{ "id": "6219", "author": "13", "cnmid": "0", "title": "Match 1 - India vs West Indies at Edgbaston", "lang": "en", "series": "7", "cup_year": "1979", "article_type": "General", "excerpt": "", "subtype": "", "editor1": "

1979 World Cup, Match 1 - West Indies beat India by 9 wickets in the opening match of 1979 World Cup. Gordon Greenidge<\/span> was awarded man of the match for hisunbeaten century.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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1979 World Cup, Match 1 - 9th June 1979, India vs West Indies at Edgbaston in Birmingham, Scorecard<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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⇒ <\/span>Toss: West Indies won the toss and elected to field first<\/span><\/span>
\r\n⇒ <\/span>Umpires: DGL Evans and JG Langridge<\/span><\/span>
\r\n⇒ <\/span>Match Result: West Indies won by 9 wkts<\/span><\/span>
\r\n⇒ <\/span>Man of the Match: Gordon Greenidge<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n
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India Batting<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n
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⇒ <\/span>Sunil Gavaskar c Holding b Roberts 8<\/span><\/span>
\r\n⇒ <\/span>Anshuman Gaekwad c King b Holding 11<\/span><\/span>
\r\n⇒ <\/span>Dilip Vengsarkar c Kallicharran b Holding 7<\/span><\/span>
\r\n⇒ <\/span>Gundappa Viswanath b Holding 75<\/span><\/span>
\r\n⇒ <\/span>Brijesh Patel run out 15<\/span><\/span>
\r\n⇒ <\/span>Mohinder Amarnath c Murray b Croft 8<\/span><\/span>
\r\n⇒ <\/span>Kapil Dev b King 12<\/span><\/span>
\r\n⇒ <\/span>Surender Khanna (WK) c Haynes b Holding 0<\/span><\/span>
\r\n⇒ <\/span>Karsan Ghavri c Murray b Garner 12<\/span><\/span>
\r\n⇒ <\/span>Venkataraghavan (C) not out 13<\/span><\/span>
\r\n⇒ <\/span>Bishan Singh Bedi c Lloyd b Roberts 13<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n
Extras : 16 (Wides: 3 No Balls: 4 Byes: 6 Leg Byes: 3)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n
Total : 190 all out (Overs: 53.1)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n
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)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n
West Indies Bowling<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n
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⇒ <\/span>Roberts 9.1-0-32-2<\/span><\/span>
\r\n⇒ <\/span>Holding 12-2-33-4<\/span><\/span>
\r\n⇒ <\/span>Garner 12-1-42-1<\/span><\/span>
\r\n⇒ <\/span>Croft 10-1-31-1<\/span><\/span>
\r\n⇒ <\/span>King 10-1-36-1<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n
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West Indies Batting<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n
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⇒ <\/span>Gordon Greenidge not out 106<\/span><\/span>
\r\n⇒ <\/span>Desmond Haynes lbw b Kapil Dev 47<\/span><\/span>
\r\n⇒ <\/span>Viv Richards not out 28<\/span><\/span>
\r\n⇒ <\/span>Did not bat - Alvin Kallicharran, Clive Lloyd (C), Collis King,Deryck Murray (WK), Andy Roberts, Joel Garner, Michael Holding, Colin Croft<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n
Extras : 13 (Wides: 0 No Balls: 7 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 6)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n
Total : 194\/1 (Overs: 51.3)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n
Fall of Wickets : 1-138 (Haynes)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n
India Bowling<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n
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⇒ <\/span>Kapil Dev 10-1-46-1<\/span><\/span>
\r\n⇒ <\/span>Ghavri 10-2-25-0<\/span><\/span>
\r\n⇒ <\/span>Venkataraghavan 12-3-30-0<\/span><\/span>
\r\n⇒ <\/span>Bedi 12-0-45-0<\/span><\/span>
\r\n⇒ <\/span>Amarnath 7.3-0-35-0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n
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