Thankfully Gavaskar showed a little more purpose, and outscored Engineer! In the third and final match, Abid Ali scored a face saving 70 to set a target of 231 for New Compressor bearing Company Zealand, which New Zealand reached with ease led by Glen Turner’s unbeaten 114.With the score at 203, Holder fell to Sarfaraz. No team from the sub-continent! England and the West Indies were the top teams of the two groups and were still unbeaten. Opening the innings, he scored 137. Imran Tahir the oldest player in this World Cup was not even born!
Times were so different. Pakistan then went on to clobber the badly bruised and battered Sri Lanka but could not go through to the semi-finals. He also scored 2 centuries and by remaining not out twice in the 4 innings he played he also recorded the highest batting average of the tournament – 166.e. 64 still to get. It was also one of the rare occasions when India went with 5 ‘fast bowlers’ — Abid Ali, Madan Lal, Karsan Ghavri, Eknath Solkar and Mohinder Amarnath — quite honestly all were trundlers, with Ghavri being the fastest.The four semi-finalists were the West Indies, Australia, England and New Zealand. West Indies the favourites were the champions and was the only undefeated team of the championship.