since advancing to full test status and the creation of more and more international cricket tournaments, india has slowly become involved in a number of cricketing tournament's including the cricket world cup, icc champions trophy and asia cup. india's first two cricket world cups were largely failures, and the team failed to progress beyond the first round. but india upset the west indies in the final of the 1983 cricket world cup to claim the prudential cricket world cup for the first time, captained by kapil dev. india and the west indies had cruised through the preliminary rounds in group b, while england and pakistan emerged the victors from group a. most considered india to be the underdogs in the group stages, and their win against west indies was categorized as similar to zimbabwe's win over australia in the same world cup. they were, in fact, quoted as having odds of 66 to 1 before the beginning of the tournament.