Martin Crowe is a greatest batsman from New Zealand and was identical for out of track leadership, left the world for ever on Thursday (March 3). Cricketing world paused listening such a painful news which can't be expressed. His death reminded people the era of 92 from where modern attacking cricket started. And he is the fore runner of modern time attacking cricket
1992 World Cup was Crowe's world cup ,modern cricket was introduced to Crowe in that world cup which was held in Australia and New Zealand and it was famous for coloured dresses, day-night matches, presence of talents like Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Jonty Rhodes, Inzamam-ul-Haq and many others. And Martin Crowe's outstanding cricketing brain.
Crowe was the highest scorer in that tornament with 456 runs and two of the biggest influences that Crowe's captaincy have on cricket till today were first appeared in the 1992 World Cup. The first was opening the bowling with a spinner. Crowe had given the ball to Kenya-born Dipak Patel in the opening match against favourite Australia .Patel gave only 36 runs off his 10 overs and took the wicket of Allan Border. The victory gave Crowe the confidence. He himself scored an unbeaten knock of 100 in the same match.
The other innovation that promoting the flambuoyant Mark Greatbatch to open the batting. The left-hander hit 68 off 60 ball against hot favorite South Africa came after 21 years of banning.The Greatbatch effect during the fielders'-restriction phase proved to be extremely effective for the Kiwis and none except Pakistan could stop them in that tournament.
A fall of wings before fly---23 years before McCullum took NZ to the finals Crowe had given his side such a momentum in that tournament that experts were compelled to replace Australia with New Zealand as the favourites to win the trophy in the middle of the tournament.
Early exits of Australia and West Indies and an ordinary-looking Pakistan till the semifinals made New Zealand a strong favourite but Inzamam-ul-Haq's 37-ball-60 shattered the Kiwis' dreams in the semifinal. An injured Crowe got run out at 93 as Greatbatch, who was running for him got dismissed, and could not take the field in the second half, a fact that his team rued as they lost, seeing an abrupt end to the fairy tale that Crowe had begun for them.
Crowe's feat remained the most cherished one in the history of New Zealand cricket till 2015 when Brendon McCullum led them to the final of the World Cup but lost to Australia.