In the first of six instalments running throughout the India-England series, we delve into the Almanack archive to pick out a memorable one-day match between the sides. In the first of our series, two alltime greats go head-to-head World Cup, Perth, 1992
England won by 9 runs

Botham v Tendulkar? It only happened once in international cricket, when England met India in the second match of the 1992 World Cup in Australasia. Botham was a stately 36-year-old of rapidly-increasing girth, Tendulkar a frizzy-haired youth exactly half his age. Botham wanted one final fling, while Tendulkar's love affair with cricket was still developing. Although he failed with the bat, Botham – typically – had the final say when he bowled to Tendulkar for the first and last time in an England shirt. The game itself was a thriller too: England squeezed home under the WACA lights to record the seventh win of their then-record sequence of 11 (interrupted only by a rain-affected no-result against Pakistan).

Almanack match report
Scorecard

Lawrence Booth is assistant editor of Wisden.com.

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