Derek Pringle looks back on his first trip to India in the late Seventies – the ultimate learning curve for any ‘young’ cricketer…

Derek Pringle

Two stories this week had me rewinding to an England Schools’ tour of India that I had the good fortune to be part of back in the winter of 1977/78. The first was England U-19’s pummelling at the hands of their Indian counterparts, though this time on home soil at Chesterfield.
The second was the news that it was only four years ago during the last World Cup in India, that England’s Women were billeted ...