1979 Cricket World Cup Group B
result
primaryTopic
1979 Cricket World Cup Group B
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date
1979-06-09
1979-06-13
1979-06-16
1979-06-18
motm
Rain
Reserve day used, original match date was washed out.
result
Match abandoned without a ball bowled
New Zealand won by 8 wickets
New Zealand won by 9 wickets
Sri Lanka won by 47 runs
West Indies won by 32 runs
West Indies won by 9 wickets
runs
Anura Tennekoon 59
Bruce Edgar 84*
Clive Lloyd 73*
Dilip Vengsarkar 36
Glenn Turner 83
Gordon Greenidge 106
Gundappa Viswanath 75
Richard Hadlee 42
Sunil Gavaskar 55
Sunil Wettimuny 67
score
umpires
David Evans and John Langridge
Dickie Bird and Barrie Meyer
Ken Palmer and Alan Whitehead
Lloyd Budd and Alan Whitehead
Lloyd Budd and Ken Palmer
venue
wickets
Ajit de Silva 1/39
Andy Roberts 3/43
Brian McKechnie 3/24
Brian McKechnie 3/25
Jeremy Coney 2/40
Kapil Dev 1/46
Michael Holding 4/33
Mohinder Amarnath 1/39
Mohinder Amarnath 3/40
Somachandra de Silva 3/29
label
1979 Cricket World Cup Group B
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