That was the first time that New Zealand had such an authoritative run at the World Cup and they beat almost everybody that came on their way, thanks to some brilliant captaincy from strategy master, the late Martin Crowe. Gavin Larsen, one of the members of the NZ squad in the 1992 edition, revealed years later how it was like for the team when it started putting up such an incredible performance. The former captain who was known for his wicket-to-wicket miserly military medium wrote in a piece in ESPNcricinfo, things were not as smooth before the tournament began. New Zealand had a poor series against England at home and the terms between the board, selectors and captain Crowe were far from smooth. However, things changed once New Zealand trounced defending champions and co-hosts Australia by 37 runs at Eden Park, Napier. “When we beat Australia there was a release of emotion. Like, “Wow, are we on to something special here?”,” Larsen wrote in his piece. Crowe’s own batting form aided NZ’s cause (he ended up as the highest scorer of the tournament and bagged the man of the series award) and the co-hosts went on to win seven games…