a5468 o474 wc80	India v New Zealand
	Reliance World Cup 1987/88 (Group A)
Venue	Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur on 31st October 1987 (50-over match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat
Result	India won by 9 wickets
Points	India 4; New Zealand 0
Umpires	HD Bird, DR Shepherd
Player of the Match	SM Gavaskar, C Sharma

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New Zealand innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s	S-Rate
JG Wright	run out	35	59	90	4	-	59.32
PA Horne	b Prabhakar	18	35	49	1	-	51.43
MD Crowe	c Pandit b Azharuddin	21	24	35	2	-	87.50
KR Rutherford	b Sharma	26	54	79	1	-	48.15
*JJ Crowe	b Maninder Singh	24	24	22	3	-	100.00
DN Patel	c Kapil Dev b Shastri	40	51	45	3	-	78.43
MC Snedden	run out	23	28	42	2	-	82.14
+IDS Smith	b Sharma	0	1	1	-	-	0.00
EJ Chatfield	b Sharma	0	1	1	-	-	0.00
W Watson	not out	12	25	31	1	-	48.00
DK Morrison	did not bat
Extras	(14 lb, 1 nb, 7 w)	22
Total	(9 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs)	221
Fall of wickets:
1-46 (Horne), 2-84 (MD Crowe), 3-90 (Wright), 4-122 (JJ Crowe), 5-181 (Patel), 6-182 (Rutherford), 7-182 (Smith), 8-182 (Chatfield), 9-221 (Snedden)

India bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls	S-Rate	Econ
Kapil Dev	6	0	24	0	-	-	-	4.00
Prabhakar	7	0	23	1	-	-	42.00	3.29
Sharma	10	2	51	3	-	-	20.00	5.10
Azharuddin	7	0	26	1	-	-	42.00	3.71
Maninder Singh	10	0	51	1	-	-	60.00	5.10
Shastri	10	1	32	1	-	-	60.00	3.20

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India innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s	S-Rate
K Srikkanth	c Rutherford b Watson	75	58	80	9	3	129.31
SM Gavaskar	not out	103	88	149	10	3	117.05
M Azharuddin	not out	41	51	68	5	-	80.39
NS Sidhu	did not bat
DB Vengsarkar	did not bat
*Kapil Dev	did not bat
RJ Shastri	did not bat
+CS Pandit	did not bat
M Prabhakar	did not bat
C Sharma	did not bat
Maninder Singh	did not bat
Extras	(1 lb, 2 nb, 2 w)	5
Total	(1 wicket, 32.1 overs)	224
Fall of wickets:
1-136 (Srikkanth)

New Zealand bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls	S-Rate	Econ
Morrison	10	0	69	0	-	-	-	6.90
Chatfield	4.1	1	39	0	-	-	-	9.36
Snedden	4	0	29	0	-	-	-	7.25
Watson	10	0	50	1	-	-	60.00	5.00
Patel	4	0	36	0	-	-	-	9.00

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Notes
--> PA Horne made his debut in World Cup matches
--> DK Morrison made his debut in ODI matches
--> DK Morrison made his debut in World Cup matches
--> CS Pandit made his debut in World Cup matches
--> PA Horne made his last appearance in ODI matches
--> PA Horne made his last appearance in World Cup matches
--> JJ Crowe made his last appearance in World Cup matches
--> MC Snedden made his last appearance in World Cup matches
--> EJ Chatfield made his last appearance in World Cup matches
--> DB Vengsarkar made his last appearance in World Cup matches
--> PA Horne passed his previous highest score of 17 in ODI matches
--> JJ Crowe passed 2000 runs in List A matches when he reached 8
--> DN Patel passed his previous highest score of 13 in World Cup matches
--> DN Patel passed his previous highest score of 36 in ODI matches
--> K Srikkanth passed his previous highest score of 70 in World Cup matches
--> SM Gavaskar passed his previous highest score of 65 in World Cup matches
--> SM Gavaskar made his first century in World Cup matches
--> SM Gavaskar passed his previous highest score of 92 in ODI matches
--> SM Gavaskar made his first century in ODI matches
--> SM Gavaskar passed 500 runs in World Cup matches when he reached 46
--> SM Gavaskar passed 3000 runs in ODI matches when he reached 15
--> SM Gavaskar passed 4500 runs in List A matches when he reached 13
--> DK Morrison made his debut for New Zealand in List A matches
--> PA Horne made his debut in India in List A matches
--> PA Horne made his debut in India in ODI matches
--> DK Morrison made his debut in India in List A matches
--> C Sharma achieved his best innings bowling analysis in World Cup matches when he dismissed EJ Chatfield in the New Zealand innings (previous best was 2-41)
--> C Sharma took a hat-trick in the New Zealand innings (Rutherford, Smith, Chatfield)

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