The
England national cricket team toured
India in 1984β85, playing a five-match
Test series and five match ODI series versus
India. Shortly after they arrived in India, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated; with cricket in India then out of the question for a few weeks, the English team went to
Sri Lanka to play a couple of warm-up matches.
The tour was nearly called off after the Deputy High Commissioner of Western India, Percy Norris was shot dead on 27 November in
Mumbai, the day after hosting a reception for the England team.[1][2]
Azharuddin and
Ravi Shastri, in the first innings, broke the record for highest partnership for India for the fifth wicket in Tests (214 runs),[7] before it was broken by
Rahul Dravid and
VVS Laxmanin 2001.[8]
With
Graeme Fowler's involvement in partnerships of 178 and 241 runs for the first and second wickets in England's first innings, both records for the country, he became the first player since
Len Hutton in 1938 to be involved in such an instance in the same innings of a Test.[9]
This was also the first instance where two England players scored double-centuries in one innings of a Test.[9]