1987 Cricket World Cup Group A

Main article: 1987 Cricket World Cup

## Overall

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Pos | Team  | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | RR

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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

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9 October 1987
Scorecard

Australia
270/6 (50 overs)

India
269 (49.5 overs)

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Geoff Marsh 110 (141)
Manoj Prabhakar 2/47 (10 overs)

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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

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10 October 1987
Scorecard

New Zealand
242/7 (50 overs)

Zimbabwe
239 (49.4 overs)

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Martin Crowe 72 (88)
Ali Shah 2/42 (9 overs)

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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

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13 October 1987
Scorecard

Australia
235/9 (50 overs)

Zimbabwe
139 (49.4 overs)

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Allan Border 67 (88)
Kevin Curran 2/29 (8 overs)

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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

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14 October 1987
Scorecard

India
252/7 (50 overs)

New Zealand
236/8 (50 overs)

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Navjot Sidhu 75 (71)
Dipak Patel 3/36 (10 overs)

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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

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17 October 1987
Scorecard

Zimbabwe
135 (44.2 overs)

India
136/2 (27.5 overs)

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Andrew Pycroft 61 (102)
Manoj Prabhakar 4/19 (8 overs)

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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

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18 October 1987
Scorecard

Australia
199/4 (30 overs)

New Zealand
196/9 (30 overs)

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David Boon 87 (96)
Martin Snedden 2/36 (6 overs)

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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

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22 October 1987
Scorecard

India
289/6 (50 overs)

Australia
233 (49 overs)

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Dilip Vengsarkar 63 (60)
Craig McDermott 3/61 (10 overs)

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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

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23 October 1987
Scorecard

Zimbabwe
227/5 (50 overs)

New Zealand
228/6 (47.4 overs)

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Andrew Pycroft 52 (46)
Stephen Boock 2/43 (10 overs)

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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

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26 October 1987
Scorecard

Zimbabwe
191/7 (50 overs)

India
194/3 (42 overs)

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Kevin Arnott 60 (126)
Chetan Sharma 2/41 (10 overs)

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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

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27 October 1987
Scorecard

Australia
251/8 (50 overs)

New Zealand
234 (48.4 overs)

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Geoff Marsh 126 (149)
Willie Watson 2/46 (8 overs)

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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

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30 October 1987
Scorecard

Australia
266/5 (50 overs)

Zimbabwe
196/6 (50 overs)

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David Boon 93 (101)
John Traicos 2/45 (10 overs)

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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

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31 October 1987
Scorecard

New Zealand
221/9 (50 overs)

India
224/1 (32.1 overs)

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Dipak Patel 40 (51)
Chetan Sharma 3/51 (10 overs)

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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

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* Cricket World Cup 1987 from ESPNcricinfo

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