Watch the highlights of India vs England 2nd Semi-Final Reliance World Cup 1987 - Reliance World Cup 1987 tournament of the second Semi-final played between England and India at Wankhede Stadium, Bombay in 05th November 1987.
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Opener Graham Gooch's classy century and Captain Mike Gatting's solid half-century before Eddie Hemmings' four-wickets and Neil Foster's three-wickets gives England stunning 35-run victory over defending champions India, despite a Mohammad Azharuddin's fighting 64 and storm into the finals in the second semi-final of a Reliance World Cup.
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England scored 254-6 in 50 overs with top scorer by Graham Gooch struck 115 off 136-balls - which was his 5th ODI hundred, his first century against India in ODIs and also his first century in World Cups.
Mike Gatting struck 56 off 62-balls including 5-fours and Allan Lamb scored a unbeaten 32 off 29-balls included 2-fours.
India best bowler by Maninder Singh picked up 3-wickets, Kapil Dev took 2-wickets and one for Chetan Sharma.
India scored 219 for all-out in 45.3 overs with top scorer by Mohammad Azharuddin struck 64 off 74-balls including 7-fours.
Kris Srikkanth cracked a 31 off 55-balls including 4-fours, Kapil Dev hit 30 off 22-balls included 3-fours.
Chandrakant Pandit hit 24 off 30-balls including 3-fours, Navjot Sidhu scored 22 off consuming 40-balls without a boundary and Ravi Shastri hit 21 off 32-balls included 2-fours.
England best bowler by Eddie Hemmings claimed a career-best 4-wickets for 52-runs in 9.3-overs including a maiden, Neil Foster picked up 3-wickets, Gladstone Small, John Emburey and Phil DeFreitas each took one-wickets
Graham Gooch named Player of the match for his classy batting performance to scored a 115-runs knocked off facing 136-balls including 11-fours.
This match reported by SMH Staff (Third Party Reference from SMH)
England set fire to the script already torn up by Australia when they beat champions India by 35 runs in the second World Cup cricket semi-final here today.
England's win with 4.3 overs. remaining was as unexpected as Australia's 18-run victory over Pakistan in Lahore had been yesterday.
So instead of the two host teams contesting Sunday's final in Calcutta, as had seemed likely before the semi-finals, it will be international cricket's two founding nations who meet in the massive Eden Gardens Stadium, each seeking to win the trophy for the first time.
India, replying to an England total of 6-254 built around an innings of 115 by opener Graham Gooch, recovered well after a poor start and when they arrived at the final 10 overs needing only 56 to win with five wickets in hand, victory looked theirs for the taking.
But rather than a methodical pursuit of victory, the Indian batsmen opted for a series of rash and reckless strokes and the match ended off the third ball of the 45th over when Ravi Shastri skied a catch off Eddie Hemmings to wicketkeeper Paul Downton.
India were all out for 219 having been 5-204 at the start of the 42nd over. Earlier Hemmings, England's 38-year-old off-spinner, had been hit out of the attack by Mohammad Azharuddin, India's top scorer with 64, and Chandrakant Pandit, the reserve wicketkeeper, who was brought in as a batsman for the ailing Dilip Vengsarkar.
Hemmings's first three overs had gone for 26 runs but he returned to bowl the 34th over and it was his intelligent use of varied pace and line that drew the Indian batsmen to their destruction. His remaining 6.3 overs brought him four of the last six wickets at a cost of 26 runs.
England's victory was set up by Gooch who hit his fifth one-day international hundred.
On a slow pitch, neither Gooch nor the other England batsmen managed to play their strokes with any great freedom.
Kapil Dev, India's captain, chose to field first and was well served by his bowlers and fielders..
pace and line that drew the Indian batsmen to their destruction. His remaining 6.3 overs brought him four of the last six wickets at a cost of 26 runs.
England's victory was set up by Gooch who hit his fifth one-day international hundred.
On a slow pitch, neither Gooch nor the other England batsmen managed to play their strokes with any great freedom.
Kapil Dev, India's captain, chose to field first and was well served by his bowlers and fielders. Left-arm spinner Maninder Singh took three wickets, including those of Gooch and Mike Gatting, England's third-wicket pair who added 117 between the 22nd and 41st overs. Gatting made 56 off 62 balls.
Gooch's innings was purposeful rather than robust. He struck 10 fours off his 136 balls and most of his runs were worked away. He rarely trusted himself to drive through the ball in front of the wicket.
Maninder and fellow left-arm spinner Shastri maintained a strict leg-stump attack and for a time while Gooch and Gatting were together the sweep was about the only batting stroke employed. The two fielders posted behind square on the leg side were constantly in action.
Maninder gave away 54 runs, 15 of them in his ninth over which also included Gatting's wicket. Having taken 14 off the previous four balls, Gatting was bowled pulling the ball on to his stumps as he attempted yet another sweep.
With the first ball of his next over, the 43rd of the innings, Maninder had Gooch caught. Here again the sweep undid him, the ball soaring off a top edge to Krishna Srikkanth running to his right at mid-wicket.
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