Historic Performances Of Indians In World Cup

By siliconindia | Friday, 06 February 2015, 12:31 Hrs

#4. Kapil Dev's 175* vs Zimbabwe, 1983

kapil The 1983 World Cup Kapil dev lifted the cup for the first time beating the West India giants who were the champions in the last two outings. But reaching there and being able to lift high, Kapil had to strive hard.

His elevation as the captain of the team would have given jitters to him as handling the national side in the world cup, but the seniors in the board were confident of his capability.

Being an all rounder, ,he capitalized India when it was downtrodden by the Zimbabwe bowlers utilizing the pitch to their strength reducing India to 9 for 4. After Kapil walked in, India fell yet again making it 17 for 5 this raze of bowling would’ve crushed India if Kapil Dev hadn’t rescued the team with a phenomenal knock of 175.

Playing carefully till the 49^th over to stay increase, the left over 11 overs saw his stroke play, his bat thumping every ball to scrunch 75 from them.