Shastri played at No. 10 against West Indies, then at three down against Zimbabwe and opened against Australia in India’s first three games of the tournament.

Joel Garner and Andy Roberts (who also scored 37*) shared a tenth wicket partnership of 71 runs.

Duncan Fletcher is the present coach of the Indian cricket team

Kepler Wessels played 24 Tests and 54 ODIs for Australia before going on to represent South Africa, the country of his birth

MacLeay’s 6 for 39 was the second best bowling figures in the 1983 World Cup behind Winston Davis’s 7 for 37

Kapil Dev’s 5 for 43, also the first five-wicket haul by an Indian in ODIs, came against Australia in the league match at Trent Bridge

It was Vengsarkar’s only game in the 1983 World Cup; he scored 32 off 59 balls

Prior to Kapil’s century, Krishnamachari Srikkanth’s 95 against Sri Lanka at Delhi in 1982 was the highest score in ODIs by an Indian

West Indies finished with 20 points with five wins and one loss, while India finished second with four wins and two losses

Salve, after being snubbed, vowed to host the World Cup away from England, which had never happened till then

Richards’s mistimed hook was caught by Kapil Dev running backwards

Srikkanth’s highest score of 38 came in the final of the tournament against West Indies

Kapil Dev took seven catches in eight matches, including that of Viv Richards and Clive Lloyd in the final

Amarnath score 46 and took 2 for 27 against England in the semifinal and 26 and 3 for 12 in the final against West Indies

Sunil Valson

Valson, a left-arm medium-pacer, was in the squad but didn’t play a single game in the competition; in fact, he never played an ODI for India