Watch the highlights of India vs England 2nd Match Benson & Hedges World Cup 1992 - Benson & Hedges World Cup tournament of the 2nd ODI match played between England and India at Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth in 22nd February 1992.
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| Ian Botham celebrates after taking a wicket of young Sachin Tendulkar © ICC / Cricket Australia |
Robin Smith's superb 91 and Graham Gooch's anchoring half-century before Dermot Reeve's three-wicket haul and A economical bowling by Ian Botham helped to England narrow 9-run victory over India in the second match of a Benson and Hedges World Cup.
England scored 236-9 in 50 overs with top scorer by Robin Smith cracked a 91 off 108-balls - who fell nine-run short of his century - including 8-fours & 2-sixes.
Graham Gooch scored 51 off 89-balls including a boundary and Neil Fairbrother cracked a 24 off 34-balls included a four.
India best bowler by Manoj Prabhakar, Kapil Dev, Javagal Srinath each took 2-wickets and one for Ravi Shastri - Subroto Banerjee.
India bowled out for 227 in 49.2 overs with top scorer by Ravi Shastri cracked a 57 off 112-balls including two boundaries.
Kris Srikkanth hit 39 off 50-balls including 7-fours, Sachin Tendulkar struck 35 off 44-balls included 5-fours, Subroto Banerjee blasted a unbeaten 25 off 16-balls contained one-six & a four with strike rate of 156.25.
Pravin Amre scored 22 off 31-balls without a boundary and Kapil Dev hit 17 off 18-balls contained 2-fours.
England best bowler by Dermot Reeve picked up 3-wickets for 38-runs in 6-overs, Ian Botham took 2-wickets and one for Phil DeFreitas.
Ian Botham named Player of the match for his excellent economical bowling performance took 2-wickets for 27-runs in 10-overs with economy rate of 2.70.
This match reported by NZPA, AAP via The Canberra Times
Ian Botham made all the difference during second World Cup match, England versus India in a day-night match in Perth, which England won by nine runs.
After top-order batsman Robin Smith had helped England's score along to 236, Botham assisted in the middle overs to restrict the opposition to 227, earning himself the man-of-the-match award.
India kept in touch with the run rate required for victory in the first 25 overs as opener Kris Srikkanth opted to follow a similar strategy to Smith.
Srikkanth wielded his bat without caution to amass 39 runs off just 50 deliveries and steer India to 2-100 after 25 overs.
But captain Graham Gooch, desperate to control the opposition scoring rate, introduced the destructive Botham into the attack and the great all-rounder produced the desired results.
After failing in his promotion to the opening batting position with just nine runs, Botham claimed the wickets of dangerous teenager Sachin Tendulkar (35) and newcomer Vinod Kambli.
Former Indian captain Ravi Shastri attempted to keep his team on track with a patient 57 runs but he rapidly ran out of support.
The quick wickets and the restrictive bowling quickly resulted in India's necessary run rate growing to seven runs per over and the lower-order batsmen never settled into the task.
Tailenders Subroto Banerjee and Javagal Srinath provided the WACA Ground crowd with excitement in the final two overs with 23 runs needed for victory.
Banerjee hit Derek Pringle for six with seven balls to go to reduce the deficit to nine runs but Botham ran out Srinath with five balls remaining in the innings.
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