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The scene will never be forgotten when Imran Khan, as the winning captain, received a check for A 50,000 and a beautiful crystal trophy.

 Whenever the date of March 25 comes, the date of March 25, 1992 comes to mind when the Pakistan cricket team under the leadership of Imran Khan won the World Cup. Thus, today marks the 29th anniversary of winning the World Cup. Don't forget these memorable moments and reminisce. Nine teams took part in the fifth joint World Cup cricket tournament in Australia and New Zealand, including Pakistan, India, England, and West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and returning to cricket after 22 years. The South African team was included. This time more matches were played than the previous tournaments, the number was 39, 25 matches were played in Australia and 14 matches were played in New Zealand.

 

The 1992 World Cup was a unique and exciting World Cup from all previous World Cups, especially the colorful costumes, white ball and black side screens that captivated the fans. Puts the sands of matches in the light of electric bulbs The TV coverage of these matches was widely shown around the world. The final match had a record number of 87,182 spectators, which is a record. The match was televised live in 29 countries. Most of the spectators used open-roofed vehicles to bring the participating players to the stadium, on which the spectators threw paper missiles, shells, flowers and ribbons at the players.

The graph of Pakistan's performance in this World Cup kept going up and down but the players did not give up and kept on working hard. Then there were the astute captains like Imran Khan who kept their spirits up. There were a couple of occasions when The Pakistani team was about to be knocked out of the World Cup but excellent leadership, excellent defensive play of the players and then the prayers of the Pakistani fans did such a thing that in the holy month of Ramadan Pakistan cricket team defeated New Zealand in the semi finals Decker won the honor of playing in the final which was played against England in the final The final match of the World Cup was played day and night in Melbourne on March 25, 1992. Mushtaq Ahmed, Rameez Raja, while Graham Gooch, Ian Botham, Alec Stuart, Graeme Hook, Neil Fairbrother, Alan Lamb, Chris Lewis, Dermot Rio, Derek Pringle from England.

Philip Defratts and Richard Alngorth were playing. Imran Khan won the toss and elected to bat first in this crucial match and sent Aamir Sohail and Rameez Raja to the opening match. He got some encouragement but by the 9th over both Rameez Raja and Aamir had returned to the pavilion. In the 22nd over, Imran Khan and Javed Miandad put on a 51-run stand off 11 balls.

In the 39th over, Javed Miandad's temper deteriorated and Aamir Sohail was called up as the runner-up. In the 44th over, Imran Khan had scored 72 runs off 110 balls Inzamam-ul-Haq and Wasim Akram were scoring 200 runs off each ball. Inzamam-ul-Haq scored 42 runs while Wasim Akram also scored 33 runs off 18 balls. Pakistan scored 249 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs.

When Pakistan started fielding, the MCG field was bathed in light. The heat was at 31 degrees. Wasim Akram disturbed England by dismissing Botham at zero in the third over. Alec Stewart He could make only 7 runs. Gooch and Hook took the score to 59 but Goach also returned to the pavilion thanks to Aqib's brilliant catch at 69. On the other hand, Neil Fair Brothers and Alan Lamb slowly started to increase the score and their partnership for Pakistan. The danger was growing Imran Khan called Wasim Akram for the second spell and this decision proved to be timely when Wasim Akram walked Lamb and Chris Lewis on both the balls above and below which proved to be the turning point of the match.

England was beginning to see signs of defeat. They lost 6 wickets for 141 runs. Neil Fair Brothers completed their half century, and then Aqib Javed caught them by Moin Khan for 62 runs. Pringle Defratus and Alngorth tried their best but the goddess of victory was angry with them. In the 50th over, Imran Khan caught Rameng Raja at mid-off at the hands of Rameez Raja. It was England's last wicket to fall and there was still a gap of 22 runs. World Cup 92 made its name The final match on March 25, 1992 was watched by 87182 people when all the Pakistani players prostrated and thanked Wasim Akram and Man of the Match and then that scene can never be forgotten when Imran Khan became the winning captain. Received a check for fifty thousand Australian dollars and a beautiful trophy of crystal and thus whenever the date of 25th March comes, it is reminiscent of 25th March, 1992.

Long live Pakistan. Long live the Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan.