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Match Date : October 31, 1987
Venue : Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
Toss : New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat first
Umpires : David Shepherd and Dickie Bird
Match Result : India won by 9 wkts
Man of the Match : Sunil Gavaskar, Chetan Sharma
New Zealand (50 Overs Maximum)
John Wright run out 35 (59) 4 ‘4s’
Phil Horne b Prabhakar 18 (35) 1 ‘4s’
Martin Crowe c Pandit b Azharuddin 21 (24) 2 ‘4s’
Ken Rutherford b Sharma 26 (54) 1 ‘4s’
Jeff Crowe (C) b Maninder Singh 24 (24) 3 ‘4s’
Dipak Patel c Kapil Dev b Shastri 40 (51) 3 ‘4s’
Martin Snedden run out 23 (28) 2 ‘4s’
Ian Smith (WK) b Sharma 0 (1)
Ewen Chatfield b Sharma 0 (1)
Willie Watson not out 12 (25) 1 ‘4s’
Danny Morrison
Extras : 22 (Wides: 7 No Balls: 1 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 14)
Total : 221/9 (Overs: 50.0)
Fall of Wickets : 1-46 (Horne), 2-84 (Martin Crowe), 3-90 (Wright), 4-122 (Jeff Crowe), 5-181 (Patel), 6-182 (Rutherford), 7-182 (Smith), 8-182 (Chatfield), 9-221 (Snedden)
India Bowling
Kapil Dev 6-0-24-0
Prabhakar 7-0-23-1
Sharma 10-2-51-3
Azharuddin 7-0-26-1
Maninder Singh 10-0-51-1
Shastri 10-1-32-1
- Chetan Sharma became the first bowler to take a hat-trick in a World Cup match
India (Target: 222 from 50 Overs)
Krish Srikkanth c Rutherford b Watson 75 (58) 9 ‘4s’ 3 ‘6s’
Sunil Gavaskar not out 103 (88) 10 ‘4s’ 3 ‘6s’
Mohd. Azharuddin not out 41 (51) 5 ‘4s’
Navjoth Sidhu
Dilip Vengsarkar
Ravi Shastri
Kapil Dev (C)
Manoj Prabhakar
C Pandit (WK)
Chetan Sharma
Maninder Singh
Extras : 5 (Wides: 2 No Balls: 2 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 1)
Total : 224/1 (Overs: 32.1)
Fall of Wickets : 1-136 (Srikkanth)
New Zealand Bowling
Morrison 10-0-69-0
Chatfield 4.1-1-39-0
Snedden 4-0-29-0
Watson 10-0-50-1
Patel 4-0-36=0