Hi juys, today I will tell you about the final of first world cup between West Indies and Australia. And in my feature posts I will tell you about the all world cup finals.  The first ODI world cup was played in 1975. In this world cup, Australia beat England in the semi final first by 4 wickets and West Indies beat New Zealand by five wickets and makes the place in the first big final of world cup

     The final of first world cup was played on 21 June in 1975 in the field of lords in London. In this match Australia win the toss and elected to Field first. West Indies openers RC Fredericks and CG Greenidge comes into the crease.  West lost their two wickets quickly in the score of 27-2. First wicket falls in the shape of RC Fredericks at the score of 12 who scores just  7 runs and  and the second wicket falls at the score of 27 in the shape of Kallicharran who just scores 12 runs. Then again West Indies lost one more wicket at the score of 50 runs in the shape of CG Greenidge who scores 13 runs. Now West Indies looking for a big partnership . Thn the captain CH Lloyd comes into the crease. He and RB Kanhai makes the match winning partnership of 149 runs and pushes her team to the score of 199 runs. In which captain makes a brilliant century and RB Kanhai makes half century.

 

Now the pressure comes into the Australian side.Austrila were looking for a wicket. Then Gilmour comes into attack and gives the big breake through, in the shape of captain CH Lloyd who scores 102 runs in 85 balls with 12 fours and 2 sixes( he became the first batasman to score a century in the world cup final). Now the score of team West Indies was 199-4. West Indies lost two more wickets quickly at the score of 206(RB Kanhai who scores 55 runs) and 209( Richards scores just 5 runs) both the wickes were taken by Gilmour.now the KD Boyce and BD Julien comes into crease and makes the partnership of 52 runs and pushes the west Indies to the score of 261. The Thomson comes into the attack and takes the wicket of Boyce who scores 34 runs with 3 fours. Then at the score of 285 runs Gilmour takes another wicket of DL Murray  who scores 14 runs in 10 balls with 1 four and one six. At the end of ist innings west Indies scores 291-8. In the bowling side of Australia GJ Gilmour take big five wickets in big game, JR Thomson takes 2 wickets and DK Lillee take one wicket.

 After the break, Australia openers(RB McCosker and Turner) comes into the crease to change the score of 292 runs. At the score of 25 Australia lost their first wicket of McCosker who scores just 7 runs. At the score of 81 due to dad connection between batasmans Turner gets run out who was playing well, he scores 40 runs with 4 fours. Again at the score of 115 and 162 Australia lost two more wickets due to fab connection between batasmans and gets run out. At the score of 115 GS Chappell gets run out who scores 15 runs and At the score of 162 captain IM Chappell gets run out who plays a brilliant inning of 62 with 6 fours . Now the score of team Australia was 162-4. At the score of 170 Australia lost their 5th big wicket of Walters who scores 35 runs. Boyce takes the wicket of Marsh at the score of 195 who scores just 11 . Now Australia needs 97 runs but they have lost their six wickets.R Edwards and GJ Gilmour makes a small partnership of 26 runs. Then Boyce comes into the attack and takes the wickets of both the played , Gilmour who scores 14 runs at the score of 221runs and Edwards who scores 28 runs at the score of 231 runs. After scoring two runs Australia lost one more wicket of Walker due to bad connection again who scores 7 runs. 

Now Australia has only 1 wicket in their hand and need 59 runs. In crease last two bowlers were playing they plays and in expected partnership of 41 runs but at the score of 174 again due to wrong call they lost their last wicket as we as the big final by 17 runs .in the bowling side of West Indies KD Boyce takes four wickets, CH Lloyd takes one wicket and the remaining five wickets gets run out. Run outs was the man cause to Australia to lost the match.

    Weat Indies became the first champions who win the first ODI world cup.

    The captain Clive Lloyd was given man of the match for his brilliant century in world cups.

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