What followed 1932, Aug. 10 -- The first Test match between England and India was played at Lord's in June 1932. England won by 158 runs. India had been playing Test cricket for eight months. The result was as predictable as anything in sport can be when one side has been playing a format for sixty years and the other has not. What followed across the next ninety years was considerably less predictable.

across Test series, World Cups, bilateral contests, and every format cricket has invented since - is the sport's most transformed rivalry. The team that lost at Lord's by 158 runs became the engine of world cricket's finances, the only touring party whose arrival determines broadcast revenues on the English circuit, and the side that has ...