How did Kapil's Indian team miss the chance to win 2nd world cup?

[eternalhope]

Maninder bowled brilliantly the whole tournament and Gooch succeeds in countering him with the sweep. It was his day. Vengsarkar sitting out with food poisoning was a big setback. Still had chances till Kapil's rush of blood while batting. It was a great opportunity lost. Pakistan lost the previous day to Australia.

 

This was the tournament when a lot of people in India watched the game live for the first time on TV as in 1983 TV network hasn't found way to the interiors. 

[youngindia]

This is an exaggerration. India barely won any series against strong teams even at home  during those days.

During the 1987 series, Pakistan was beating us from nowhere time and again.

 

The Australian side was still finding its feet but it would not have been easy in the final

 

The decision to drop Amarnath came to bite the team in the semis. Vengsarkar was down and Pandit, a young keeper cannot fill in a huge vacuum.

 

I remember the match.Gatting and Foster had dominated India in the 1984 series and they returned as tormentors again.

 

Gooch and Gatting put on a huge partnership .Gooch was very annoying ,sweeping left and right. The spinners were totally clueless.Lamb came up with some useful slog in the end.

 

250 was like 320 in the last WC semis. It was really tricky.

 

The chase never took off with Gavaskar dismissed in  his last match very early . Foster ripped out Sidhu ,Srikanth and Pandit in a crucial spell. I never got the impression we were close to a win, We were always behind. It was down to Kapil. he tried to lift up the tempo. But he was hit and miss. once he was out, i had a feeling it was gone.

 

Azhar was playing a dogged knock but in those days he was known to crawl during ODI's....Shastri was  a reasonable finisher but he was not a great player...52 from 10 was very challenging those days and with the last recognised pair, we were up against the wall. If More had done well, we would have a chance. but he played poorly.

 

A second world cup win would be overestimating what was really a mid tier side.too good to happen.

Edited June 19, 2018 by youngindia
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[vvvslaxman]

13 hours ago, rkt.india said:

we are talking about 80s, 52 in 10 was like mountain in those days.

No. It was easy. Everyone believed it was going to be a piece of cake. We cannot blindly assume 52 in 10 was difficult. India scored 132 runs in 16 overs against NZ in the same world cup If anything those days slog overs are where they score heavily. 

Edited June 19, 2018 by vvvslaxman