Cricket World Cup History: Reliving the previous World Cup encounters between India and New Zealand

World Cup 1992: New Zealand beat India by 4 wickets

India vs NZ, 1992 CWC

New Zealand, the hosts of the World Cup won the toss in this game and invited India to bat first. Kris Srikkanth's dismissal early did not hurt the Indians as skipper Azharuddin and Sachin Tendulkar came into their element.

Tendulkar scored 84 runs in 107 balls with 6 boundaries and was well supported by the skipper Azharuddin's 98-ball 55 as India put up 230/6 from 50 overs. Chris Harris was the top performer for the Kiwis with his 3/55 from nine overs.

Chasing a relatively low total, Mark Greatbatch and Andrew Jones notched up important fifties as barring Manoj Prabhakar and Sunil Raju, none of the other bowlers could make an impact.

Greatbatch was awarded with the 'man of the match' award for his 73 as New Zealand recorded a comfortable four-wicket win.

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World Cup 1999: New Zealand beat India by five wickets

NZ chased down 253

The sixth encounter between these two teams was at Trent Bridge in 1999. New Zealand won the toss and elected to bowl first.

All of the top five Indian batsmen got off to decent starts but threw their wickets away just as they were moving towards a big score. Barring Ajay Jadeja's 103-ball 76, skipper Azharuddin's 30 was the second-highest score as India ended with 251-6 from 50 overs.

Mohanty and Srinath gave India a good start in the second innings as New Zealand were reduced to 90-3 from 21.5 overs. However, Roger Twose and Matt Horne counter-attacked with their fifties.

Horne was the top scorer with his 116-ball 74 but in the end, it was the 77-ball unbeaten 60 from Twose that got New Zealand across the line.