World Cup flashback: It all started in Manchester

Shastri sent behind Michael Holding and Joel Garner to safeguard a 1975 and 1979 champions mislaid their first-ever World Cup game. India triumphed by 34 runs

World Cup flashback: It all started in Manchester

It all started in Manchester

The win over West Indies in a 1983 World Cup final during Lord’s has left down in cricketing story as India’s excellent impulse in singular overs cricket. But a compare that kicked off India’s debate in that book is mostly forgotten.

Kapil Dev’s group took on Clive Lloyd’s fortifying champions in Manchester and Yashpal Sharma showed a kind of steel he is done adult of by his 89 off 120 balls. His partnerships with Sandeep Patil and Roger Binny were not outrageous though critical adequate to assistance India come adult with 262 for eight, a sum that would not have fearful a West Indies batting side that boasted of Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes, Viv Richards and Clive Lloyd.

But a middle gait of Balvinder Singh Sandhu, S Madan Lal and Roger Binny had a West Indians in a mark of bother. And when left-arm spinner Ravi Shastri had a dangerous Malcolm Marshall stumped by Syed Kirmani, improved was unavoidable before Lloyd was castled by Binny for 25. Shastri sent behind Michael Holding and Joel Garner to safeguard a 1975 and 1979 champions mislaid their first-ever World Cup game. India triumphed by 34 runs.

India 'keeper Syed Kirmani
India ‘keeper Syed Kirmani

Did we know?
Syed Kirmani fans were dumbfounded when a selectors forsaken him for a 1979 World Cup. They chose Delhi’s Surinder Khanna instead. Kirmani was also not behind a wicket for a Test debate of England in a same year when Bharat Reddy did duty. Kirmani returned to a side shortly and a Karnataka stumper ensured zero came in a approach of his preference for a subsequent World Cup where he was adjudged a ‘keeper of a 1983 tournament.

New Zealand's Dipak Patel
New Zealand’s Dipak Patel

Figured out
Dipak Patel, one of New Zealand’s star bowlers in a 1992 World Cup where he non-stop a bowling, was not effective in a prior book (1987) hold in India and Pakistan. He claimed only 4 wickets in 6 games with his off-spinners, though had a three-wicket spell opposite India, a improved players of spin bowling, in Bangalore. His victims were Navjot Singh Sidhu, Mohammed Azharuddin and Ravi Shastri.

Glenn Maxwell

Man to watch
Glenn Maxwell

Glenn Maxwell has always been a dangerous batsman, though he is a male on a goal now — dynamic to infer his detractors wrong by scoring large runs to do probity to his ability. Maxwell can be cruel on bowlers who don’t representation it right and he can give captains excited nights when he is on song. He’s a live handle in a margin and his off-spinners will be accessible for Australia if they have to urge their World Cup climax in England. His 324 runs in a final World Cup were precious for Australia.

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