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1992 World Cup Cricket
The 1992 World Cup of cricket was the first such tournament co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand – and the only one so far. Australia was the defending champions and favorites to clinch the title, while South Africa was playing in their first ever world cup, after returning back to international cricket only a year earlier after 22 years of wilderness due to the apartheid policies.
For the first time ever, there were nine teams participating in the tournament – up until then it had been eight – and all teams were to play all the remaining teams in a round-robin format.
The tournament began with the upset of Australia at the hands of their co-hosts New Zealand. The Aussies then lost to new-comers South Africa rather easily.
Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka barely looked in contention throughout the tournament, though they were involved with each other in the first ever successful run-chase of over 300 runs in a game.
India lost to England and Australia rather narrowly – by a solitary run to the Aussies – but as the games progressed the controversial rain-rule began to rear its head up on more occasions than one.
For instance, in the India-Australia game, the Aussies had scored 237 in their fifty overs, but rains reduced the game to 47 overs a side, thus reducing the number of overs India would face by three, but lessening the target by two runs only!
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