during the 1980s, other players like mohammed azharuddin, ravi shastri, laxman sivaramakrishnan, sanjay manjrekar, krish srikkanth and maninder singh emerged. india won the cricket world cup in 1983, defeating west indies in an exciting final. in 1985, india won the world championship of cricket in australia. the test series victory in 1986 in england remained, for nearly 19 years, the last test series win outside subcontinent. sunil gavaskar became the first batsman to accumulate 10,000 runs in test cricket, and went on to register a record 34 centuries, surpassed only recently by sachin tendulkar. kapil dev, a genuine all-rounder, became the highest wicket taker in test cricket, surpassing richard hadlee to take a total of 434 wickets, a record which has since been broken by courtney walsh, shane warne and muttiah muralitharan and has also been surpassed by fellow indian anil kumble.