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on this day

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1983
A devastating double in the fourth ODI in Jamshedpur, where Gordon Greenidge hammered 115 from 134 balls, with ten fours and five sixes, but was outblasted by Viv Richards, who smashed 20 fours and three sixes as he cruised to a majestic 149 from only 99 balls. They piled on 221 in 26 overs. Unsurprisingly West Indies' 333 for 8 proved far too many for India (229 for 5), although Sunil Gavaskar did make 83.

1997
A national record at the National Stadium. Aamer Sohail (160) and Ijaz Ahmed (151) clubbed a handy West Indian attack (Walsh, Dillon, Rose, Bishop, Hooper) all round Karachi. They put on 298, a Pakistan record for the first wicket, and set up a ten-wicket victory, helped by nine wickets from Saqlain Mushtaq and seven from Wasim Akram.

1992
The first official ODI in South Africa. Hansie Cronje took 5 for 32 with his medium-paced wobblers as India were bowled out for 184 in Cape Town. South Africa overhauled that with three balls to spare after a laboured 43 in 100 balls from Kepler Wessels, who was the first man to be given out by the video umpire in an ODI.