A first win in England: India and the elephant will never forget | Simon Burnton

The 1971 Oval Test was an historic one and memorable because of a sleepy captain and a pachyderm named BellaThere used to be two shops in Birmingham called Tyseley Pet Stores. While in one advert they boasted of their stocks of “puppies, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters and mice” these were not your average pet shops – by the end of the paragraph they had moved on to “our large selection of monkeys, tame chimps and latest arrival, the baby gorilla”. They imported arou