Watch the highlights of New Zealand vs India 27th Match Benson & Hedges World Cup 1992 - Benson & Hedges World Cup tournament of the 27th ODI match played between India and New Zealand at Carisbrook, Dunedin on 12th March 1992.
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| Mark Greatbatch celebrates his half-century © ICC / Digital Cricket TV |
Chris Harris and Dipak Patel's combined 5-wickets before A explosive innings from Mark Greatbatch's 73 and Andrew Jones's unbeaten 67 leads to New Zealand comfortable four-wicket victory over India and make it 6 wins in a row to qualify for the semi-final in the 27th match of a Benson and Hedges World Cup.
India scored 230-6 in 50 overs with top scorer by Sachin Tendulkar struck 84 off 107-balls including 6-fours.
Mohammad Azharuddin cracked a 55 off 98-balls including 3-fours & a six, Kapil Dev blasted a 33 off 16-balls included 5-fours with strike rate of 206.25 and Sanjay Manjrekar scored 18 off 25-balls without a boundary.
New Zealand best bowler by Chris Harris picked up 3-wickets, Dipak Patel captured 2-wickets for 29-runs in 10-overs with economy rate of 2.90 and Willie Watson took one-wicket.
New Zealand chase down the target of 231 for 6 in 47.1 overs with top scorer by Mark Greatbatch struck 73 off 77-balls, Andrew Jones cracked a unbeaten 67 off 108-balls including 8-fours.
Martin Crowe hit a unbeaten 26 off 28-balls included 3-fours & a six and Ken Rutherford struck 21 off 22-balls contained 2-fours & a six.
India best bowler by Manoj Prabhakar picked up 3-wickets for 46-runs in 10-overs and Venkatapathy Raju took 2-wickets.
Mark Greatbatch named Player of the match for his match-winning his explosive innings of 73 off 77-balls including 5-fours & 4-sixes.
This match reported by REUTERS via The Canberra Times
Another explosive innings by opener Mark Greatbatch blasted New Zealand to a four-wicket victory over India, almost certainly ending the 1983 champions' World Cup semi-final hopes.
The left-hander struck 73, launching NZ on a flying start for the third time in four innings. NZ hit its first 75 runs in 15 overs in pursuit of India's 6-230 from 50 overs.
NZ won at 6-231 with 2.5 overs to spare to stretch its World Cup winning streak to six games, a feat previously achieved only by West Indies, in 1983.
India, with just five points from seven matches and only one game to play in the preliminary round, cannot realistically hope to get through.
Greatbatch, out of form during England's recent tour of NZ and only included in the third Cup game because of an injury to John Wright, has been the most exciting batsman of the tournament.
As he did to the West Indian fast bowlers on Sunday, Greatbatch charged the Indian pacemen, twice sending Kapil Dev over the mid-wicket fence.
Also like the West Indies bowlers, the Indian pacemen were so frustrated at Greatbatch's tactics that there were verbal confrontations.
First Manoj Prabhakar and then Kapil had harsh words with him.
On a day when the weather was a mixture of sunshine, rain and a whirlwind, it was the Greatbatch whirlwind the Indians found hardest to deal with.
As the batsmen applied the pressure the Indian fielding lapsed, with misfields, overthrows, and missed catches.
But Greatbatch tried once too often going for the big hit, and was finally caught in the deep by Subroto Banerjee in Venkatapathy Raju's second over.
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