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Match Date : October 22, 1987
Venue : Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Toss : Australia won the toss and elected to field first
Umpires : Khalid Aziz and David Shepherd
Match Result : India won by 56 runs
Man of the Match : Mohd. Azharuddin
India (50 Overs Maximum)
Krish Srikkanth c Dyer b McDermott 26 (37) 3 ‘4s’
Sunil Gavaskar b O’Donnell 61 (72) 7 ‘4s’
Navjoth Sidhu c Moody b McDermott 51 (70) 2 ‘4s’
Dilip Vengsarkar c O’Donnell b Reid 63 (60) 3 ‘4s’ 2 ‘6s’
Kapil Dev (C) c Dyer b McDermott 3 (5)
Mohd. Azharuddin not out 54 (45) 5 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Ravi Shastri c & b Waugh 8 (7) 1 ‘4s’
Kiran More (WK) not out 5 (4)
Chetan Sharma
Manoj Prabhakar
Maninder Singh
Extras : 18 (Wides: 11 No Balls: 0 Byes: 1 Leg Byes: 6)
Total : 289/6 (Overs: 50.0)
Fall of Wickets : 1-50 (Srikkanth), 2-125 (Gavaskar), 3-167 (Sidhu), 4-178 (Kapil Dev), 5-243 (Vengsarkar), 6-274 (Shastri)
Australia Bowling
O’Donnell 9-1-45-1
Reid 10-0-65-1
Waugh 10-0-59-1
McDermott 10-0-61-3
Moody 2-0-15-0
Zesers 9-1-37-0
Australia (Target : 290 from 50 Overs)
Geoff Marsh st More b Maninder Singh 33 (56) 2 ‘4s’
David Boon c More b Shastri 62 (59) 7 ‘4s’
Dean Jones c Kapil Dev b Maninder Singh 36 (55)
Allan Border (C) c Prabhakar b Maninder Singh 12 (24)
Steve Waugh c Sidhu b Kapil Dev 42 (52) 3 ‘4s’
Tom Moody run out 2 (6)
Simon O’Donnell b Azharuddin 5 (10)
Greg Dyer (WK) c Kapil Dev b Prabhakar 15 (12) 1 ‘6s’
Craig McDermott c and b Azharuddin 4 (5)
Andrew Zesers not out 2 (11)
Bruce Reid c Sidhu b Azharuddin 1 (6)
Extras : 19 (Wides: 8 No Balls: 0 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 11)
Total : 233 all out (Overs: 49.0)
Fall of Wickets : 1-88 (Marsh), 2-104 (Boon), 3-135 (Border), 4-164 (Jones), 5-167 (Moody), 6-182 (O’Donnell), 7-214 (Dyer), 8-227 (McDermott), 9-231 (Waugh), 10-233 (Reid)
India Bowling
Kapil Dev 8-1-41-1
Prabhakar 10-0-56-1
Maninder Singh 10-0-34-3
Shastri 10-0-35-1
Sharma 7.1-0-37-0
Azharuddin 3.5-0-19-3