1987

1987

Details:

Ø     Officially called the Reliance World Cup.

Ø     The fourth edition of the International Cricket Council's (ICC) cricket world cup.

Ø     Held from October 8 to November 8, 1987 in India and Pakistan - the first held outside England..

Ø     Had 8 participating countries. Australia, Sri Lanka, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan & West Indies(Test playing nations),Zimbabwe(Non Test playing nation).

Ø     The Preliminary matches were played in two groups of four teams each, and each country played the others in its group twice. The top two teams in each group qualified for the semi-finals.

Ø     A reduction in the number of overs a team played from 60 to 50

Administrator	ICC
Format	ODI
Tournament Format	Double Round Robin and Knock out
Host	India, Pakistan
Winners	Australia
Teams	8
No of Matches	27
Most Runs	Graham Gooch (ENG)(471)
Most Wickets	Craig McDermott (AUS)(18)

Semi Finals:

AUS VS PAK: 4 November 1987

Australia                                                                           267-6 (50 overs)

David Boon 65(91) (4 fours)

Imran Khan 3-17

Pakistan                                                                            249(all out, 49.2 overs)

Imran Khan 58(84) (4 fours)

Javed Miandad 70(103) (4 fours)

Craig McDermott 5/44

Result: Australia won by 18 runs.

Man of the Match: Craig McDermott 5/44

ENG VS IND: 5 November 1987

England                                                                             254-6(50 overs).

Graham Gooch 115(136) (11 fours)

Mike Gatting 56(62) (5 fours)

Maninder Singh 3/54

India                                                                                  219(all out, 45.3 overs)

Mohammed Azharuddin 64(74) (7 fours)

Eddie Hemmings 4/52

Result: England won by 35 runs.

Man of the Match: Graham Gooch 115(136) (11 fours)

Final:

AUS VS ENG: 8 November 1987

Australia                                                                           253-5(50 overs).

David Boon 75(125) (7 fours)

Mike Veletta 45(31) (6 fours)

Eddie Hemmings 2/48

England                                                                             246-8(50 overs)

Bill Athey 58(103) (2 fours)

Mike Gatting 41(45) (3 fours, 1 six)

Allan Lamb 45(55) (4 fours)

Steve Waugh 2/37

Chetan Sharma

Result: Australia won by 7 runs.

Man of the Match: David Boon 75(125) (7 fours)

Records:

First hat-trick in the world cup was taken by Chetan Sharma (India) in 1987 Reliance World Cup. He clean bowled Ken Rutherford, Ian Smith and Ewen Chatfield of New Zealand.

Tit Bits:

C Walsh

§         The West Indies failed to live up to expectations by not even qualifying for the semifinals (in part because of Courtney Walsh's refusal to mankad Saleem Jaffar).

§         In Semi final, England reached 254 (6 wickets, 50 overs), India made a bad start, falling to 3/73. The middle order scored fluently, with Mohammed Azharuddin, (64 from 74 balls, 7 fours) top scoring. Before Azharuddin was removed lbw by Eddie Hemmings, India were at 5/204, needing 5 runs an over from the last 10 overs, with 5 wickets in hand, and it looked like it would be a very close game. However, the middle and tailend order for India collapsed, as India lost 5/15. India were eventually bowled all out for 219 (all out, 45.3 overs).

§         The Reliance world Cup was lifted by Allan Border, captain of the Australia who got first time for his country.