Benson & Hedges World Championship of Cricket - 9th match, Group A
India won by 8 wickets (with 83 balls remaining)
- ODI no. 315 | 1984/85 season
- Played at Melbourne Cricket Ground
- 3 March 1985 (50-over match)
| Australia innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GM Wood | b Binny | 1 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 8.33 | |
| RB Kerr | b Kapil Dev | 4 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| KC Wessels | c Madan Lal b Kapil Dev | 6 | 25 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 40.00 | |
| AR Border* | b Binny | 4 | 21 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| DM Jones | c †Viswanath b Amarnath | 12 | 28 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 57.14 | |
| WB Phillips† | c Amarnath b Sivaramakrishnan | 60 | 132 | 92 | 2 | 0 | 65.21 | |
| SP O'Donnell | c Amarnath b Shastri | 17 | 67 | 51 | 1 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| GF Lawson | c & b Sivaramakrishnan | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| RM Hogg | run out | 22 | 48 | 39 | 2 | 0 | 56.41 | |
| RJ McCurdy | not out | 13 | 31 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 52.00 | |
| TM Alderman | b Binny | 6 | 18 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 31.57 | |
| Extras | (b 2, lb 9, w 5, nb 2) | 18 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 49.3 overs) | 163 | (3.29 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-5 (Kerr), 2-5 (Wood), 3-17 (Wessels), 4-17 (Border), 5-37 (Jones), 6-85 (O'Donnell), 7-85 (Lawson), 8-134 (Hogg), 9-147 (Phillips), 10-163 (Alderman) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| N Kapil Dev | 10 | 2 | 25 | 2 | 2.50 | |||
| RMH Binny | 7.3 | 0 | 27 | 3 | 3.60 | |||
| S Madan Lal | 5 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 3.60 | |||
| M Amarnath | 7 | 1 | 16 | 1 | 2.28 | |||
| L Sivaramakrishnan | 10 | 0 | 32 | 2 | 3.20 | |||
| RJ Shastri | 10 | 1 | 34 | 1 | 3.40 |
| India innings (target: 164 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| RJ Shastri | c †Phillips b O'Donnell | 51 | 133 | 94 | 5 | 0 | 54.25 | |
| K Srikkanth | not out | 93 | 168 | 115 | 12 | 0 | 80.86 | |
| M Azharuddin | lbw b Alderman | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| DB Vengsarkar | not out | 11 | 30 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 68.75 | |
| Extras | (lb 1, w 3, nb 6) | 10 | ||||||
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| Total | (2 wickets; 36.1 overs) | 165 | (4.56 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat SM Gavaskar*, M Amarnath, N Kapil Dev, S Madan Lal, RMH Binny, S Viswanath†, L Sivaramakrishnan |
| Fall of wickets1-124 (Shastri), 2-125 (Azharuddin) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| GF Lawson | 8 | 1 | 35 | 0 | 4.37 | |||
| RM Hogg | 6 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 2.66 | |||
| RJ McCurdy | 7.1 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 4.18 | |||
| TM Alderman | 8 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 4.75 | |||
| SP O'Donnell | 7 | 0 | 45 | 1 | 6.42 |
| Match details |
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Toss India, who chose to field Points India 2, Australia 0 |
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Player of the match
RJ Shastri (India) |
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Umpires
AR Crafter and PJ McConnell |
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