World Cup (cricket): 1983

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1983

Prudential Cup: venue England

Participating teams: All seven test playing teams (now including Sri Lanka), plus Zimbabwe (selected through the ICC Trophy)

Winners: India, who defeated West Indies in the finals.

India beat Australia to reach '83 semis

gocricket.com 20 Jun 2014

At Chelmsford, Roger Binny's indefatigable spirit was on display in a famous Indian win.

India beat Australia in their final league match of the 1983 World Cup at Chelmsford. It was a do-or-die fixture, and Kapil Dev's team beat the odds to make it to their first World Cup semi-final.

Here's how it panned out:

This was an epic match in the context of India's World Cup dream. Had they lost to Australia here, they would have been ousted on the basis of Australia's better head-to-head record, and so the match at Chelmsford was one of life and death.

Coming to this match, Australia weren't in the best of shape, with their bowling especially suspect, but on this day, they managed to bowl India out for 247 in 55.5 overs. From a poor start (3 for 1), Australia were looking good on 46 for 1 when Roger Binny, in his most outstanding display of an outstanding World Cup, knocked the stuffing out of them.

In three overs, the 16th, the 17th and the 20th, Binny reduced the Aussies to 52 for 4, and the game was over as a contest. Bowling seam-up and hitting all the right places, Binny confounded the opposition with just the right pace on that wicket, and claimed match-winning figures of 8-2-29-4. In many ways, Binny was the epitome of India's spirit that summer, and it was here, at Chelmsford, that his indefatigable spirit was on display.

Kapil Dev

Ayaz Memon India Today February 5, 2015 | World Cup highlights: When the greats got going

1983.

175 runs

138 balls.

4s-16

6s-6

There have been several bigger scores, even double hundreds in the past few years, but to my mind Kapil Dev's unbeaten 175 against Zimbabwe in Tunbridge Wells remains unsurpassed in ODI cricket history.

On a seaming track, India were reeling at 9-4 when he walked out to bat. The score was soon 17-5. From there, to take the total to 266 in the company of tail-enders was an astounding feat.

Look at the hardship quotient for his innings. India faced not just a rout in the match, but also virtual elimination from the tournament. The pitch was heavily loaded in favour of the bowlers too-heavily grassed and a little damp, allowing for deadly seam movement. The manner in which Kapil Dev took these hardships in his stride belied belief. It was the unbridled expression of cricketing genius. Blessed with keen ball sense, nimble footwork and powerful arms, Kapil's counterattack left the Zimbabweans and spectators at the small ground dizzy.

The impact of his innings resonated loud and wide and changed the destiny of not only that match but the tournament as well as the future of the sport. Ironically, this knock was not recorded for posterity because official broadcaster BBC was on strike that day.

Fascinating facts about World Cups

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1983: Kapil Dev's wife went for shopping thinking India would lose India were given nil chance of upstaging West Indies in the 1983 World Cup final, so much so that Kapil Dev's wife expected defeat and went shopping. Fortunes turned and how!

1983: A shocking revelation from Madan Lal "I was not supposed to bowl the over in which I dismissed Viv Richards," expressed Madan Lal, several years after the 1983 World Cup final. Perhaps, destiny wanted the underdogs to become top dogs.

1983: A World Cup without playing a single game Interestingly, left-arm pacer Sunil Valson became the first player to win a World Cup without even featuring in a single game. Valson was selected in the Indian squad for the 1983 World Cup, but he never got a game in the tournament. Ironically, he was never picked for India again.

See also

World Cup (cricket): history <>World Cup (cricket): 1975 <>World Cup (cricket): 1979 <>World Cup (cricket): 1983 <>World Cup (cricket): 1987 <>World Cup (cricket): 1992 <>World Cup (cricket): 1996 <>World Cup (cricket): 1999 <>World Cup (cricket): 2003 <>World Cup (cricket): 2007 <>World Cup (cricket): 2011 <>World Cup (cricket): 2015