Remember the bloke N.D. Howard? Among his men were Frank Lowson, Jack Robertson, Don Kenyon, Alan Watkins, Reg Spooner, Malcolm Hilton and Roy Tattersall. In the absence of top ranking English cricketers like Len Hutton, Cyril Washbrook, Denis Compton, Godfrey Evans and Alec Bedser who were scared to tour 'dark continent' India with its heat, germs and what not, poor Howard led his third rate England cricket team to this country in 1951-52 and even managed to win the fourth test match at Kanpur. But India finally defeated this weak English combination in the last test on a spinner's track at Madras to record its first-ever official cricket victory. This was hailed as a 'great' triumph!