5 great captains who never won a World Cup

#4 Martin Crowe

Crowe introduced a couple of revolutionary moves during the 1992 World Cup

While the 1992 World Cup is mostly remembered for the refreshingly admirable story of Imran Khan's 'cornered tigers', the tournament was the forerunner of the modern-day ODI game. Apart from coloured clothing as well as floodlit matches with the white-ball, the role of opening batsmen changed drastically.

Unlike in the previous editions when openers remained content with blunting the new-ball, New Zealand promoted Mark Greatbach to the top of the order for one precise reason. Symbolically, captain Martin Crowe declared, "Let there be sixes". The prototype pinch-hitter was thus born. Crowe also triggered another revolution by opening the bowling with a spinner.

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The Kiwis, widely considered to be one of the favourites for the title, were going strong until they were confronted with the challenge of toppling a resurgent Pakistani outfit in the semi-finals. Riding on their skipper's belligerent 91, New Zealand amassed 262. However, an exuberant Inzamam-ul-Haq played the innings of his life to dash Crowe's hopes of taking the co-hosts to the summit clash.