1978 Women's Cricket World Cup#India vs England
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{{Infobox cricket tournament
| name = 1978 Women's Cricket World Cup
| fromdate = 1
| todate = 13 January 1978
| administrator = International Women's Cricket Council
| cricket format = Women's One Day International (50-over)
| tournament format = Round-robin
| host = India
| champions = {{crw|Australia}}
| count = 1
| runner up = {{crw|England}}
| participants = 4
| matches = 6
| player of the series =
| most runs = {{criconw|AUS}} Margaret Jennings (127)
| most wickets = {{criconw|AUS}} Sharyn Hill (7)
| website =
| previous_year = 1973
| previous_tournament = 1973 Women's Cricket World Cup
| next_year = 1982
| next_tournament = 1982 Women's Cricket World Cup
}}
The 1978 Women's Cricket World Cup was an international cricket tournament played in India from 1 to 13 January 1978. Hosted by India for the first time, it was the second edition of the Women's Cricket World Cup, after the inaugural 1973 World Cup in England.
It was originally proposed that South Africa host the World Cup, but this was abandoned to conform with the Apartheid-era sporting boycott of the country. The Women's Cricket Association of India (WCAI) then made a successful bid, and served as the primary organiser, with the International Women's Cricket Council (IWCC) providing only limited oversight.{{cite book |last=Velija|first=Philippa|date=2015|title=Women's Cricket and Global Processes: The Emergence and Development of Women's Cricket as a Global Game|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DJMMCgAAQBAJ|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|page=99|isbn=9781137323538}} Along with India, which was making its debut, five other teams were originally invited – Australia, England, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the West Indies. The Netherlands and the West Indies, which had both not previously participated, were forced to withdraw due to financial issues.Abhishek Mukherjee (15 January 2014). [http://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/australia-women-lift-1978-world-cup-the-tournament-which-was-almost-calld-off-85737 "Australia Women lift 1978 World Cup — the tournament which was almost called off"] – CricketCountry. Retrieved 30 August 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/149452.html |title=Quick, quick Snow |work=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=16 January 2019}} The four teams that did compete (the lowest number in the tournament's history) played a round-robin tournament of three matches each, with Australia going undefeated to claim its first title. Australia's captain, Margaret Jennings, led the tournament in runs, while her teammate, Sharyn Hill, led the tournament in wickets. Three of the five highest scorers as well as three of the five leading wicket-takers in the tournament were from Australia. Sharon Tredrea featured in both lists, being the second-highest wicket-taker and fourth-highest scorer of the tournament.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/1/Womens_World_Cup_1977-78/Batting_by_Runs.html Women's World Cup 1977/78 (ordered by runs)] – CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 August 2015.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/1/Womens_World_Cup_1977-78/Bowling_by_Wickets.html Women's World Cup 1977/78 (ordered by wickets)] – CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
Squads
Information is only available for players who played at least one match at the tournament.
Venues
{{Location map+|India|width=400|float=center
|caption=Four venues hosted matches at the 1978 Women's World Cup:
- Eden Gardens, Calcutta – one match
- Keenan Stadium, Jamshedpur – one match
- Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad – two matches
- Moin-ul-Haq Stadium, Patna – two matches
|places=
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{{Location map~|India|lat_deg=25|lat_min=36|lon_deg=85|lon_min=10|position=right|background=|label=Patna|label_size=80}}
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Warm-up matches
At least five warm-up matches were played against various local Indian teams, all but one of which came before the tournament.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/1/Womens_World_Cup_1977-78.html Women's World Cup 1977/78] – CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
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|title = Warm-up matches
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{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 28 December 1977
| time =
| team1 = {{crw-rt|ENG}}
| score1 =
| score2 =
| team2 = {{flagicon|IND}} East Zone
| result = Result unknown
| report =
| venue = Eden Gardens, Calcutta, West Bengal
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| toss =
| notes =
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{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 28 December 1977
| time =
| team1 = {{crw-rt|NZL}}
| team2 = {{flagicon|IND}} West Bengal WCA President's XI
| score1 =
| score2 =
| result = Result unknown
| report =
| venue = Calcutta Cricket and Football Club, Calcutta, West Bengal
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{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 28 December 1977
| time =
| team1 = {{crw-rt|AUS}}
| team2 = {{flagicon|IND}} Indian Universities Women's Team
| score1 =
| score2 =
| result = Result unknown
| report =
| venue = Pune, Maharashtra (exact venue unknown)
| motm =
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| notes =
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{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 30 December 1977
| time =
| team1 = {{crw-rt|ENG}}
| team2 = {{flagicon|IND}} West Bengal WCA President's XI
| score1 =
| score2 =
| result = Result unknown
| report =
| venue = Calcutta Cricket and Football Club, Calcutta, West Bengal
| motm =
| toss =
| notes =
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{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 2 January 1978
| time =
| team1 = {{crw-rt|ENG}}
| team2 = {{flagicon|IND}} East Zone
| score1 =
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| result = Result unknown
| report =
| venue = Eden Gardens, Calcutta, West Bengal
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Group stage
=Points table=
{{#invoke:Sports table|main|style=CricketRR
|update=complete
|source=[https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/women-s-world-cup-1977-78-61181/points-table-standings ESPNcricinfo][https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/Tables/1/Womens_World_Cup_1977-78.html CricketArchive]
|nrr_header=RR
|team_order=AUS, ENG, NZL, IND
|result1=Q |col_Q=#cfc
|name_AUS={{crw|AUS}} |win_AUS=3 |loss_AUS=0 |rs_AUS=427 |or_AUS=130.5 |ob_AUS=1
|name_ENG={{crw|ENG}} |win_ENG=2 |loss_ENG=1 |rs_ENG=321 |or_ENG=120.5 |ob_ENG=1
|name_IND={{crw|IND}} |win_IND=0 |loss_IND=3 |rs_IND=272 |or_IND=136.5 |ob_IND=1
|name_NZL={{crw|NZL}} |win_NZL=1 |loss_NZL=2 |rs_NZL=399 |or_NZL=143.4 |ob_NZL=1
}}
- Note: run rate was to be used as a tiebreaker in the case of teams finishing on an equal number of points, rather than net run rate (as is now common).[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/Tables/0/Shell_Bicentennial_Womens_World_Cup_1988-89.html Shell Bicentennial Women's World Cup 1988/89 table] – CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
Matches
=New Zealand vs Australia=
{{Single-innings cricket match
| date = 1 January
| time =
| team1 = {{crw-rt|AUS}}
| score1 = 177 (49.2 overs)
| runs1 = Wendy Hills 64
| wickets1 = Barb Bevege 3/17 (9.2 overs)
| team2 = {{crw|NZL}}
| score2 = 111/8 (50 overs)
| runs2 = Trish McKelvey 37
| wickets2 = Sharyn Hill 3/16 (10 overs)
| result = Australia won by 66 runs
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/66901.html Scorecard]
| venue = Keenan Stadium, Jamshedpur, Bihar (now Jharkhand)
| umpires = KVK Rao (IND) and Sukha Bose (IND)
| toss = Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
| notes = Peta Verco, Sharyn Hill (Aus), Cheryl Henshilwood, Edna Ryan, Pat Carrick, Sheree Harris, Vicki Burtt and Viv Sexton (NZ) all made their WODI debuts.
}}
=India vs England=
{{Single-innings cricket match
| date = 1 January
| time =
| team1 = {{crw-rt|IND}}
| score1 = 63 (39.3 overs)
| runs1 = Diana Edulji 18
| wickets1 = Margaret Wilks 2/6 (6 overs)
| team2 = {{crw|ENG}}
| score2 = 65/1 (30.2 overs)
| runs2 = Lynne Thomas 43*
| wickets2 = Diana Edulji 1/18 (10 overs)
| result = England won by 9 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/66904.html Scorecard]
| venue = Eden Gardens, Calcutta, West Bengal
| umpires = Bhairab Ganguly (IND) and Sunit Ghosh (IND)
| toss = England won the toss and elected to bowl.
| notes = Anjali Sharma, Diana Edulji, Fowzieh Khalili, Gargi Banerjee, Kalpan Paropkari, Lopamudra Bhattacharji, Nilima Jogalekar, Runa Basu, Sandhya Mazumdar, Sharmila Chakraborty, Shobha Pandit (Ind) and Catherine Mowat (Eng) all made their WODI debuts.
}}
=New Zealand vs India=
{{Single-innings cricket match
| date = 5 January
| time =
| team1 = {{crw-rt|IND}}
| score1 = 130/9 (50 overs)
| runs1 = Ujwala Nikam 31*
| wickets1 = Linda Lindsay 2/26 (10 overs)
Pat Carrick 2/26 (9 overs)
| team2 = {{crw|NZL}}
| score2 = 131/1 (44 overs)
| runs2 = Barb Bevege 67*
| wickets2 = Anjali Sharma 1/32 (10 overs)
| result = New Zealand won by 9 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/66907.html Scorecard]
| venue = Moin-ul-Haq Stadium, Patna, Bihar
| motm =
| toss = India won the toss and elected to bat.
| notes = Shubhangi Kulkarni, Sudha Shah, Susan Itticheria, Ujwala Nikam (Ind) and Linda Lindsay (NZ) all made their WODI debuts.
}}
=India vs Australia=
{{Single-innings cricket match
| date = 8 January
| time =
| team1 = {{crw-rt|AUS}}
| score1 = 150/8 (50 overs)
| runs1 = Sharon Tredrea 56
| wickets1 = Lopamudra Bhattacharji 2/23 (10 overs)
| team2 = {{crw|IND}}
| score2 = 79 (47.2 overs)
| runs2 = Shobha Pandit 17
| wickets2 = Peta Verco 3/9 (9 overs)
| result = Australia won by 71 runs
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/66908.html Scorecard]
| venue = Moin-ul-Haq Stadium, Patna, Bihar
| umpires = KVK Rao (IND) and Sukha Bose (IND)
| toss = India won the toss and elected to bowl.
| notes = Rajeshwari Dholakia (Ind) made her WODI debut.
}}
=New Zealand vs England=
{{Single-innings cricket match
| date = 8 January
| time =
| team1 = {{crw-rt|NZL}}
| score1 = 157 (49.4 overs)
| runs1 = Barb Bevege 57
| wickets1 = Jacqueline Court 4/29 (10 overs)
| team2 = {{crw|ENG}}
| score2 = 160/3 (40.3 overs)
| runs2 = Lynne Thomas 47
| wickets2 = Sue Rattray 2/33 (6 overs)
| result = England won by 7 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/66912.html Scorecard]
| venue = Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (now Telangana)
| motm =
| toss = England won the toss and elected to bowl.
| notes = Karen Hadlee (NZ) made her WODI debut.
}}
=England vs Australia=
Both Australia and England went into the last match of the tournament undefeated, which meant it functioned as a de facto final, akin to the Uruguay v Brazil match at the 1950 Football World Cup. England's Megan Lear later recounted that the "most memorable part of [the] tournament was playing in front of crowds of 40,000 plus".(5 March 2009). [http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/393264.html "'Our laundry laid out to dry on the rocks'"] – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
{{Single-innings cricket match
| date = 13 January
| time =
| team1 = {{crw-rt|ENG}}
| score1 = 96/8 (50 overs)
| runs1 = Shirley Hodges 26
| wickets1 = Sharon Tredrea 4/25 (10 overs)
| team2 = {{crw|AUS}}
| score2 = 100/2 (31.3 overs)
| runs2 = Margaret Jennings 57*
| wickets2 = Glynis Hullah 2/9 (6 overs)
| result = Australia won by 8 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/66913.html Scorecard]
| venue = Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (now Telangana)
| umpires = SA Swaminathan (IND) and V. K. Ramaswamy (IND)
| toss = Australia won the toss and elected to bowl.
}}
Statistics
=Most runs=
The top five runscorers are included in this table, ranked by runs scored and then by batting average.
| class="wikitable" | |||||||
| Player | Team | Runs | Inns | Avg | Highest | 100s | 50s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret Jennings | {{crw|AUS}} | 127 | 3 | 63.50 | 57* | 0 | 1 |
| Barbara Bevege | {{crw|NZ}} | 126 | 3 | 63.00 | 67* | 0 | 2 |
| Lynne Thomas | {{crw|ENG}} | 109 | 3 | 54.50 | 47 | 0 | 0 |
| Sharon Tredrea | {{crw|AUS}} | 87 | 2 | 43.50 | 56 | 0 | 1 |
| Wendy Hills | {{crw|AUS}} | 66 | 3 | 22.00 | 64 | 0 | 1 |
Source: [https://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/batting/most_runs_career.html?id=922;type=tournament ESPNcricinfo] [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/1/Womens_World_Cup_1977-78/Batting_by_Runs.html CricketArchive]
=Most wickets=
The top five wicket takers are listed in this table, ranked by wickets taken and then by bowling average.
| class="wikitable sortable" | |||||||
| Player | Team | Overs | Wkts | Ave | SR | Econ | BBI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sharyn Hill | {{crw|AUS}} | 30.0 | 7 | 7.57 | 25.71 | 1.76 | 3/16 |
| Sharon Tredrea | {{crw|AUS}} | 25.0 | 6 | 7.00 | 25.00 | 1.68 | 4/25 |
| Pat Carrick | {{crw|NZ}} | 29.0 | 6 | 17.66 | 29.00 | 3.65 | 3/43 |
| Glynis Hullah | {{crw|ENG}} | 21.1 | 5 | 6.80 | 25.40 | 1.60 | 2/2 |
| Peta Verco | {{crw|AUS}} | 23.0 | 5 | 7.40 | 27.60 | 1.60 | 3/9 |
Source: [https://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/bowling/most_wickets_career.html?id=922;type=tournament ESPNcricinfo]
References
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{{Women's Cricket World Cup}}
{{International women's cricket tours of India}}
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