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Great moment arrives When India beat the West Indies in the 1983 World Cup final. An extract from P R Man Singh's book Victory Insight.   System Requirement Windows Media Player needed 'Surprise is the best weapon' Balwinder Singh Sandhu relives the delivery that bowled Gordon Greenidge. 'All teams turned to all-rounders after India's win' Roger Binny underlines the emergence of all-rounders. Did the 1983 World Cup start the all-rounders trend in one-day cricket? Yes No Maybe Can't Say    Previous Polls On to the semis 'Playing Kirti Azad as an off-spinner against left-handers worked wonders,' writes P R Man Singh in 'Victory Insight'. 'The team was much more Indian' Noted statistician Ramchandra Guha speaks about the World Cup triumph and what it meant to Indian cricket. The Haryana Hurricane A photo essay on India's greatest allrounder. More features >> Krish Srikkanth was the top scorer of the 1983 World Cup final match with a typical 38 runs containing seven boundaries and a six. First Leg: First Round The Test and County Cricket Board -- which then ran the World Cup -- changed the format in 1983. Second Leg: First Round The return leg games began on June 15. India took on the West Indies at the Kennington Oval. Semi-final: India versus England England -- which had won five of six league games by enormous margins -- was, quite simply, blind-sided. Design: Imran Shaikh  |   Your feedback Copyright © 2003 rediff.com India Limited. All Rights Reserved.