at that time was very strong and it was the same champion in both the World Cup held in 1975 and 1979. In this way, everyone was ending India's campaign in the final but Kapil's jawans made the impossible possible for the Indians to win. Chasing a small score of 183 runs made by the Indian team, the West Indies had suffered a lot and it was 140 runs away. This victory of 1983 proved not only to change the status and direction of cricket. By that time the players did not get much money in the country, but this victory changed the whole picture.

 

After this big victory, the Board of Control for Cricket in India was thinking about honoring the players of the team and giving 'bigger' prizes but the problem was that they did not have much money. The game of cricket was not taken professionally till that time, and at that time the BCCI was not Rich. Swarakokila Lata Mangeshkar came forward to help the BCCI and the players in this manner.

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In order to raise money for the players' economic award, then the then BCCI president NKP Salve urged Lata Ji to organize a concert. Lata Mangeshkar, who loves cricket very quickly, got ready for it. This program was organized in the capital city of Delhi. A sum of about 20 lakh rupees was collected from this program which was awarded to the players of the Indian team as a prize. It will be said that the greatness of Lataji is that he did this program for the free BCCI. The winner of the World Cup has been the special gift of Lataji for the Indian team.

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