- ODI no. 1226 | 1997 season
- Played at Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo
- 24 August 1997 (50-over match)
| Sri Lanka innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | c Jadeja b Kuruvilla | 3 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 60.00 | |
| MS Atapattu | c Azharuddin b Kuruvilla | 3 | 30 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| RS Mahanama | b Kulkarni | 50 | 85 | 61 | 5 | 0 | 81.96 | |
| PA de Silva | c Azharuddin b Kulkarni | 104 | 168 | 117 | 7 | 0 | 88.88 | |
| A Ranatunga* | b Kulkarni | 3 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| SKL de Silva† | c Tendulkar b Kuruvilla | 50 | 59 | 58 | 3 | 0 | 86.20 | |
| UDU Chandana | b Chauhan | 16 | 21 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 84.21 | |
| DK Liyanage | c Jadeja b Tendulkar | 20 | 17 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 111.11 | |
| HDPK Dharmasena | run out (Kuruvilla) | 1 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| M Muralitharan | c Tendulkar b Kuruvilla | 7 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 175.00 | |
| KSC de Silva | not out | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 1, w 1, nb 5) | 7 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 49.4 overs) | 264 | (5.31 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| BKV Prasad | 6 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 5.16 | (2nb) | ||
| A Kuruvilla | 8.4 | 1 | 43 | 4 | 4.96 | (2nb) | ||
| NM Kulkarni | 10 | 0 | 73 | 3 | 7.30 | (1w) | ||
| RK Chauhan | 10 | 0 | 43 | 1 | 4.30 | |||
| RR Singh | 7 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 4.57 | (2nb) | ||
| SR Tendulkar | 5 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 4.40 | |||
| SC Ganguly | 3 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 6.33 |
| India innings (target: 265 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| SR Tendulkar* | c †SKL de Silva b KSC de Silva | 39 | 41 | 32 | 3 | 2 | 121.87 | |
| SC Ganguly | c & b KSC de Silva | 17 | 61 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 73.91 | |
| RR Singh | c sub (RS Kalpage) b Muralitharan | 28 | 54 | 41 | 3 | 1 | 68.29 | |
| R Dravid | c Chandana b Jayasuriya | 42 | 87 | 68 | 4 | 0 | 61.76 | |
| M Azharuddin | run out (Atapattu/†SKL de Silva) | 65 | 100 | 68 | 4 | 0 | 95.58 | |
| A Jadeja | run out (PA de Silva) | 22 | 39 | 32 | 2 | 0 | 68.75 | |
| NR Mongia† | not out | 14 | 36 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 73.68 | |
| RK Chauhan | c Liyanage b Chandana | 4 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 44.44 | |
| A Kuruvilla | c & b Jayasuriya | 7 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 175.00 | |
| NM Kulkarni | not out | 3 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 60.00 | |
| Extras | (b 9, lb 1, w 2, nb 2) | 14 | ||||||
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| Total | (8 wickets; 50 overs) | 255 | (5.10 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat BKV Prasad |
| Fall of wickets1-50 (Tendulkar), 2-78 (Ganguly), 3-107 (Singh), 4-165 (Dravid), 5-221 (Jadeja), 6-227 (Azharuddin), 7-235 (Chauhan), 8-245 (Kuruvilla) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| KSC de Silva | 8 | 0 | 48 | 2 | 6.00 | (1nb, 2w) | ||
| DK Liyanage | 5 | 1 | 36 | 0 | 7.20 | |||
| HDPK Dharmasena | 9 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 3.66 | |||
| M Muralitharan | 10 | 0 | 41 | 1 | 4.10 | (1w) | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | 10 | 0 | 56 | 2 | 5.60 | (1w) | ||
| UDU Chandana | 8 | 0 | 31 | 1 | 3.87 |
| Match details |
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Toss India, who chose to field Series Sri Lanka won the 3-match series 3-0 |
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Player of the match
PA de Silva (Sri Lanka) Player of the series ST Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) |
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Umpires
KT Francis and TM Samarasinghe TV umpire PT Manuel Match referee JR Reid (New Zealand) |
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