Editing 1975 Cricket World Cup (section)

===Summary===
The opening round of matches took place on 7 June with four matches being played. The match at Lord's saw England deliver the highest score by a team in the 60 over match with 334 runs being scored. [[Dennis Amiss]] top scored for the English with 137 from 147 balls helped by [[Keith Fletcher]] and [[Chris Old]] who each recorded a half-century. In response, [[Sunil Gavaskar]] batted through the entire [[innings]] for only 36 runs in which [[Gulabrai Ramchand]] thought that he was doing some batting practice.<ref>{{cite news|date=9 June 1975|title=England's Superb Effort Brings out Worst in India|first=Michael|last=Melford|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=Lord's|page=18}}</ref> Australia opened their campaign with a win against Pakistan at [[Headingley Stadium|Headingley]] with a 73-run victory. This was due to [[Dennis Lillee]]'s five-wicket haul which brought Pakistan's hope of a win crashing down as they collapsed from 181 for four to be all out for 205. Earlier, [[Ross Edwards (cricketer)|Ross Edwards]] top scored for Australia with 80 as he aided the Australians in getting 94 runs from the last 13 overs to bring Australia to 278 for seven from their 60 overs.<ref>{{cite news|date=9 June 1975|title=Australians prove their real power|first=Henry|last=Bevington|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=[[Headingley Stadium|Headingley]]|page=18}}</ref><ref>Browning (1999), p. 12</ref> The other two matches saw easy wins for the West Indies and [[New Zealand national cricket team|New Zealand]]. For [[Glenn Turner]], he occupied the crease during the whole New Zealand innings as he top scored with 171 as New Zealand won by 181 runs over East Africa. The West Indies took a nine-wicket victory over Sri Lanka who became the first team to score under 100 runs in a One Day International.<ref>Browning (1999), pp. 10–11</ref>

Despite missing two players due to operation – [[Asif Iqbal (Pakistani cricketer)|Asif Iqbal]] – and examinations – [[Imran Khan]] – Pakistan was not fazed by the missing players in the second round of games with the team scoring 266 for seven from their 60 overs with standing captain [[Majid Khan (cricketer)|Majid Khan]] top scoring for Pakistan with 60.<ref>Browning (1999), p. 17</ref> In response, the West Indies fell to 166 for eight which included a period of three wickets for only 10 runs as [[Bernard Julien]], [[Clive Lloyd]] and [[Keith Boyce]] all losing their wickets. But the last wicket pair of [[Deryck Murray]] and [[Andy Roberts (cricketer)|Andy Roberts]] stole the match away as the West Indies won by a wicket off the final over.<ref>{{cite news|date=12 June 1975|title=Last-Wicket Stand Snatches Victory from Pakistan|first=Tony|last=Lewis|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=[[Edgbaston Cricket Ground|Edgbaston]]|page=30}}</ref> The other match in Group B saw Australia claim their second victory, but it was not all smooth with the Australian captain [[Ian Chappell]] remarking in an interview that the English media was trying to unsettle Australia's plans due to the [[Jeff Thomson]] no-ball problem with Chappell saying: "I've seen this sort of thing before in England".<ref>{{cite news|date=12 June 1975|title=Captain's comment|work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=lL5f5cZgq8MC&dat=19750612&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|access-date=25 November 2019}}</ref> On the field, [[Alan Turner (cricketer)|Alan Turner]] scored a century as Australia ended with 328 with Sri Lanka falling 52 runs short as John Mason from ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' stated that they might not have many new admirers with their short ball stuff sending two Sri Lankan batsman to hospital.<ref>{{cite news|date=12 June 1975|title=Bruised Sri Lanka Just Fail|first=John|last=Mason|page=30|location=[[The Oval]]|work=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref><ref>Browning (1999), pp. 15–16</ref> Group A saw two convincing wins to England and India. At [[Trent Bridge]], Keith Fletcher top scored for England with 131 as he guided the English to their second victory and going to the lead of the group table with an 80-run win over New Zealand.<ref>{{cite news|date=12 June 1975|title=Brilliant Fletcher too much for New Zealand|first=Michael|last=Melford|page=30|location=[[Trent Bridge]]|work=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref> The other match in Group A saw 720 spectators observe India record a 10-wicket victory with [[Madan Lal]] taking three wickets for India in which East Africa fell only 120.<ref>Browning (1999), pp. 14–15</ref>

With the match sold out four days in advance,<ref>{{Cite news|date=10 June 1975|title=Australia & W. Indies Game Sold out|location=[[Surrey]]|work=The Daily Telegraph|page=26}}</ref> the West Indies took on Australia to see who would finish top of Group B. With the ball swinging in the air, the pair of [[Rod Marsh]] and Ross Edwards guided Australia to 192 with a 99-run partnership for the sixth wicket after Australia fell to 61/5. In response, the West Indies went on to take a seven-wicket victory with [[Alvin Kallicharran]] top scoring with 78, which included a period of 31 runs of nine Dennis Lillee deliveries as the West Indies finished top of Group B.<ref>{{cite news|date=16 June 1975|title=Lillee is Tamed and W. Indies Gain Famous Victory|first=Michael|last=Melford|page=22|location=The Oval|work=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref> Pakistan ended their tournament with a 192-run victory over Sri Lanka at Trent Bridge with half centuries to [[Zaheer Abbas]], Majid Khan and [[Sadiq Mohammad]].<ref>Browning (1999), p. 22</ref> In Group A, New Zealand sealed their spot in the semi-finals with a four-wicket victory over India off the back of a century from Glenn Turner as he hit twelve fours on his way to an unbeaten innings of 114.<ref>{{cite news|date=15 June 1975|title=Masterful Turner rides Ali punch|first=Mike|last=Stevenson|page=30|location=|work=[[The Sunday Telegraph]]}}</ref> The other match in Group A saw England clinch a 196-run victory over East Africa; England scored 290/5 from their 60 overs off the back of a 158-run opening partnership between Dennis Amiss and [[Barry Wood (cricketer)|Barry Wood]] before a bowling attack led by [[John Snow]] (taking 4 for 11 from his 12 overs) ran through the East Africans, who were bowled out for 94 in 52.3 overs. Only [[Ramesh Sethi]] offered much resistance, lasting for 32 overs to score 30.<ref>{{cite news|date=15 June 1975|title=Snow chills the Africans|first=Michael|last=Booth|page=24|location=Edgbaston|work=[[The Sunday Times]]}}</ref>