37 years ago, on the basis of these players, Team India won the World Cup

New Delhi, Vikash Gaur. The year 1983, Date 25 June, Day Saturday, Maidan Lords (London), Combat World Cup 1983 Final, Teams - India vs West Indies. If this historic day is merged in a line, then there will be some way that India defeated the West Indies by 43 runs to win the World Cup 1983 title. However, how hard the Indian team must have worked behind it and how the team's journey must have been, it is known only by the team captained by Kapil Dev.

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The Indian team had done the job of making cricket a religion in India by winning the World Cup title 37 years ago. After this, cricket became very popular in India and everyone wanted to play cricket and Cricket World Cup for the country. Kapil Dev, the captain of this team, himself has confessed that he had never felt that his team would be able to play the final of the World Cup.

Kapil Dev No team before the start of the tournament would have thought that the Indian team would play the final and win the title against the team who won the first two World Cups and put them in their bag. This was possible due to Captain Kapil Dev and his united team. India started the tournament with a win. India defeated the West Indies team in their first match, which was the strongest team at that time.

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After this, India defeated Zimbabwe's team. However, India lost to Australia and West Indies in their third and fourth matches respectively. Again in the fifth match, India beat Zimbabwe and kept their hopes of reaching the semi-finals alive. At the same time, India defeated Australia in the sixth match. India faced hosts England in the semi-finals, with the hosts being routed by Kapil Dev & Co. by 6 wickets.

History had been created by now, as the Indian team had not played the semi-finals once in the last two World Cup tournaments, but here the team played and won the semi-finals and made it to the final, where the Indian team faced on 25 June 1983 Had to be from the Caribbean team. The match started on time and the West Indies team won the toss and decided to bowl, as the team had deadly bowlers like Andy Roberts, Joel Garner, Malcolm Marshall, and Michael Holding. In this match of 60-60 overs, the Indian team had to bat first and the team collapsed in front of these storm bowlers for just 183 runs in 54.4 overs.

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For India, K Srikanth scored 38 runs, Sandeep Patil 27 runs, Mohinder Amarnath 26 runs, Madan Lal 17 runs, Captain Kapil Dev 15 runs, Syed Kirmani 14 runs, Balwinder Sandhu and Yashpal Sharma 11-11 Played an innings of runs. It seems clear that all the players got off to a good start but could not play any big innings. On the other hand, from the West Indies, Roberts took 3, Malcolm Marshall, Michael Holding, and Larry Gomes took 2-2 wickets.

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With 183 runs on the board and batsmen like Viv Richards, Desmond Haynes, Clive Lloyd, and Gordon Greenez in the front team, these scores seemed low, but the Indian bowlers bowled together in such a way that the Caribbean batsmen could not open. That is why no batsman could play a good inning except Viv Richards 33 runs and Jeff Dujon 25 runs. Madan Lal and Mohinder Amarnath took 3-3 wickets for India and smashed the West Indies team for 140 runs in 52 overs to register a historic victory by 43 runs.