Watch the highlights of India vs West Indies Prudential World Cup Final 1983 - The Prudential World Cup tournament of the Final played between West Indies and India at Lord's, London in 25th June 1983.
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All-round display from Mohinder Amarnath and Madan Lal after a brilliant start from opener Kris Srikkanth's 38 helped to India shocking 43-run victory over defending champions West Indies and clinch the their historic first World Cup title in the final of the Prudential World Cup.
* India, a team of young mens created the biggest upset in modern cricket by beating the World champions West Indies by 43 runs in the final of the Prudential World Cup.
The result. the first tangible evidence that the men from the Caribbean, the most feared exponents of Test and one-day cricket since the mid-seventies are at last falling victim to age. and the wear and tear of playing the game 12-months a year around the world.
The Indians. led by 24-year-old all-rounder Kapil Dev, achieved what they have never been able to do away from home — courage. determination and grim application of all the tiny, but arduous demands of limited over cricket.
That meant athletic fielding. thoughtful backing up. tight bowling with particular attention to accuracy and length and, in a surprisingly Iow-scoring match, intelligent batting.
* India became the second team to win the World Cup title after West Indies' two consecutive World-Cup titles.
India scored 183 for all-out in 54.4 overs with top scorer by Kris Srikkanth struck 38 off 57-balls including 7-fours and a six, Sandeep Patil 27, Mohinder Amarnath 26, Madam Lal 17 and Kapil Dev 15.
West Indies best bowler by Andy Roberts picked up 3-wickets, Malcolm Marshall, Michael Holding, Larry Gomes each took 2-wickets and one for Joel Garner.
West Indies scored 140 for all-out in 52 overs with top scorer by Viv Richards struck 33 off 28-balls including 7-fours with strike rate of 117.85, Jeff Dujon 25 and Malcolm Marshall 18.
India best bowler by Mahinder Amarnath, Madan Lal both picked up 3-wickets, Balwinder Sandhu took 2-wickets and one for Kapil Dev - Roger Binny.
Mohinder Amarnath named Player of the match for his match-winning all-round performance to picked up 3-wickets for 12-runs in 3-overs after scoring a valuable 26-runs off consuming 80-balls including 3-fours.
India scored 183 for all-out in 54.4 overs with top scorer by Kris Srikkanth struck 38 off 57-balls including 7-fours and a six, Sandeep Patil 27, Mohinder Amarnath 26, Madam Lal 17 and Kapil Dev 15.
West Indies best bowler by Andy Roberts picked up 3-wickets, Malcolm Marshall, Michael Holding, Larry Gomes each took 2-wickets and one for Joel Garner.
West Indies scored 140 for all-out in 52 overs with top scorer by Viv Richards struck 33 off 28-balls including 7-fours with strike rate of 117.85, Jeff Dujon 25 and Malcolm Marshall 18.
India best bowler by Mahinder Amarnath, Madan Lal both picked up 3-wickets, Balwinder Sandhu took 2-wickets and one for Kapil Dev - Roger Binny.
Mohinder Amarnath named Player of the match for his match-winning all-round performance to picked up 3-wickets for 12-runs in 3-overs after scoring a valuable 26-runs off consuming 80-balls including 3-fours.
This match reported by Tony Lewis (Third Party Reference from The Daily Telegraph)
INDIA performed one of the most mystical acts in her long cricket history. Atter being bowled out for a modest 183 in the 55th over by West Indies, Kapil Dev's merry men swung. seamed and caught their way through the rich list of Caribbean batting talent to win the Prudential World Cup by 43 runs.
Mohinder Amarnath was made Man of the Match. He had batted with a high level of technique when the new ball was doing most and with a fiendishly uncomplicated piece of bowling he took three wickets for 12 runs in seven overs.
Joyful Indian crowds swarmed in front of the pavilion. The handsome captain, Kapil Dev accepted the Cup from the President of MCC, Sir Anthony Tuke. A lot of those Indians were finding a new identity, an affiliation with India by descent not by residence. They might well have been supporting England if they had been in the final.
On the other hand, many local supporters had flown into England as soon as they heard of the semi-final triumph at Old Trafford. Friends, more used to shaking hands in B.Desai Road in Bombay were greeting each other on the Edgware Road.
The victory. How did it happen? Now did India overturn all predictions? Why did so many wickets tumble so cheaply?
The ball moved quite a lot off the pitch; it swung, too, as was proved by the high number of Wides called, Seam bowlers were on top throughout the game. However, there were bright, illuminating innings, which suggested that batting might break through on a higher plane.
India, for example, could have scored 230 with more application. So be it. No one can deny that a side which beats West Indies for the third time in the last six meetings in one day cricket, is entitled to do the same on the big day. It was, indeed, quite a day.
India were put in to bat. There were many predictions of a batting collapse wholly unconnected with their talent. However, the presence of Srikkanth, flailing away. sometimes brilliantly, sometimes blindly, could have been enough to send the whole of India into palpitations. The sub-continent was viewing the whole game on colour television.
Gavaskar went cheaply in the fifth over. Unfortunately the little man made nothing of Garner's big bounce. There was movement off the pitch; batting looked like torture.
it was Sunil who remarked about the recent Indian 'tour of West Indies that leg guards were now unnecessary when facing the West Indian fast bowlers. "A good pair of boxing gloves and a helmet is all I need. It's the target area."
Amarnath and Srikkanth then put together a tenacious partnership; Amarnath the solid, correct player, Srikkanth the electrifying inventor.
Amarnath was expert at leaving the ball outside the off stump; Srikkanth was scything away with his square cover drive, cracking Holding back straight for four, and with a combination of the scoop and the pull, wafting any short-pitched bowling to the leg side.
it was Sunil who remarked about the recent Indian 'tour of West Indies that leg guards were now unnecessary when facing the West Indian fast bowlers. "A good pair of boxing gloves and a helmet is all I need. It's the target area."
Amarnath and Srikkanth then put together a tenacious partnership; Amarnath the solid, correct player, Srikkanth the electrifying inventor.
Amarnath was expert at leaving the ball outside the off stump; Srikkanth was scything away with his square cover drive, cracking Holding back straight for four, and with a combination of the scoop and the pull, wafting any short-pitched bowling to the leg side. Despite the loss of Srikkanth, India were still looking secure until they made an error before lunch.
Amarnath's patient and skilled innings had just been ended by Holding — a fast break-back slotted through the gap between bat and pad — when Yashpal Sharma committed the sin of fol-owing him back to the pavilion within a few balls, so leaving two new batsmen in the middle.
The only commiseration one can offer Yashpal is that he knew Gomes had to be attacked. West Indies had to entrust at least 12 of their overs to bowlers who do not bowl regularly. Gomes was one of them. Yashpal improvised. He aimed a stroke over extra cover and succeeded only in finding the hands of Logie at deep point.
Lloyd seized on the hiatus in India's effort to introduce his other makeshift bowler, Richards. At lunch with India 100 for four the advantage had swung West Indies' way after 32 overs.
- Working ,on the principle that " you've got to have a go at Gomes" Kapil Dev holed out at long-on, much to the dismay of Indian supporters.
Courteous Kirti Azad jabbed the ball into Garner's hands at midwicket and the dreaded word "collapse " hit the air again., 130 for seven in the 36th over was now an unequal contest. The World Cup final was fast becoming a non-event.
The great difficulty when playing against West Indies in one-day cricket is serving the need to score runs against the four fast bowlers. All the virtues of defensive play of the clever avoidance of the moving ball, are negated by the need to score.
As each ball flashes safely past off stump so another fragment of the 60 over opportunity wastes away. It nurtures frustration and when the gentle off spin of Gomes and Richards arrives the compulsion to hit the ball somewhere . . . anywhere . . . overpowers even the most experienced batsmen.
India sagged and then fought to the death. Madan Lal, Kirmani and Sandhu stretched the innings into the last overs. But the West Indies batsmen must have chuckled to see how easy batting was. Marshall was brutish, bowling a bouncer to Sandhu he struck a muffled blow on his patka-bolstered helmet. Umpire Bird remonstrated. Otherwise the tempo of run getting declined at the very point of the innings it should have been accelerating.
West Indies played stylishly towards their target. They lost Greenidge who padded up to Sandhu and lost his off stump, but Richards eased the ball around Lord's as if he was giving demonstration classes in the off-drive, the pull and the square cover drive. Victory for West Indies was only a matter of time.
The first sign of discomfort was a physical one. When Haynes had gone Clive Lloyd arrived. in the middle to a standing applause but immediately pulled up with a groin strain. Haynes returned to run for him. Cavaliers both, Richards and Lloyd put the big bat to the ball and had gloomy Indian spectators furling their flags, gorging samosas, and strengthening the whisky sodas.
Suddenly catches were hit and caught. Madan LaI dismissed three priceless West Indians for six runs in 19 balls. The course of the game was shifting. Richards hit out once too often and too high. Kapil Dev raced back from midwicket and held on to a fine catch; Kapil held Lloyd at cover; Games snicked a waist-high catch to Gavaskar at first slip. Sixty-six for five. Anyone's game.
After that, West Indies recovered in one partnership, 43 put on by Marshall and Dujon but when Dujon played the ball on to his wicket the last specialist batsman was gone. Indian fans were standing dozens deep just outside the boundary line ready to flood the field in celebration of one of the greatest moments in their history.
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