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Indian team for the second edition of the ODI World Cup in 1979 once again went under Srinivas Venkataraghavan's captaincy and ended their campaign without tasting any success this time. India's batting unit failed very badly in this tournament as they never even managed to reach a total of 200 runs in any of the games they played against three other teams in their group.
India in the 1979 Men's ODI World Cup:
Played - 3
Won - 0
Lost - 3
India team results in Men's 1979 ODI World Cup:
Lost to West Indies by 9 wickets in Birmingham
Lost to New Zealand by 8 wickets in Leeds
Lost to Sri Lanka by 47 runs in Manchester
Points table (Group-B) of the 1979 Men's ODI World Cup:
P W L NR Pts
1. West Indies 3 2 0 1 10
2. New Zealand 3 2 1 0 8
3. Sri Lanka 3 1 1 1 6
4. India 3 0 3 0 0
India ended in the last position in their group points table without winning a match in that ODI WC tournament and once again they failed to qualify for the next stage (semi-finals) of the tournament.
India's squad for the 1979 ODI WC:
- Srinivas Venkataraghavan(C)
- Sunil Gavaskar(VC)
- Mohinder Amarnath
- Bishan Singh Bedi
- Anshuman Gaekwad
- Karsan Ghavri
- Kapil Dev
- Surinder Khanna(Wk)
- Brijesh Patel
- Dilip Vengsarkar
- Gundappa Vishwanath
- Bharath Reddy
- Yajuvindra Singh
- Yashpal Sharma
Most runs for India in 1979 ODI WC:
Gundappa Viswanath - 106 (3 inns)
Sunil Gavaskar - 89 (3 inns)
Brijesh Patel - 63 (3 inns)
Most wickets for India in 1979 ODI WC:
Mohinder Amarnath - 4 (3 inns)
Kapil Dev - 2 (3 inns)
