List of 10 Best knocks in ICC Cricket World Cups

List of 10 Best knocks in ICC Cricket World Cups: ICC World Cup is an event where performances from teams and player’s become immortal and get etched in every fan’s memory. When a batsman plays a knock that is important in the context of the game, wins his team the match or is significant in the outcome of the match, such innings are part of the greatest knocks in the World Cup and feature in highlights. The innings don’t have to be a century or fifty, just an important innings in context of the game, that affected the outcome of the match.

Here are 10 such innings that were important to the outcome of the game and are considered as the best knocks in World Cup history.

(PS: The innings are in no particular order. Each inning was as important as others which are not listed.)

175* – Kapil Dev v Zimbabwe 1983

Perhaps one of the most important knocks in history of the World Cup. India met Zimbabwe in an important game in aspect of India’s qualification in the semi-finals. India batted first and Zimbabwe used the morning swing to demolish India’s top order leaving them trailing at 17/5.

Captain Kapil Dev then played one the best innings not only in World Cups, but among the best in ODI cricket history. The skipper and Roger Binny who made 22 added 60 runs together before being dismissed. Madan Lal gave some support to Kapil making 17, but the biggest support came from wicket keeper Syed Kirmani. Kirmani made 24 from 56 balls, while Kapil Dev went berserk on the Zimbabwe’s bowlers. When the dust settled, Kapil was not out on 175* off 138 balls which included 16 fours and 6 huge sixes. It was India’s first ODI and World Cup century and highest ODI score at that time. India dismissed Zimbabwe for 235 runs with Madan Lal taking 3/42, with Kapil also taking 1/32.

This knock took India to the semi-finals where they defeated England and eventually to the finals, in which as we all know, they created history.