Top 14 bowling figures in India vs West Indies WC games

Posted on Mar 6 2015 - 12:50pm by IBC News

Defending champions India will take on former champions West Indies in their fourth World Cup tie at the WACA ground in Perth on March 6. It will be a crucial clash as both teams will look to win it to finish among the top two positions in Pool B to avoid either of the two hosts, Australia and New Zealand, in the quarter finals.

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India and the West Indies have met seven times in the 40-year history of the World Cup with India winning four of them.

Here is the list of the top 14 bowling figures in India versus West Indies matches at the World Cup. The list features nine Indians and five Caribbeans. West Indies’ Ravi Rampaul is the only bowler to have taken a five-wicket haul in a WC match against India although his team lost the match.

Ravi Rampaul has the best bowling figure of 5/51 for WI against India in WC.

Ravi Rampaul (WI) 5 for 51 in 10 overs at Chennai in 2011 [India won]

Anderson Cummins (WI) 4 for 33 in 10 overs at Wellington in 1992 [WI won]

Michael Holding (WI) 4 for 33 in 12 overs at Edgbaston in 1979 [WI won]

Mahinder Amarnath (India) 3 for 12 in 7 overs at the Lord’s in 1983 [India won]

Ravi Shastri (India) 3 for 26 in 5.1

overs at Old Trafford in 1983 [India won]

Zaheer Khan (India) 3 for 26 in 6 overs at Chennai in 2011 [India won]

Madan Lal (India) 3 for 31 in 12 overs at the Lord’s in 1983 [India won]

Srinivas Venkataraghavan (India) 3 for 30 in 12 overs at Edgbaston in 1979 [WI won]

Andy Roberts (WI) 3 for 32 in 10 overs at the Lord’s in 1983 [India won]

Anil Kumble (India) 3 for 35 in 10 overs at Gwalior in 1996 [India won]

Manoj Prabhakar (India) 3 for 39 in 10 overs at Gwalior in 1996 [India won]

Michael Holding (WI) 3 for 40 in 9.1 overs at Kennington Oval in 1983 [WI won]

Roger Binny (India) 3 for 48 in 12 overs at Old Trafford in 1983 [India won]

Roger Binny (India) 3 for 71 in 12 overs at Kennington Oval in 1983 [WI won]