India defended 125 runs successfully against pakistan in Sharjah..!?

No matter what kind of cricket match between india and pakistan, the expectations and excitement increase among the players and fans. Let's take a look at one of such matches, the one-day tournament final held in Sharjah. 22.03.1985. Rothmans 4 Nations Cup. pakistan won the toss and decided to field first. The indian team did not start well. ravi shastri was out on the first ball he faced and came to the pavilion. Sreekanth, who was out next, scored only 6 runs. Neither of them could face Imran Khan's fine bowling. India's score was 12 - 2. imran khan took the wickets of both of them. Excluding the extra runs, only 3 players scored double figures. Mohammad Azharuddin (47), Captain kapil dev (30), madan Lal (11) and extra runs 11. In a total of 42.2 overs, the indian team lost all its wickets (all out).
The total runs scored were 125. This score increased the threat to the indian players. It was only two years ago (in 1983) that the indian team won the world cup by defeating the west indies team in England. And recently (10.03.1985) the indian team won the Benson and Hedges Cup final in australia by 8 wickets. The opponents were Pakistan. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that this 125 runs made the fans who were eagerly waiting for the indian team to win in this sharjah final feel tired. In any case, before the indian team went from to field, captain kapil dev came out with a positive attitude that we could do it and gave encouragement and enthusiasm to the players to play with confidence and commitment. Despite having good players in the Pakistani team, they could not bat. The match was in Pakistan's favor until the score was 40 - 3. The 3rd wicket was Javed Miandad (0) out.

Unable to face the balls of Laxman Sivaramakrishnan, the next 2 Pakistani wickets fell. Those players were Ashraf ali and Imran Khan.
Neither of them scored. The score was 41 - 5 and the indian team got a chance to dominate. Except for two of the next players (Saleem Malik 17) (Manzoor Elahi 9), the others could not attack at all. A total of 5 players in the Pakistani team did not score any runs. Unable to recover from that attack, the Pakistani team could only score a total of 87 runs.

The indian team won by a huge margin of 38 runs.
Kapil Dev and Sivaramakrishnan took 3 wickets each.
Imran Khan's excellent bowling did not allow them to win.

10 overs
02 maidens
14 runs
06 wickets

Sunil Gavaskar took 4 catches and was amazing. This one-day match is a good example of how a cricket match can change in any way until the end.
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Sowmiya Sriram

21/02/2025 01:47 PM