When England and India meet at the Oval for the fourth Test on Thursday, it will be just over 50 years since India's triumph at the south London ground saw them to a first match and series win on English soil.

The story of how India fans borrowed Bella the elephant from Chessington Zoo and brought her to the Oval mid-match -- something the 1971 team saw as a lucky omen as it coincided with the festival of Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu god -- has gone down in cricket history.