No wonder 83 felt to me like a certain way of life that we seem to be unable to hold on to now. A piece of nostalgia that made me face up to a steady sense of loss of basic human goodness and dignity.

A winning concoction of cricket, nostalgia and patriotism.

There are a lot of matches and players to cover, but Khan skates energetically through it all, sketching tactical shifts in creaseside exchanges between batsmen and deploying economic character riffs.

This sporting drama, based on actual events, is a film that you'll have seen many times before, just in different guises.