Wills World Series

The 1994–95 Wills World Series (named after sponsor Wills of ITC Limited) was a One Day International (ODI) cricket tri-series where the India national cricket team played host to the West Indies national cricket team and New Zealand national cricket team. India and the West Indies reached the final at the Eden Gardens where close to 100,000 witnessed India beat the West Indies.^[1]

1994–95 Wills world series
Part of West Indian cricket team in India in 1994-95
Date	23 October–5 November 1994
Location	India
Result	India beat  West Indies in the final
Player of the series	Sachin Tendulkar (Ind)
Teams  India  New Zealand  West Indies Captains Mohammad Azharuddin Ken Rutherford Courtney Walsh Most runs Sachin Tendulkar (285) Adam Parore (159) Carl Hooper (222) Most wickets Sachin Tendulkar (8) Matthew Hart (8) Rajindra Dhanraj (6)
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India lost only once, controversially to the West Indies in the last group game. Manoj Prabhakar and Nayan Mongia were accused of not making an effort to win the match after stonewalling the run-chase. The Indian authorities suspended Prabhakar and Mongia and the match referee Raman Subba Row docked the team two points for not playing in the spirit of the game. India protested the decision to the ICC, who ruled that the Row had exceeded his authority.^[2]

Subba Row also suspended the West Indies vice-captain Brian Lara for one game, for arguing with the umpire, who he thought should've consulted the third umpire before giving him out stumped.^[3]

New Zealand did not win any of their four games, though they were unlucky to see the match washed out after dismissing the West Indies cheaply in the opening game.^[4]

Venues

Chennai	Kolkata	New Delhi	Margao	Vadodara	Kanpur	Guwahati
M. A. Chidambaram Stadium	Eden Gardens	Feroz Shah Kotla	Fatorda Stadium	Reliance Stadium	Green Park Stadium	Nehru Stadium

Squads

India	New Zealand	West Indies
Mohammad Azharuddin (c) Atul Bedade Rajesh Chauhan Ajay Jadeja Vinod Kambli Anil Kumble Nayan Mongia (wk) Manoj Prabhakar Venkatesh Prasad Venkatapathy Raju Chetan Sharma Navjot Singh Sidhu Javagal Srinath Sachin Tendulkar Vijay Yadav (wk)	Ken Rutherford (c) Richard de Groen Simon Doull Stephen Fleming Chris Harris Matthew Hart Blair Hartland Darrin Murray Dion Nash Adam Parore (wk) Chris Pringle Shane Thomson Bryan Young	Courtney Walsh (c) Jimmy Adams Keith Arthurton Kenny Benjamin Barrington Browne Sherwin Campbell Shivnarine Chanderpaul Cameron Cuffy Anderson Cummins Rajindra Dhanraj Roland Holder Carl Hooper Brian Lara Phil Simmons Stuart Williams

Points table

Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts
India	4	3	1	0	12
West Indies	4	2	1	1	10
New Zealand	4	0	3	1	2

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Pool matches

1st ODI

23 October 1994 Scorecard

West Indies  221 (49.2 overs)	v	India 225/6 (48.2 overs)
Brian Lara 74 (83) Sachin Tendulkar 3/36 (10 overs)		Mohammad Azharuddin 81 (84) Courtney Walsh 2/33 (10 overs)

India won by 4 wickets M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Umpires: K. S. Giridharan (Ind) and K. Parthasarathy (Ind) Player of the match: Mohammad Azharuddin (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to field.
• Sherwin Campbell (Win) made his ODI debut.
• Points: India 4, West Indies 0.

2nd ODI

26 October 1994 Scorecard

West Indies  123 (39.1 overs)	v	New Zealand 25/1 (9 overs)
Brian Lara 32 (38) Matthew Hart 5/22 (10 overs)		Bryan Young 13 (22) Courtney Walsh 1/17 (5 overs)

No result Fatorda Stadium, Margao Umpires: Borni Jamula (Ind) and Bala Murali (Ind)

• West Indies won the toss and elected to bat.
• Rajindra Dhanraj (Win) made his ODI debut.
• Points: New Zealand 2, West Indies 2.

3rd ODI

28 October 1994 Scorecard

New Zealand  269/4 (50 overs)	v	India 271/3 (48.1 overs)
Ken Rutherford 108 (102) Manoj Prabhakar 2/49 (10 overs)		Sachin Tendulkar 115 (136) Matthew Hart 2/56 (10 overs)

India won by 7 wickets IPCL Sports Complex Ground, Vadodara Umpires: Shyam Bansal (Ind) and Suresh Shastri (Ind) Player of the match: Sachin Tendulkar (Ind)

• New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.
• Points: India 4, New Zealand 0.

4th ODI

30 October 1994

West Indies  257/6 (50 overs)	v	India 211/5 (50 overs)
Keith Arthurton 72 (62) tendulkar 2/31 (8 overs)		manoj Prabhakar 102 (154) Anderson Cummins 1/39 (10 overs)

West Indies won by 46 runs Green Park Stadium, Kanpur Umpires: Jasbir Singh (India) and Chandra Sathe (India) Player of the match: Keith Arthurton (Win)

• India won the toss and elected to field.
• Points: West Indies 4, India 0.

5th ODI

1 November 1994

West Indies  306/6 (50 overs)	v	New Zealand 171/9 (50 overs)
Carl Hooper 111 (114) Dion Nash 3/48 (10 overs)		Chris Pringle 34 (22) Rajindra Dhanraj 4/26 (10 overs)

West Indies won by 135 runs Nehru Stadium, Guwahati, Guwahati Umpires: Subrata Banerjee (India) and M. R. Singh (India) Player of the match: Carl Hooper (Win)

• West Indies won the toss and elected to bat.
• Points: West Indies 4, New Zealand 0.

6th ODI

3 November 1994

India  289/3 (50 overs)	v	New Zealand 182 (45.4 overs)
Ajay Jadeja 90 (127) Matthew Hart 1/36 (9 overs)		Stephen Fleming 56 (48) Sachin Tendulkar 2/29 (10 overs)

India won by 107 runs Feroz Shah Kotla, New Delhi, India Umpires: Tej Handu (India) and Raman Sharma (India) Player of the match: Sachin Tendulkar (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.
• Points: India 4, New Zealand 0.

Final

7th ODI

5 November 1994 (D/N) Scorecard

India  274/6 (50 overs)	v	West Indies 202 (44 overs)
Sachin Tendulkar 66 (68) Rajindra Dhanraj 2/55 (10 overs)		Keith Arthurton 42 (59) Venkatapathy Raju 4/58 (10 overs)

India won by 72 runs Eden Gardens, Kolkata, India Umpires: V. K. Ramaswamy (Ind) and S. Venkataraghavan (Ind) Player of the match: Sachin Tendulkar (Ind)

• West Indies won the toss and elected to field.
• Javagal Srinath (Ind) picked his 100th wicket in ODIs.^[5]
• India won the 1994-95 Wills World Series.