Watch the highlights of Australia vs India 11th Match WSC 1991-92 - Benson & Hedges World Series Cup one-day international tournament of the 11th ODI match played between India and Australia at Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney in 14th January 1992.
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| An record unbeaten 167-run stand between David Boon and Tom Moody © Cricket Australia |
A tight economical bowling by Craig McDermott and Debutant Paul Reiffel before A record unbeaten 167-run stand between David Boon's 79* and Tom Moody's 87* leads to Australia easy nine-wicket victory over India and stay top of the points table in a one-sided game of the 11th match of a Benson and Hedges World Series Cup.
India scored modest total of 175 for all-out in 49.4 overs with top scorer by Kris Srikkanth cracked a 42 off 56-balls including 5-fours.
Sachin Tendulkar struck 31 off 44-balls including a boundary, Mohammad Azharuddin hit 22 off 29-balls included a four.
Ravi Shastri cracked a 22 off consuming 67-balls including a four and Sanjay Manjrekar scored 16 off consumed 51-balls without a boundary.
Australia best bowler by Craig McDermott captured two-wickets, Debutant Paul Reiffel - who took 2-wickets for 27-runs in 10-overs on his debut ODI match - including a maiden with economy rate of 2.70, Steve Waugh took two-wickets and one for Tom Moody - Mike Whitney.
Australia chased 177-1 in 39.2 overs with top scorer by Tom Moody cracked a 87 off 121-balls including 5-fours.
David Boon hit a unbeaten 79 off 101-balls including 6-fours and Geoff Marsh scored 3 off 16-balls.
India best bowler by Manoj Prabhakar took 1-wicket for 29-runs in 8-overs.
Craig McDermott named Player of the match for his economical bowling performance to capture 2-wickets for 17-runs in 10-overs including two maidens with economy rate of 1.70.
This match reported by The Canberra Times Staff (Third Party Reference from The Canberra Times)
Victorian pace-man Paul Reiffel made a triumphant debut as Australia crushed India by nine wickets in the World Series day-night cricket match at the SCG.
Reiffel was 12th man for the first Test against India and the last two World Series matches but came. through with flying colours to take 2-27 from 10 overs.
The 25-year-old all-rounder broke India's opening stand of 52 and snared the prized scalps of Kris Srikkanth for 42 and Ravi Shastri for 22.
Australia bowled tightly and sealed it with customary precision. fielding to dismiss India for 175 in 49.4 overs then cruised past the meagre target with 10.4 overs to spare.
Six people were arrested and about 50 evicted during the match. A police spokeswoman said charges included throwing missiles, entering on to the cricket field and assaulting police.
Giant West Australian Tom Moody made the most of Dean Jones's demotion to 12th man with 87 not out from 123 balls, while Tasmanian David Boon starred with the bat yet again scoring 79 not out from 100 balls.
The pair, Australia's tallest and shortest cricketers, added an unbeaten 167 for the second wicket- a record against India and also at the SCG after opener Geoff Marsh went for three in the fourth over of the chase.
The result had no bearing on the series, for India still needs to beat the West Indies in Melbourne Thursday to qualify for the best of three finals, but that didn't matter to Reiffel or Australian captain Allan Border.
"Paul didn't show any nerves and it was a tremendous effort from him," Border said afterwards.
"I was originally going to open with him but with the breeze blow- ing I thought it would be better to go with Mike Whitney."
But while Border enthused over Reiffel's success, he admitted it had created a new problem - what to do with Jones.
"That's the million-dollar question," said Border.
"When Deano fires in one-day cricket we generally win.
"He took being 12th man very well but I have said all week we need another strike bowler since Bruce Reid was injured.
"We don't know what we'll do but we've got a bit of soul searching to do."
Jones is widely regarded as the world's best limited-overs cricketer but was dropped today because of his recent poor form. Meanwhile Reiffel, who replaced Jones, was all smiles.
"It was a good win," he said.
Border said it was very important that his side bounced back after losing to the West Indies in Brisbane on Sunday. He jarred a finger-nail attempting a difficult catch late in India's innings and decided not to bat unless required but said he would be a definite starter in Saturday's first final in Melbourne.
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