International Cricket
There have been three One Day International played at Grace Road, though none have involved England.
In the 1983 Cricket World Cup eventual winners India beat Zimbabwe, chasing a target of 156 to win by 5 wickets. The second and third games were both in the 1999 World Cup. In the second Zimbabwe beat India by three runs and in the third the West Indies thrashed Scotland by 8 wickets.
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Famous quotes containing the word cricket:
“All cries are thin and terse;
The field has droned the summer’s final mass;
A cricket like a dwindled hearse
Crawls from the dry grass.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)