Benson & Hedges World Championship of Cricket - final
India won by 8 wickets (with 17 balls remaining)
- ODI no. 319 | 1984/85 season
- Played at Melbourne Cricket Ground (neutral venue)
- 10 March 1985 - day/night (50-over match)
| Pakistan innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| Mudassar Nazar | c †Viswanath b Kapil Dev | 14 | 42 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 35.89 | |
| Mohsin Khan | c Azharuddin b Kapil Dev | 5 | 19 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 29.41 | |
| Rameez Raja | c Srikkanth b Sharma | 4 | 31 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| Qasim Umar | b Kapil Dev | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Javed Miandad* | st †Viswanath b Sivaramakrishnan | 48 | 116 | 92 | 2 | 0 | 52.17 | |
| Imran Khan | run out | 35 | 88 | 67 | 2 | 0 | 52.23 | |
| Saleem Malik | c Sharma b Sivaramakrishnan | 14 | 19 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Wasim Raja | not out | 21 | 42 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 80.76 | |
| Tahir Naqqash | c †Viswanath b Shastri | 10 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 125.00 | |
| Anil Dalpat† | c Shastri b Sivaramakrishnan | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Azeem Hafeez | not out | 7 | 28 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| Extras | (b 7, lb 8, w 1, nb 2) | 18 | ||||||
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| Total | (9 wickets; 50 overs) | 176 | (3.52 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| N Kapil Dev | 9 | 1 | 23 | 3 | 2.55 | |||
| C Sharma | 7 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 2.42 | |||
| S Madan Lal | 6 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 2.50 | |||
| M Amarnath | 9 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 3.00 | |||
| RJ Shastri | 10 | 0 | 44 | 1 | 4.40 | |||
| L Sivaramakrishnan | 9 | 0 | 35 | 3 | 3.88 |
| India innings (target: 177 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| RJ Shastri | not out | 63 | 191 | 148 | 3 | 0 | 42.56 | |
| K Srikkanth | c Wasim Raja b Imran Khan | 67 | 116 | 77 | 6 | 2 | 87.01 | |
| M Azharuddin | b Tahir Naqqash | 25 | 38 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 96.15 | |
| DB Vengsarkar | not out | 18 | 35 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 56.25 | |
| Extras | (lb 2, w 2) | 4 | ||||||
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| Total | (2 wickets; 47.1 overs) | 177 | (3.75 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat SM Gavaskar*, M Amarnath, N Kapil Dev, S Madan Lal, C Sharma, S Viswanath†, L Sivaramakrishnan |
| Fall of wickets1-103 (Srikkanth), 2-142 (Azharuddin) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| Imran Khan | 10 | 3 | 28 | 1 | 2.80 | |||
| Azeem Hafeez | 10 | 1 | 29 | 0 | 2.90 | |||
| Tahir Naqqash | 10 | 2 | 35 | 1 | 3.50 | |||
| Wasim Raja | 7.1 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 5.86 | |||
| Mudassar Nazar | 8 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 3.25 | |||
| Saleem Malik | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 7.50 |
| Match details |
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Toss Pakistan, who chose to bat Series India won the 1984/85 Benson & Hedges World Championship of Cricket |
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Player of the match
K Srikkanth (India) Player of the series RJ Shastri (India) |
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Umpires
AR Crafter and RC Isherwood |
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Match Coverage
Photos
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Mar 10, 1985 
Javed Miandad walks off after being stumped off Laxman Sivaramakrishnan © Getty Images |
Mar 1, 1985 
The Indian team celebrates winning the World Championship of Cricket © Getty Images |
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