Watch the highlights of India vs West Indies 24th Match Benson & Hedges World Cup 1992 - Benson & Hedges World Cup tournament of the 24th ODI match played between West Indies and India at Basin Reserve, Wellington on 10th March 1992.
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| Curtly Ambrose celebrates with Anderson Cummins after taking a key wicket of Sachin Tendulkar © ICC / Digital Cricket TV |
A Pace bowler Anderson Cummins's four-wicket haul and Curtly Ambrose's economical bowling figures before Brian Lara's blazing 41 and Keith Arthurton's unbeaten half-century steers to West Indies convincing five-wicket victory over India and keep their hopes alive in the 24th match of a Benson and Hedges World Cup.
India bowled out for 197 in 49.4 overs with top scorer by Mohammad Azharuddin cracked a 61 off 84-balls including 4-fours.
Kris Srikkanth struck 40 off 70-balls including 2-fours, Ajay Jadeja cracked a 27 off consuming 61-balls included two-fours and Sanjay Manjrekar scored 27 off 40-balls without a boundary.
West Indies best bowler by Anderson Cummins claimed a 4-wickets, Curtly Ambrose captured 2-wickets for 24-runs in 10-overs including a maiden with economy rate 2.40, Carl Hooper and Phil Simmons both took one-wickets.
West Indies chase down the target of 195 for 5 in 40.2 overs - due to rain revised target of 195 from 46-overs - with top scorer by Keith Arthurton cracked a unbeaten 58 off 99-balls including 3-fours.
Brian Lara blasted a 41 off 37-balls including 6-fours & a six with strike rate of 110.81, Carl Hooper hit a unbeaten 34 off 57-balls included 3-fours.
Phil Simmons struck 22 off 20-balls including 2-fours & a six with strike rate of 110 and Desmond Haynes scored a run-a-ball 16-runs contained 3-fours.
India best bowler by Javagal Srinath captured 2-wickets for 23-runs in 9-overs including two maidens with economy rate of 2.55, Venkatapathy Raju, Kapil Dev and Manoj Prabhakar each took one-wickets.
Anderson Cummins named Player of the match for his pace bowling attack to claimed a 4-wickets for 33-runs in 10-overs.
This match reported by REUTERS via The Canberra Times
The West Indies, lifted by an unbeaten 58 from Keith Arthurton, kept alive its hopes of reaching the World Cup cricket semi-finals with a five-wicket win over India.
Arthurton and Carl Hooper, with 34 not out, shared an unbroken sixth wicket stand of 83 to guide West Indies home after a slump in which four wickets tumbled for 31.
India made a modest 197 all out in 49.4 overs, collapsing from 3-166, and the West Indians were cruising to victory at 1-81 after just 11 overs when rain halted play.
India's total was revised to 194 and West Indies, needing 195 in a total of 46 overs, slumped to 5-112.
Sensible batting from Arthurton and Hooper hauled the team out of trouble and they secured victory in 40.3 overs at 5-195.
Fast bowler Anderson Cummins, named man of the match, was the main perpetrator of India's collapse, taking four for 33 in 10 overs as the last seven wickets crashed for 31.
The West Indian victory chase was set up by a whirlwind opening stand of 57 in just over six overs between Desmond Haynes and Brian Lara.
The match had begun in fine conditions but during the interval rain threatened and that may have been the spur for West Indies to play like the team of old.
Lara smashed the Indian opening attack to all parts. He hit Manoj Prabhakar for two fours and one six in one over. Prabhakar had to be taken off after three overs which cost 32 runs.
Even the dismissal of Haynes for 16.
caught by Sanjay Manjrekar off Kapil Dev, who was also expensive, brought little relief.
Phil Simmons, playing because Malcolm Marshall was out with an ankle injury, hit a six into the terraces with his first scoring shot.
But the 20-minute rain break gave India a chance.
Lara fell for 41 three balls after the stoppage, out for the fourth successive time caught at backward point, this time taken by Manjrekar off Javagal Srinath's bowling.
Lara's runs came off just 38 deliveries and included six fours and a six. The West Indies was concerned to keep their run rate up in case the rain came again and lost Simmons, captain Richie Richardson and Gus Logie in quick succession.
Simmons went for 22 to a fine catch by Sachin Tendulkar, running towards the boundary to take a skier. He narrowly avoided a collision but bumped his head on the ground taking the catch and briefly had to leave the field.
The out-of-form Richardson went to a mistimed pull off Srinath and Logie followed after a top-edge off left-arm spinner Venkatapathy Raju.
Hooper and Arthurton only had to score at just over 3.5 runs an over and they realised it was vital to retain wickets.
Their half-century stand came in 87 balls and they seldom looked in trouble against an attack lacking teeth.
India's total should have been higher, a delightful 61 from captain Mohammad Azharuddin having left his team well placed at 3-166.
The defeat has put enormous pressure on India in its bid to qualify for the semi-finals.
India got off to a solid but sedate start with opener Kris Srikkanth unusually cautious.
The big-hitting right-hander hit his first boundary in the 12th over and, with Ajay Jadeja, had only 46 on the board after 15 overs.
They weathered the initial storm of the West Indies speed attack but medium-pacer Simmons made the breakthrough when he had Jadeja caught at mid-off for 27 with the total 56.
Srikkanth and Azharuddin added 46 before Srikkanth was caught at square leg by Logie from the off-spin of Hooper for 40, His 61-ball innings produced only two fours.
Curtly Ambrose, who had conceded only 13 runs in his first five overs, returned to dispatch Sachin Tendulkar cheaply with the aid of a catch by wicketkeeper David Williams.
Azharuddin's 85-ball innings was characterised by deft deflections and placements. He hit five fours.
None of the last six batsmen got to double figures and the slump was com pleted with two balls left when Venkatapathy Raju was run out.
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