1987 Cricket World Cup Group A

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Overall

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	RR
1	India	6	5	1	0	0	20	5.413
2	Australia	6	5	1	0	0	20	5.193
3	New Zealand	6	2	4	0	0	8	4.887
4	Zimbabwe	6	0	6	0	0	0	3.757

Source: ESPNcricinfo, The Age

Australia vs India

9 October 1987 Scorecard

Australia   270/6 (50 overs)	v	India 269 (49.5 overs)
Geoff Marsh 110 (141) Manoj Prabhakar 2/47 (10 overs)		Navjot Sidhu 73 (79) Craig McDermott 4/56 (10 overs)

Australia won by 1 run MA Chidambaram Stadium, Madras, India Umpires: David Archer (England) and Dickie Bird (England) Player of the match: Geoff Marsh (Australia)

Navjot Sidhu (India) and Tom Moody (Aus) made their ODI debuts

New Zealand vs Zimbabwe

10 October 1987 Scorecard

New Zealand   242/7 (50 overs)	v	Zimbabwe 239 (49.4 overs)
Martin Crowe 72 (88) Ali Shah 2/42 (9 overs)		David Houghton 142 (137) Willie Watson 2/36 (10 overs)

New Zealand won by 3 runs Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad, India Umpires: Mahboob Shah (Pakistan) and PW Vidanagamage (Sri Lanka) Player of the match: David Houghton (Zimbabwe)

Australia vs Zimbabwe

13 October 1987 Scorecard

Australia   235/9 (50 overs)	v	Zimbabwe 139 (49.4 overs)
Allan Border 67 (88) Kevin Curran 2/29 (8 overs)		Kevin Curran 30 (38) Simon O'Donnell 4/39 (9.4 overs)

Australia won by 96 runs MA Chidambaram Stadium, Madras, India Umpires: Khizer Hayat(Pakistan) and David Shepherd (England) Player of the match: Steve Waugh (Australia)

India vs New Zealand

14 October 1987 Scorecard

India   252/7 (50 overs)	v	New Zealand 236/8 (50 overs)
Navjot Sidhu 75 (71) Dipak Patel 3/36 (10 overs)		Ken Rutherford 75 (95) Maninder Singh 2/40 (10 overs)

India won by 16 runs M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, India Umpires: David Archer (West Indies) and Dickie Bird (England) Player of the match: Kapil Dev (India)

Zimbabwe vs India

17 October 1987 Scorecard

Zimbabwe   135 (44.2 overs)	v	India 136/2 (27.5 overs)
Andrew Pycroft 61 (102) Manoj Prabhakar 4/19 (8 overs)		Dilip Vengsarkar 46* (37) John Traicos 2/27 (8 overs)

India won by 8 wickets Wankhede Stadium, Bombay, India Umpires: Mahboob Shah (Pakistan) and David Shepherd (England) Player of the match: Manoj Prabhakar (India)

Australia vs New Zealand

18 October 1987 Scorecard

Australia   199/4 (30 overs)	v	New Zealand 196/9 (30 overs)
David Boon 87 (96) Martin Snedden 2/36 (6 overs)		Martin Crowe 58 (48) Steve Waugh 2/36 (6 overs)

Australia won by 3 runs Nehru Stadium, Indore, India Umpires: David Archer (West Indies) and Khizer Hayat (Pakistan) Player of the match: David Boon (Australia)

• No play on 18 October due to rain. Reserve day on 19 October used, further rain reduced match to 30 overs per side.

India vs Australia

22 October 1987 Scorecard

India 289/6 (50 overs)	v	Australia 233 (49 overs)
Dilip Vengsarkar 63 (60) Craig McDermott 3/61 (10 overs)		David Boon 62 (59) Mohammad Azharuddin 3/19 (3.5 overs)

India won by 56 runs Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi, India Umpires: Khalid Aziz (Pakistan) and David Shepherd (England) Player of the match: Mohammad Azharuddin (India)

• Andrew Zesers (Aus) made his ODI debut.

Zimbabwe vs New Zealand

23 October 1987 Scorecard

Zimbabwe   227/5 (50 overs)	v	New Zealand 228/6 (47.4 overs)
Andrew Pycroft 52 (46) Stephen Boock 2/43 (10 overs)		Jeff Crowe 88 (105) Ali Shah 2/34 (10 overs)

New Zealand won by 4 wickets Eden Gardens, Kolkata, India Umpires: Khizer Hayat (Pakistan) and PW Vidanagamage (Sri Lanka) Player of the match: Jeff Crowe(New Zealand)

Zimbabwe vs India

26 October 1987 Scorecard

Zimbabwe   191/7 (50 overs)	v	India 194/3 (42 overs)
Kevin Arnott 60 (126) Chetan Sharma 2/41 (10 overs)		Navjot Sidhu 55 (61) Peter Rawson 2/46 (8 overs)

India won by 7 wickets Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad, India Umpires: David Archer (West Indies) and Dickie Bird (England) Player of the match: Kapil Dev (India)

Australia vs New Zealand

27 October 1987 Scorecard

Australia   251/8 (50 overs)	v	New Zealand 234 (48.4 overs)
Geoff Marsh 126 (149) Willie Watson 2/46 (8 overs)		John Wright 61 (82) Allan Border 2/27 (7 overs)

Australia won by 17 runs Sector 16 Stadium, Chandigarh, India Umpires: Khizer Hayat (Pakistan) and David Shepherd (England) Player of the match: Geoff Marsh (Australia)

Australia vs Zimbabwe

30 October 1987 Scorecard

Australia   266/5 (50 overs)	v	Zimbabwe 196/6 (50 overs)
David Boon 93 (101) John Traicos 2/45 (10 overs)		Andrew Pycroft 38 (46) Tim May 2/30 (10 overs)

Australia won by 70 runs Barabati Stadium, Cuttack, India Umpires: Mahboob Shah (Pakistan) and PW Vidanagamage (Sri Lanka) Player of the match: David Boon (Australia)

New Zealand vs India

31 October 1987 Scorecard

New Zealand   221/9 (50 overs)	v	India 224/1 (32.1 overs)
Dipak Patel 40 (51) Chetan Sharma 3/51 (10 overs)		Sunil Gavaskar 103* (88) Willie Watson 1/50 (10 overs)

India won by 9 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur, India Umpires: Dickie Bird (England) and David Shepherd (England) Player of the match: Sunil Gavaskar and Chetan Sharma (Both India)

• Chetan Sharma (Ind) became the first bowler to take a Hat-Trick in a World Cup Match and he also became the first bowler for India to take a hat-trick in an ODI when he clean bowled Ken Rutherford, Ian Smith and Ewen Chatfield of New Zealand off consecutive balls.

External links

• Cricket World Cup 1987 from ESPNcricinfo