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Indian team being the defending champions of the ODI World Cup got the right to host this big event on their home soil and once again under Kapil Dev's leadership, they performed better by putting a consistent performance in the group stage of the event but unfortunately lost the semi-final game to England and weren't able to retain the trophy.
India in the 1987 Men's ODI World Cup:
Played - 7
Won - 5
Lost - 2
India team results in Men's 1987 World Cup:
Lost to Australia by 1 run in Chennai
Beat New Zealand by 16 runs in Bengaluru
Beat Zimbabwe by 8 wickets in Mumbai-WS
Beat Australia by 56 runs in Delhi
Beat Zimbabwe by 7 wickets in Ahmedabad
Beat New Zealand by 9 wickets in Nagpur
Lost to England by 35 runs in Mumbai-WS (Semi-Finals)
Points table (Group-A) of the 1987 Men's ODI World Cup:
Teams | Played | Won | Lost | Points |
India | 6 | 5 | 1 | 20 |
Australia | 6 | 5 | 1 | 20 |
New Zealand | 6 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
Zimbabwe | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
India's net run rate was 1.126 while the Australian team's net run rate was 0.467 only hence India were ahead of the Aussies in the table.
India's squad for the 1987 ODI WC:
Kapil Dev (C), Dilip Vengsarkar (VC), Sunil Gavaskar, Kris Srikkanth, Ravi Shastri, Roger Binny, Mohammad Azharuddin, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Maninder Singh, Kiran More (Wk), Chandrakant Pandit, Manoj Prabhakar, Chetan Sharma, Laxman Sivaramakrishnan
Most runs for India in 1987 ODI WC:
Sunil Gavaskar - 300 (7 inns)
Navjot Singh Sidhu - 276 (5 inns)
Kris Srikkanth - 248 (7 inns)
Most wickets for India in 1987 ODI WC:
Maninder Singh - 14 (7 inns)
Manoj Prabhakar - 9 (7 inns)
Ravi Shastri - 7 (7 inns)
