1979 World Cup, Match 1 - West Indies beat India by 9 wickets in the opening match of 1979 World Cup. Gordon Greenidge was awarded man of the match for hisunbeaten century.


1979 World Cup, Match 1 - 9th June 1979, India vs West Indies at Edgbaston in Birmingham, Scorecard


⇒ Toss: West Indies won the toss and elected to field first
⇒ Umpires: DGL Evans and JG Langridge
⇒ Match Result: West Indies won by 9 wkts
⇒ Man of the Match: Gordon Greenidge


India Batting


⇒ Sunil Gavaskar c Holding b Roberts 8
⇒ Anshuman Gaekwad c King b Holding 11
⇒ Dilip Vengsarkar c Kallicharran b Holding 7
⇒ Gundappa Viswanath b Holding 75
⇒ Brijesh Patel run out 15
⇒ Mohinder Amarnath c Murray b Croft 8
⇒ Kapil Dev b King 12
⇒ Surender Khanna (WK) c Haynes b Holding 0
⇒ Karsan Ghavri c Murray b Garner 12
⇒ Venkataraghavan (C) not out 13
⇒ Bishan Singh Bedi c Lloyd b Roberts 13

Extras : 16 (Wides: 3 No Balls: 4 Byes: 6 Leg Byes: 3)

Total : 190 all out (Overs: 53.1)

Fall of Wickets : 1-10 (Gavaskar), 2-24 (Vengsarkar), 3-29 (Gaekwad), 4-56 (Patel), 5-77 (Amarnath), 6-112 (Kapil Dev), 7-119 (Khanna), 8-155 (Ghavri), 9-163 (Viswanath), 10-190 (Bedi)

West Indies Bowling


⇒ Roberts 9.1-0-32-2
⇒ Holding 12-2-33-4
⇒ Garner 12-1-42-1
⇒ Croft 10-1-31-1
⇒ King 10-1-36-1


West Indies Batting


⇒ Gordon Greenidge not out 106
⇒ Desmond Haynes lbw b Kapil Dev 47
⇒ Viv Richards not out 28
⇒ Did not bat - Alvin Kallicharran, Clive Lloyd (C), Collis King,Deryck Murray (WK), Andy Roberts, Joel Garner, Michael Holding, Colin Croft

Extras : 13 (Wides: 0 No Balls: 7 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 6)

Total : 194/1 (Overs: 51.3)

Fall of Wickets : 1-138 (Haynes)

India Bowling


⇒ Kapil Dev 10-1-46-1
⇒ Ghavri 10-2-25-0
⇒ Venkataraghavan 12-3-30-0
⇒ Bedi 12-0-45-0
⇒ Amarnath 7.3-0-35-0


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