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The final of the 1992 ICC Cricket World Cup was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 25 March 1992. [1] The match was won by Pakistan, under the captaincy of Imran Khan, as they defeated England by 22 runs to lift their first ever World Cup trophy.
Derek Pringle took two early wickets for England before Imran Khan and Javed Miandad added 139 for the third wicket to steady the Pakistan innings – although both were very slow to score early on, and Imran benefited from a dropped catch just as he was trying to increase the tempo, having up to that point scored only 9 in 16 overs. He went on ...
Although Gooch, Gower, and Lewis all made half-centuries, none went on to make a really big score, and England looked in trouble at various points of in innings being 42/2, 200/5 and 256/7, before Salisbury and the debuting Tim Munton added 64 for the ninth wicket. Pakistan's pace trio of Wasim, Waqar and Aaqib Javed did the bulk of the bowling.
Pakistan were set a revised target of 302 runs from 40 overs due to rain. Virat Kohli (Ind) became the ninth batsman (and fastest in terms of innings) to score 11,000 runs in ODIs (222). India's score was the highest team total against Pakistan in a World Cup match. Hasan Ali conceded 84 runs, the most by a Pakistani bowler in a World Cup match.
New Zealand were defeated only twice in the tournament, both times by Pakistan, in their final group match and in the semi-final. Pakistan had been lucky to be in the semi-finals at all: following only one victory in their first five matches, they were also fortunate to scrape a point from the washed-out match against England which appeared to ...
Player Team Score Balls 4s 6s Opponent Ground Rameez Raja Pakistan 119* 155: 16: 0 New Zealand AMI Stadium, Christchurch, New Zealand: Andy Flower Zimbabwe 115* 152: 8: 1 Sri Lanka Pukekura Park, New Plymouth, New Zealand
They have also won the 1998–99 Asian Test Championship, [7] defeating Sri Lanka in the final by an innings and 175 runs. [8] [9] Pakistan played their first ODI match against New Zealand in February 1973 at the Lancaster Park, Christchurch, [10] but registered their first win against England at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, in August 1974. [11]
Played with the wounds of England’s World Cup Final loss to Pakistan still fresh there was a lot of bad blood in the series. It was the end of an era with it and the final Test series for stalwarts such as Ian Botham, David Gower and Derek Pringle. Lamb’s final Test was at Lord’s, a match England narrowly lost by 2 wickets. [41]