Watch the highlights of India vs England 5th ODI 1993 - England tour of India 6-match one-day international series of the 5th ODI match played between England and India at Keenan Stadium, Jamshedpur on 01st March 1993.
Neil Fairbrother's unbeaten half-century steers to England convincing six-wicket victory over India took an unassailable 3-0 lead in a frightening incident game of the fifth ODI.
India scored 137-7 in the allotted 26 overs - match reduced from 50 to 26-overs per a side because of morning rain - with top scorer by Sachin Tendulkar cracked a 24 off 32-balls including a boundary.
Mohammad Azharuddin hit 23 off 22-balls including a four, Vinod Kambli cracked a 23 off 37-balls a boundary.
Pravin Amre blasted a 19 off 13-balls including 3-fours with strike rate of 146.15, Navjot Sidhu scored 18 off 28-balls included a four and Kapil Dev hit a unbeaten 15 off 13-balls contained a boundary.
England best bowler by Paul Jarvis capture 2-wickets, Devon Malcolm, Phil DeFreitas and Chris Lewis each took one-wickets.
England chase down the target of 138, finishing at 141 for 4 in 25.4 overs with top scorer by Neil Fairbrother cracked a unbeaten 53 off 52-balls, Chris Lewis cracked a 25 off 30-balls including 2-fours.
Dermot Revee hit a unbeaten 17 off 20-balls including two-fours, Robin Smith struck 17 off 27-balls included 2-fours and Graham Gooch scored 15 off 19-balls contained a boundary.
India best bowler by Kapil Dev, Salil Ankola and Manoj Prabhakar each took one-wickets.
Neil Fairbrother named Player of the match for his match-winning superb unbeaten 53 off facing 52-balls including 4-fours.
This match reported by AP via The Canberra Times
England fast bowler Devon Malcolm narrowly escaped injury in a frightening incident that overshadowed the team's fine one-day victory over India in Jamshedpur.
Fast bowler Malcolm had a six-inch long metal bolt, sharpened at one end, flung at him like a spear by a member of the unruly 25,000 capacity crowd.
It missed him by just inches, flew past and embedded itself into the ground.
England officials and players were left sickened by such an act of senseless violence which could have hurt, or even blinded, Malcolm.
Seconds earlier, Malcolm had been struck by a shower of stones as he misfielded a ball on the boundary edge. England team manager Keith Fletcher condemned sections of the Jamshedpur crowd, which pelted both England and India players throughout the game.
And the action was stopped for 10 minutes during England's innings when India's Navjot Sidhu had to flee infield from a deluge of stones, fruit and metal scoreboard numbers thrown from one corner of the ground.
Fletcher also appealed to the Indian authorities to exercise far tougher crowd control, especially as the World Cup will be held there in three years time. "Someone will get seriously hurt before long. This sort of thing is getting beyond a joke out here," he said. "Today was unacceptable. There were rocks being thrown as well, which the crowd must bring in with them.
"It has got to the stage where fielders cannot go right back on to the rope for fear of injury, and the Indian authorities have got to get their act together."
An Indian official agreed afterwards that the Jamshedpur crowd's behaviour was unacceptable.
J. Y. Lele, the joint secretary of the Indian Cricket Board, said, "It was bad behaviour. I saw the bolt being thrown at Malcolm and I have spoken about it to the match referee, the umpires and to the local authorities.
"We are taking it very seriously and the next time there is a match here measures will be taken to stop this kind of thing.
"We will also be looking into making sure this sort of thing doesn't happen at the one-day international matches in Gwalior later this week."
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