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Series badge Won toss. Elected to batPAK
249-6
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Overs: 49.2 RR: 4.60 vs spin: 4.50
vs seam: 4.50
Overs: 50.0 RR: 4.98 vs spin: 5.00
vs seam: 4.50
Wed 25/03/92 England v Pakistan, Benson and Hedges World Cup, Final, Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne
PAKISTAN WIN Pakistan won by 22 runs
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Pakistan - 1st Inns 249-6 (50.0; RR: 4.98)

BATTER   R B 4 6 SR
Aamer Sohail c Stewart b Pringle 4 19 0 0 21.05
Rameez Raja lbw b Pringle 8 26 1 0 30.77
Imran Khan c Illingworth b Botham 72 110 5 1 65.45
Javed Miandad c Botham b Illingworth 58 98 4 0 59.18
Inzamam-ul-Haq b Pringle 42 35 4 0 120.00
Wasim Akram run out 33 19 4 0 173.68
Saleem Malik not out 0 1 0 0 0.00
Ijaz Ahmed  
Moin Khan  
Mushtaq Ahmed  
Aaqib Javed  
Extras (0b, 19lb, 6w, 7nb) 32  
TOTAL 249-6 (50.0 overs; RR: 4.98)

Fall of wickets

20-1 (Aamer Sohail 0.0 ov), 24-2 (Rameez Raja 0.0 ov), 163-3 (Javed Miandad 0.0 ov), 197-4 (Imran Khan 0.0 ov), 249-5 (Inzamam-ul-Haq 0.0 ov), 249-6 (Wasim Akram 0.0 ov)

BOWLERS O M R W Econ Wd NB
DR Pringle 10.0 2 22 3 2.20 3 5
CC Lewis 10.0 2 52 0 5.20 1 2
IT Botham 7.0 0 42 1 6.00 0 0
PAJ DeFreitas 10.0 1 42 0 4.20 1 0
RK Illingworth 10.0 0 50 1 5.00 0 0
DA Reeve 3.0 0 22 0 7.33 1 0

England - 1st Inns 227 (49.2; RR: 4.60)

BATTER   R B 4 6 SR
GA Gooch c Javed b Ahmed 29 66 1 0 43.94
IT Botham c Khan b Akram 0 6 0 0 0.00
AJ Stewart c Khan b Javed 7 16 1 0 43.75
GA Hick lbw b Ahmed 17 36 1 0 47.22
NH Fairbrother c Khan b Javed 62 70 3 0 88.57
AJ Lamb b Akram 31 41 2 0 75.61
CC Lewis b Akram 0 6 0 0 0.00
DA Reeve c Raja b Ahmed 15 32 0 0 46.88
DR Pringle not out 18 16 1 0 112.50
PAJ DeFreitas run out 10 8 0 0 125.00
RK Illingworth c Raja b Khan 14 11 2 0 127.27
Extras (0b, 5lb, 13w, 6nb) 24  
TOTAL 227 all out (49.2 overs; RR: 4.60)

Fall of wickets

6-1 (IT Botham 0.0 ov), 21-2 (AJ Stewart 0.0 ov), 59-3 (GA Hick 0.0 ov), 69-4 (GA Gooch 0.0 ov), 141-5 (AJ Lamb 0.0 ov), 141-6 (CC Lewis 0.0 ov), 180-7 (NH Fairbrother 0.0 ov), 183-8 (DA Reeve 0.0 ov), 208-9 (PAJ DeFreitas 0.0 ov), 227-10 (RK Illingworth 0.0 ov)

BOWLERS O M R W Econ Wd NB
Wasim Akram 10.0 0 49 3 4.90 6 4
Aaqib Javed 10.0 2 27 2 2.70 3 1
Mushtaq Ahmed 10.0 1 41 3 4.10 1 0
Ijaz Ahmed 3.0 0 13 0 4.33 2 0
Imran Khan 6.2 0 43 1 7.17 0 1
Aamer Sohail 10.0 0 49 0 4.90 1 0

Match Info

Match

England v Pakistan at Melbourne, Benson and Hedges World Cup, Final

Date

Wednesday March 25, 1992

Toss

Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat

Time

4:30am UTC

Venue

Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne

Umpires

SA Bucknor, BL Aldridge

England Team

Playing XI

GA Gooch, IT Botham, AJ Lamb, DR Pringle, PAJ DeFreitas, NH Fairbrother, AJ Stewart, CC Lewis, GA Hick, RK Illingworth, DA Reeve

Pakistan Team

Playing XI

Imran Khan, Javed Miandad, Saleem Malik, Rameez Raja, Wasim Akram, Ijaz Ahmed, Aaqib Javed, Mushtaq Ahmed, Moin Khan, Aamer Sohail, Inzamam-ul-Haq