Match 9 - India vs Sri Lanka at Old Trafford, Manchester

1979 World Cup, Match 9 - In one of the biggest upsets of 1979 world cup, associated nation Sri Lanka beat India by 47 runs at Old Trafford in Manchester. Duleep Medis was awarded man of the match for his brilliant fifty.

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1979 World Cup, Match 9 - 16th June 1979, India vs Sri Lanka at Old Trafford in Manchester, Scorecard

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⇒ Toss: India won the toss and elected to field first
⇒ Umpires: KE Palmer and AGT Whitehead
⇒ Match Result: Sri Lanka won by 47 runs
⇒ Man of the Match: Duleep Mendis

Sri Lanka Batting

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⇒ Bandula Warnapura c Gaekwad b Amarnath 18
⇒ Sidath Wettimuny c Vengsarkar b Kapil Dev 67
⇒ Roy Dias c and b Amarnath 50
⇒ Duleep Mendis (C) run out 64
⇒ Ranjan Madugulle c Khanna b Amarnath 4
⇒ Sudath Pasqual not out 23
⇒ Somachandra de Silva not out 1
⇒ Did not bat - Sunil Jayasinghe (WK), Tony Opatha, Stanley De Silva, Ranjan Gunatilleke

Extras : 11 (Wides : 2 No Balls: 1 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 8)

Total : 238/5 (Overs : 60.0)

Fall of Wickets : 1-31 (Warnapura), 2-127 (Wettimuny), 3-147 (Dias), 4-175 (Madugalle), 5-227 (Mendis)

India Bowling

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⇒ Kapil Dev 12-2-53-1
⇒ Ghavri 12-0-53-0
⇒ Amarnath 12-3-40-3
⇒ Bedi 12-2-37-0
⇒ Venkataraghavan 12-0-44-0

India Batting

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⇒ Sunil Gavaskar c Dias b Warnapura 26
⇒ Anshuman Gaekwad c sub (GRA de Silva) b Stanley de Silva 33
⇒ Dilip Vengsarkar c Stanley de Silva b Somachandra de Silva 36
⇒ Gundappa Viswanath run out 22
⇒ Brijesh Patel b Somachandra de Silva 10
⇒ Kapil Dev c Warnapura b Stanley de Silva 16
⇒ Mohinder Amarnath b Somachandra de Silva 7
⇒ Karsan Ghavri c Warnapura b Opatha 3
⇒ Surender Khanna (WK) c Dias b Opatha 10
⇒ Venkataraghavan (C) not out 9
⇒ Bishan Singh Bedi c Jayasinghe b Opatha 5

Extras : 14 (Wides: 3 No Balls: 1 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 10)

Total : 191 all out (Overs: 54.1)

Fall of Wickets : 1-60 (Gavaskar), 2-76 (Gaekwad), 3-119 (Viswanath), 4-132 (Patel), 5-147 (Vengsarkar), 6-160 (Kapil Dev), 7-162 (Amarnath), 8-170 (Ghavri), 9-185 (Khanna), 10-191 (Bedi)

Sri Lanka Bowling

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⇒ Opatha 10.1-0-31-3
⇒ Gunatilleke 9-1-34-0
⇒ Warnapura 12-0-47-1
⇒ Stanley de Silva 12-0-36-2
⇒ Somachandra de Silva 11-1-29-3

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