Cricket World Cup History: Reliving the past encounters between India and England

1983: India beat England by 6 wickets to enter the finals

India beat England by 6 wickets in the 1983 World Cup Semi-Finals

The first semi-final of the 1983 World Cup was between the hosts England and team India at Manchester.

Batting first, the hosts were bowled out for 213 runs in their 60 overs with Fowler being the top scorer with 33 runs. None of the batsmen could get going and the Indian bowlers took full advantage of the brittle English batting. Kapil Dev was the most successful Indian bowler and he picked up 3/35 runs from his 11 overs.

India chased down the target comfortably in 54.4 overs with half centuries from Yashpal Sharma and Sandip Patil. Sharma was the top scorer of the match with a 115-ball 61 as India comfortably beat the hosts by 6 wickets.

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1987: England beat India in the semi-final

England beat India in the semi finals of the 1987 World Cup

The tables turned in the 1987 World Cup semi finals when England beat the hosts and favourites India by a margin of 35 runs at Mumbai.

England scored an impressive 254 for 6 in their 50 overs with Graham Gooch scoring a magnificent 115. Mike Gatting scored an impressive half century that helped England to a competitive total.

India never really looked like they would chase 255 as they kept losing wickets at regular intervals. Hemmings picked up 4/52 and Foster picked up 3 wickets as India were bundled out for 219.

Mohammad Azharrudin was the top scorer for India with a 74-ball 64 run knock. However he did not get any support from the other batsmen and England triumphed in the end.

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1992: England edge India by 9 runs

England beat India by 9 runs in the 1992 World Cup

The second match of the 1992 World Cup between India and England went down to the wire with England keeping their nerves and winning the contest by a slender margin of 9 runs.

Chasing 237, India kept losing wickets at regular intervals but came close to the English target. India were bowled out for 227 in 49.2 overs with Ravi Shastri finishing as the top scorer with 57 runs.

Reeve was the pick of the England bowlers as he finished with figures of 3/38 runs in his 10 overs. Earlier, England scored 236 in their 50 overs with Robin Smith being the top scorer.

This was England's last win over India in a World Cup match. It has been 27 years since the victory and England are still looking to defeat India in a World Cup match.

Also see – India vs England head to head stats