India's first victory in World Cup was Special
First victory is always special... India's win against East Africa in 1975 world cup was special in many sense. It was India's first victory in World cup. It was the first time any team won the match by 10 wickets.
India's win against East Africa in 1975 world cup was special in many sense. It was India's first victory in World cup. It was the first time any team won the match by 10 wickets.
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Background
India started the world cup journey with a disappointing performance against England. England thrashed them by 202 runs in the opening match of 1975 World Cup.
Match Overview
The second match was against non-test playing nation East Africa at Headingley. East Africa won the toss and elected to bat first. Against some tight bowling attack they managed to score just 120 runs and were bowled out in 55.3 overs. Madan Lal picked 3 where as Abid Ali and Mohinder Amarnath took 2 wickets each for India. It's important to mention the contribution of Bishen Singh Bedi, who though picked just 1 wicket but bowled the most economical bowling figures of World Cup (still a record) with figures of 12-8-6-1.
Scorecard - India vs East Africa at Leeds
Chasing down a small target of 121, Indian openers won the match in just 29 overs. It was the first time when a team won an ODI by 10 wickets. A different version of Sunil Gavasakar was seen. After a super slow innings against England in the opening match, Gavaskar scored 65* from just 86 balls which included 9 fours also. He was well supported by Farokh Engineer on the other end who scored an unbeaten 54. It was a great comeback by India and specially a big relief for Sunil Gavaskar who was blamed for slow batting in the first match.
Venue : Headingley, Leeds
Toss : East Africa won the toss and elected to bat first
Umpires : Dickie Bird and A Jepson
Match Result : India won by 10 wkts
Man of the Match : Farokh Engineer
East Africa Batting
- Frasat Ali b Abid Ali 12
- Samuel Walusimbi lbw b Abid Ali 16
- Praful Mehta (WK) run out 12
- Yunus Badat b Bedi 1
- Jawahir Shah b Amarnath 37
- Harilal Shah (C) c Engineer b Amarnath 0
- Ramesh Sethi c Gaekwad b Madan Lal 23
- Mehmood Quaraishy run out 6
- Zulfiqar Ali not out 2
- Prabhu Nana lbw b Madan Lal 0
- Don Pringle b Madan Lal 2
Extras : 9 (Wides: 0 No Balls: 1 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 8)
Total : 120 all out (55.3 Overs)
Fall of Wickets : 1-26 (Frasat Ali), 2-36 (Walusimbi), 3-37 (Yunus Badat), 4-56 (Mehta), 5-56 (Harilal Shah), 6-98 (Jawahir Shah), 7-116 (Sethi), 8-116 (Mehmood Quaraishy), 9-116 (Nana), 10-120 (Pringle)
India Bowling
- Abid Ali 12-5-22-2
- Madan Lal 9.3-2-15-3
- Bedi 12-8-6-1
- Venkataraghavan 12-4-29-0
- Amarnath 10-0-39-2
India Batting
- Sunil Gavaskar not out 65
- Farokh Engineer (WK) not out 54
- Did Not Bat - Anshuman Gaekwad, Gundappa Viswanath, Brijesh Patel, Eknath Solkar, Abid Ali, Madan Lal, Mohinder Amarnath, Venkataraghavan (C), Bishan Singh Bedi
Extras : 4 (Wides: 0 No Balls: 0 Byes: 4 Leg Byes: 0)
Total : 123/0 (29.5 Overs)
East Africa Bowling
- Frasat Ali 6-1-17-0
- Pringle 3-0-14-0
- Zulfiqar Ali 11-3-32-0
- Nana 4.5-0-36-0
- Sethi 5-0-20-0
