The Aces in Azure are just one match away from doing what Kapil's Devils did 20 years ago: bring home the Cup. Sunday's final against Australia is all that separate the boys from the sepia-tinted men who have been there, done that.

1983 was a long time ago. One-day cricket was still played in creams; the matches lasted 60 overs; the field restrictions in the first 15 overs were unknown, as were reverse sweeps and relay throws; pinch-hitters only played baseball; there were no TV umpires or match referees; Duckworth and Lewis were still to alter rain rules.

Still....

Still, Kapil and his men managed to sock it to a mighty West Indian side in what was only the 223rd one-day international in history. If Ganguly's men do manage to come up trumps in ODI # 1993, it will be odd numerical justice: after 1,770 ODIs, India will get the chance of wearing cricket's showpiece crown again.

Will they? Won't they? Those are questions that will obviously be answered on March 23. But what is it that Team 1983 had that enabled them to humble a side that comprised Greenidge, Haynes, Richards, Lloyd, Gomes, Bacchus, Dujon---and Roberts, Garner, Holding and Marshall---with just 183 on the board?

And, more to the point, does Team 2003 have that in them to repeat the feat?

You decide.

Rediff.com gives you a chance to rank each member of Sourav's side based on their career and tournament performances.

Admittedly, it is a bit of a one-sided contest in terms of experience: Kapil's XI had together played 288 ODIs before the Prudential Cup finals; Sourav's XII (not counting Ajit Agarkar, Sanjay Bangar and Parthiv Patel) have played 1,617; Sachin alone 313.

As a result, the runs scored and wickets taken are severely skewed. The current 12 (including Anil Kumble) has a grand total of 35,030 career runs as against 5,164 runs scored by Kapil's men going into the 1983 finals. And as against 1,125 wickets, the superstars of yore had 167 wickets on the morning of 25-6-83.

So what? Remember, it was the 1983 victory that sowed the seeds of one-day cricket in the country and allowed the game to explode. Without that victory, would Indian cricket have been where it is today?

So, compare the past and the present.

Take a look at the statistics of each 1983 star going into the finals, and the tournament stats of each 2003 star going into the finals. And then click below to rank each member of the 2003 squad on a scale of 10 on their performance in this World Cup to tell the world if you think Sourav's men stand a chance.

1983: Kapil's Devils

Batting	M	I	No	Runs	Hs	Avg
Gavaskar	5	5	--	57	25	10.40
Srikkanth	7	7	--	118	39	16.86
Amarnath	7	7	--	211	80	30.14
Yashpal Sharma	7	7	1	229	89	38.17
S. Patil	7	7	1	189	51*	31.50
Kapil Dev	7	7	3	288	175*	72.00
K Azad	2	1	--	15	15	15.00
R Binny	7	5	--	71	27	14.20
Madan Lal	7	5	3	85	27	42.50
Kirmani	7	5	1	47	24*	11.75
B Sandhu	7	3	1	17	7	8.50

Bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Avg
Amarnath	42	2	166	5	33.20
Patil	9	0	61	0	--
Kapil Dev	73	9	224	11	20.36
K. Azad	14	1	35	1	35.00
Binny	78	8	313	17	18.41
Madan Lal	71	6	254	14	18.14
Sandhu	74	9	265	6	41.17

Bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Avg
Srinath	81.1	4	282	16	17.60
Zaheer Khan	81.2	5	307	18	17.10
Nehra	59.1	6	232	15	15.50
Harbhajan Singh	77.2	5	286	9	31.80
Mongia	25.1	1	96	5	19.20
Kumble	27	1	107	5	21.40
Yuvraj Singh	12.3	2	58	5	11.60
Ganguly	20	1	88	3	29.33
Sehwag	19	1	74	2	37.00
Tendulkar	15	0	57	2	28.50

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