Today, India and New Zealand will compete in the World Cup for the 8th time in Nottingham’s Trent Bridge. Earlier, in the history of the World Cup, India and New Zealand teams feced each other a total of 7 times.
Where New Zealand has won 4 times, Team India has won 3 matches. In the World Cup, both the teams were last seen in 2003 in 16 years ago, in which India won by 7 wickets.
1975 World Cup:
New Zealand won by four wickets in 1975 World Cup Glenn Turner scored 114 not out for the Kiwi’s while Abid Ali also hit 2-35 wickets with 70 runs.
1979 World Cup:
New Zealand won by 8 wickets in 1979 On behalf of the team, Bruce Edgar made 84 not out.
1987 World Cup:
In the first match in 1987, India won by 16 runs, Captain Kapil Dev got 72 runs in 58 balls, for which he got Man of the Match.
In the second match of 1987, India won by 9 wickets. Sunil Gavaskar scored an unbeaten 103 and Chetan Sharma took 3-51 which was his first hat-trick.
1992 World Cup:
New Zealand won by four wickets in 1992. New Zealand’s opener Mark Greatbatch scored 73 runs in 77 balls, while Sachin Tendulkar scored 84 runs from India.
1999 World Cup:
In 1999, New Zealand won by 5 wickets in Nottingham. New Zealand’s Roger-Toughe scored an unbeaten 60 in the match and became the Man of the Match.
2003 World Cup:
In 2003, India had defeated New Zealand by 7 wickets, in this match, Zaheer Khan was given the Man of the Match for the 4-42 an spectacular bowling from the Indian.
2019 will be the 8th time both the teams will face each other in Nottingham’s Trent Bridge, we expect to see few changes in both the sides.