Numbers Don't Lie: India's 1983 World Cup Win Was a True Team Effort
12 August 20261 min read
Kapil Dev's 1983 World Cup numbers -- 304 runs and 12 wickets -- are rightly remembered as central to India's win. But the full scorecard tells a fuller story.
Yashpal Sharma contributed 240 runs and Mohinder Amarnath added 237. With the ball, Roger Binny finished as the tournament's leading wicket-taker with 18, and Madan Lal wasn't far behind with 17, the second-most in the competition.
Those numbers are a direct answer to any suggestion that India's 1983 win came down to a fluke or a single player carrying the team. It was, in the fullest sense, a team effort.