1979 world cup

1979 Cricket World Cup

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Cricket World Cup 1979 was held in England. 1979 Cricket World Cup final was played West Indies and England. England, under their shrewd captain, Mike Brearley, was fantastic throughout the tournament. Throughout the Cricket World Cup 1979, English team remained unbeaten; however, they lost the 1979 Cricket World Cup final against West Indies by a huge margin of 92 runs. In 1979 Cricket World Cup final, England was chasing a victory target of 287. They had a century stand for the first wicket between Geoff Boycott and Mike Brearley. However, they were too slow that some fans could have easily misunderstood, as if they were playing a five day match.

India at the 1979 World Cup

In the 1979 Cricket World Cup, India was grouped up with reigning champions the West Indies as well as New Zealand, and minnows Sri Lanka. Once again, the matches were played in 60-over ODI. India got off to a bad start after their top order capitulated to a strong West Indies, with only Gundappa Viswanath (75 from 134 balls, 7 fours) putting up any resistance. They eventually lost by 9 wickets, the only wicket being that of Desmond Haynes, nabbed LBW by Kapil Dev, as Gordon Greenidge (106 from 173 balls) put up an unbeaten West Indian century.

The Indian Squad of the 1979 World Cup composed of:
• Mohinder Amarnath
• Bishan Singh Bedi
• Kapil Dev
• Anshuman Gaekwad
• Sunil Gavaskar
• Karsan Ghavri
• Surinder Khanna (wicketkeeper)
• Brijesh Patel
• Bharath Reddy
• Yashpal Sharma
• Dilip Vengsarkar
• Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan (captain)
• Gundappa Viswanath
• India's record: 0−3
• West Indies's record: 4−0 (champions, 1 match washed out)

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