1987 ICC World Cup Final Match Scorecard

             ICC World Cup 1987 Final Match Scorecard and Details 

The fourth ICC world cup is hosted by the India and Pakistan and Eden Garden is chosen as the world cup final match venue. ICC World Cup 1987 is played between the Australia VS England at the Kolkata Stadium on the 8 November. Both the teams are playing its second final match of the ICC world cup, Australia reached into 1975 final first time and England reached 1979 final.  But they both lost the match against West-Indies. 

Australia won the toss and chooses to bat first. They scored a good defendable target of 253 runs for 5 wickets. David Boon played an inning of 75 runs on 125 balls and Mike Veletta played a not-out inning of 45 runs on 31 balls. England needs 254 runs in 50 over with a run rate of 5.06 runs per over. But, England team failed to achieve this target and the whole team will be all-out on just 253 runs in 50 over by losing 8 wickets. 

n the England batting side, three players score 40+ runs Athey, Gatting and Lamb. But other batsmen are failed to maintain run rate, result is England lost the match by 7 runs only.

ICC World Cup 1987

Australia VS England ICC World Cup 1987 Final match

Australia Innings

Batsman		Runs	Balls	Fours	Sixes
David Boon	c Downton B Hemmings	75	125	7	0
Geoff Marsh	b Foster	24	49	3	0
Dean Jones	c Athey b Hemmings	33	57	1	1
Craig McDermott	b Gooch	14	8		0
Allan Border	run out Robinson	31	31	6	0
Mike Veletta	not out	45	31	6	0
Steve Waugh	not out	5	4	0	0
Extra runs: 26 (b 1, lb 13, w 5, nb 7)
Total: 253 runs on 5 wickets in 50 over
Fall of wickets: 1-75(Marsh), 2-151 (Jones), 3-166 (McDermott), 4-168(Boon), 5-241(Border)

England Bowling

Bowling	Over	Maiden	Run	Wickets
Phil Defreitas	6	1	34	0
Gladstone Small	6	0	33	0
Neil Foster	10	0	38	1
Eddie Hemmings	10	1	48	2
John Emburey	10	0	44	0
Graham Gooch	8	1	42	1

  

England Batting

Batsman		Runs	Balls	Fours	Sixes
Graham Gooch	Lbw b O’Donnell	35	57	4	0
Tim Robinson	lbw b McDermott	0	1	0	0
Bill Athey	Run out (Waugh/Reid)	58	103	2	0
Mike Gatting	c Dyer b Border	41	45	3	1
Allan Lamb	b Waugh	45	55	4	0
Paul Downton	c O’Donnell b Border	9	8	1	0
John Emburey	Run out (Boon/ McDermott)	10	16	0	0
Phil DeFreitas	c Reid b Waugh	17	10	2	1
Neil Foster	Not out	7	6	0	0
Gladstone Small	Not out	3	3	0	0
Extras runs: 21 (b 1, lb 14, w 2, nb 4)
Total: 246 runs on 8 wickets in 50 overs
Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Robinson), 2-66 (Gooch), 3-135 (Gatting), 4-170 (Athey), 5-188 (Downton), 6-218 (Emburey), 7-220 (Lamb), 8-235 (DeFreitas)

Australia bowling

Bowling	Over	Maiden	Runs	Wickets
Craig McDermott	10	1	51	1
Bruce Reid	10	0	43	0
Steve Waugh	9	0	37	2
Simon O’Donnell	10	1	35	1
Tim May	4	0	27	0
Allan Border	7	0	38	2

• Winner: Australia won the 1987-88 World Cup by 7 runs
• Player of the match: David Boon (Australia)
• Umpires: Ram Gupta and Mahboob Shah (Pakistan)