# 1987 Cricket World Cup Group A
## Overall

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | RR |
| 1 | India | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 5.413 |
| 2 | Australia | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 5.193 |
| 3 | New Zealand | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4.887 |
| 4 | Zimbabwe | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.757 |

## Australia vs India

* 9 October 1987 Scorecard
| Australia 270/6 (50 overs) | v | India 269 (49.5 overs) |
| Geoff Marsh 110 (141) Manoj Prabhakar 2/47 (10 overs) | | Navjot Sidhu 73 (79) Craig McDermott 4/56 (10 overs) |
* Australia won by 1 run MA Chidambaram Stadium, Madras, India Umpires: David Archer (England) and Dickie Bird (England) Player of the match: Geoff Marsh (Australia)
Navjot Sidhu (India) and Tom Moody (Aus) made their ODI debuts

## New Zealand vs Zimbabwe

* 10 October 1987 Scorecard
| New Zealand 242/7 (50 overs) | v | Zimbabwe 239 (49.4 overs) |
| Martin Crowe 72 (88) Ali Shah 2/42 (9 overs) | | David Houghton 142 (137) Willie Watson 2/36 (10 overs) |
* New Zealand won by 3 runs Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad, India Umpires: Mahboob Shah (Pakistan) and PW Vidanagamage (Sri Lanka) Player of the match: David Houghton (Zimbabwe)

## Australia vs Zimbabwe

* 13 October 1987 Scorecard
| Australia 235/9 (50 overs) | v | Zimbabwe 139 (49.4 overs) |
| Allan Border 67 (88) Kevin Curran 2/29 (8 overs) | | Kevin Curran 30 (38) Simon O'Donnell 4/39 (9.4 overs) |
* Australia won by 96 runs MA Chidambaram Stadium, Madras, India Umpires: Khizer Hayat(Pakistan) and David Shepherd (England) Player of the match: Steve Waugh (Australia)

## India vs New Zealand

* 14 October 1987 Scorecard
| India 252/7 (50 overs) | v | New Zealand 236/8 (50 overs) |
| Navjot Sidhu 75 (71) Dipak Patel 3/36 (10 overs) | | Ken Rutherford 75 (95) Maninder Singh 2/40 (10 overs) |
* India won by 16 runs M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, India Umpires: David Archer (West Indies) and Dickie Bird (England) Player of the match: Kapil Dev (India)

## Zimbabwe vs India

* 17 October 1987 Scorecard
| Zimbabwe 135 (44.2 overs) | v | India 136/2 (27.5 overs) |
| Andrew Pycroft 61 (102) Manoj Prabhakar 4/19 (8 overs) | | Dilip Vengsarkar 46* (37) John Traicos 2/27 (8 overs) |
* India won by 8 wickets Wankhede Stadium, Bombay, India Umpires: Mahboob Shah (Pakistan) and David Shepherd (England) Player of the match: Manoj Prabhakar (India)

## Australia vs New Zealand

* 18 October 1987 Scorecard
| Australia 199/4 (30 overs) | v | New Zealand 196/9 (30 overs) |
| David Boon 87 (96) Martin Snedden 2/36 (6 overs) | | Martin Crowe 58 (48) Steve Waugh 2/36 (6 overs) |
* Australia won by 3 runs Nehru Stadium, Indore, India Umpires: David Archer (West Indies) and Khizer Hayat (Pakistan) Player of the match: David Boon (Australia)
* No play on 18 October due to rain. Reserve day on 19 October used, further rain reduced match to 30 overs per side.

## India vs Australia

* 22 October 1987 Scorecard
| India 289/6 (50 overs) | v | Australia 233 (49 overs) |
| Dilip Vengsarkar 63 (60) Craig McDermott 3/61 (10 overs) | | David Boon 62 (59) Mohammad Azharuddin 3/19 (3.5 overs) |
* India won by 56 runs Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi, India Umpires: Khalid Aziz (Pakistan) and David Shepherd (England) Player of the match: Mohammad Azharuddin (India)
* Andrew Zesers (Aus) made his ODI debut.

## Zimbabwe vs New Zealand

* 23 October 1987 Scorecard
| Zimbabwe 227/5 (50 overs) | v | New Zealand 228/6 (47.4 overs) |
| Andrew Pycroft 52 (46) Stephen Boock 2/43 (10 overs) | | Jeff Crowe 88 (105) Ali Shah 2/34 (10 overs) |
* New Zealand won by 4 wickets Eden Gardens, Kolkata, India Umpires: Khizer Hayat (Pakistan) and PW Vidanagamage (Sri Lanka) Player of the match: Jeff Crowe(New Zealand)

## Zimbabwe vs India

* 26 October 1987 Scorecard
| Zimbabwe 191/7 (50 overs) | v | India 194/3 (42 overs) |
| Kevin Arnott 60 (126) Chetan Sharma 2/41 (10 overs) | | Navjot Sidhu 55 (61) Peter Rawson 2/46 (8 overs) |
* India won by 7 wickets Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad, India Umpires: David Archer (West Indies) and Dickie Bird (England) Player of the match: Kapil Dev (India)

## Australia vs New Zealand

* 27 October 1987 Scorecard
| Australia 251/8 (50 overs) | v | New Zealand 234 (48.4 overs) |
| Geoff Marsh 126 (149) Willie Watson 2/46 (8 overs) | | John Wright 61 (82) Allan Border 2/27 (7 overs) |
* Australia won by 17 runs Sector 16 Stadium, Chandigarh, India Umpires: Khizer Hayat (Pakistan) and David Shepherd (England) Player of the match: Geoff Marsh (Australia)

## Australia vs Zimbabwe

* 30 October 1987 Scorecard
| Australia 266/5 (50 overs) | v | Zimbabwe 196/6 (50 overs) |
| David Boon 93 (101) John Traicos 2/45 (10 overs) | | Andrew Pycroft 38 (46) Tim May 2/30 (10 overs) |
* Australia won by 70 runs Barabati Stadium, Cuttack, India Umpires: Mahboob Shah (Pakistan) and PW Vidanagamage (Sri Lanka) Player of the match: David Boon (Australia)

## New Zealand vs India

* 31 October 1987 Scorecard
| New Zealand 221/9 (50 overs) | v | India 224/1 (32.1 overs) |
| Dipak Patel 40 (51) Chetan Sharma 3/51 (10 overs) | | Sunil Gavaskar 103* (88) Willie Watson 1/50 (10 overs) |
* India won by 9 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur, India Umpires: Dickie Bird (England) and David Shepherd (England) Player of the match: Sunil Gavaskar and Chetan Sharma (Both India)
* Chetan Sharma (Ind) became the first bowler to take a Hat-Trick in a World Cup Match and he also became the first bowler for India to take a hat-trick in an ODI when he clean bowled Ken Rutherford, Ian Smith and Ewen Chatfield of New Zealand off consecutive balls.