India was grouped along with Australia, New Zealand and Zimbabwe. By this time, the matches were reduced to a 50 over format. India looked in great from throughout the league stages, winning 5 of the six matches - the only match they lost was by a margin of 1 run against Australia. Chasing 270, they were cruising at 2-207 but the batting just collapsed after the dismissal of Sidhu for 73.
Navjot Sidhu was India`s star with the bat scoring consistently throughout. This was India`s first match but the rest of the matches were not too difficult for India. India made it to the semi-finals easily and looked well on course to reclaim the title when England put an end to their hopes and those of millions of India`s fans. England scored 254 batting first. But India`s batting failed for once. The in-form Navjot Sidhu and Sunil Gavaskar fell early and despite a 64 from Mohammed Azharuddin, India fell well short by 35 runs.
