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The Indian team was part of the men's ODI World Cup in all 12 different editions from 1975 to 2019. Indian team in the inaugural ODI World Cup edition didn't make any impact as they lost their opening match to England very badly without showing any fight and also lost a must-win match to New Zealand by a margin of 4 wickets.
India in the 1975 Men's World Cup:
Played - 3
Won - 1
Lost - 2
India team results in the 1975 Men's World Cup:
Lost to England by 202 runs in Lord's
Beat East Africa by 10 wickets in Leeds
Lost to New Zealand by 4 wickets in Manchester
1975 ODI World Cup (Group-A) Points Table:
P W L Pts
1. England 3 3 0 12
2. New Zealand 3 2 1 8
3. India 3 1 2 4
4. East Africa 3 0 3 0
India ended in third position out of four teams (ENG, NZ, IND & EA) hence they failed to qualify for the semi-finals of the 1975 ODI World Cup.
India's 1975 ODI World Cup Squad:
- Srinivas Venkataraghavan(C)
- Bishen Singh Bedi(VC)
- Sunil Gavaskar
- Syed Abid Ali
- Mohinder Amarnath
- Farokh Engineer(Wk)
- Anshuman Gaekwad
- Karsan Ghavri
- Madan Lal
- Brijesh Patel
- Eknath Solkar
- Gundappa Vishwanath
- Syed Kirmani(Wk)
- Parthasarathy Sharma
Most runs for India in 1975 WC:
Sunil Gavaskar - 113 (3 inns)
Farokh Engineer - 78 (2 inns)
Syed Abid Ali - 70 (1 inn)
Most wickets for India in 1975 WC:
Syed Abid Ali - 6 (3 inns)
Madan Lal - 5 (3 inns)
Mohinder Amarnath - 4 (3 inns)
