ICC World Cup - 14th match, Group A
Sri Lanka won by 4 wickets (with 24 balls remaining)
- ODI no. 1456 | 1999 season
- Played at County Ground, New Road, Worcester (neutral venue)
- 22 May 1999 (50-over match)
| Zimbabwe innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| NC Johnson | c Wickramasinghe b Upashantha | 8 | 36 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 47.05 | |
| GW Flower | c †Kaluwitharana b Wickramasinghe | 42 | 100 | 69 | 6 | 0 | 60.86 | |
| PA Strang | b Wickramasinghe | 5 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 62.50 | |
| MW Goodwin | run out (Jayasuriya/Muralitharan) | 21 | 39 | 29 | 2 | 0 | 72.41 | |
| A Flower† | c †Kaluwitharana b Jayasuriya | 41 | 80 | 60 | 3 | 0 | 68.33 | |
| ADR Campbell* | c †Kaluwitharana b Wickramasinghe | 6 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 75.00 | |
| GJ Whittall | c Ranatunga b Muralitharan | 4 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 36.36 | |
| SV Carlisle | run out (Vaas/Jayasuriya) | 27 | 52 | 36 | 1 | 1 | 75.00 | |
| HH Streak | c Atapattu b Muralitharan | 10 | 23 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 43.47 | |
| EA Brandes | not out | 19 | 35 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 65.51 | |
| HK Olonga | not out | 5 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 3, w 6) | 9 | ||||||
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| Total | (9 wickets; 50 overs) | 197 | (3.94 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| WPUJC Vaas | 10 | 1 | 47 | 0 | 4.70 | (1w) | ||
| KEA Upashantha | 10 | 1 | 43 | 1 | 4.30 | (4w) | ||
| GP Wickramasinghe | 10 | 1 | 30 | 3 | 3.00 | |||
| DPMD Jayawardene | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8.00 | |||
| M Muralitharan | 10 | 2 | 29 | 2 | 2.90 | (1w) | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | 7 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 4.00 | |||
| PA de Silva | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 4.50 |
| Sri Lanka innings (target: 198 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | c Goodwin b Johnson | 6 | 22 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 35.29 | |
| RS Mahanama | b Whittall | 31 | 84 | 64 | 3 | 0 | 48.43 | |
| MS Atapattu | c Campbell b Streak | 54 | 141 | 90 | 4 | 0 | 60.00 | |
| PA de Silva | c sub (AR Whittall) b Whittall | 6 | 25 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 40.00 | |
| A Ranatunga* | c & b Whittall | 3 | 18 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| DPMD Jayawardene | lbw b Streak | 31 | 40 | 36 | 4 | 0 | 86.11 | |
| RS Kaluwitharana† | not out | 18 | 43 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 60.00 | |
| WPUJC Vaas | not out | 17 | 32 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 6, w 21, nb 5) | 32 | ||||||
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| Total | (6 wickets; 46 overs) | 198 | (4.30 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat KEA Upashantha, GP Wickramasinghe, M Muralitharan |
| Fall of wickets1-13 (Jayasuriya, 5.4 ov), 2-75 (Mahanama, 19.1 ov), 3-93 (de Silva, 25.2 ov), 4-108 (Ranatunga, 29.2 ov), 5-150 (Atapattu, 36.3 ov), 6-157 (Jayawardene, 38.5 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| EA Brandes | 8 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 3.50 | (2w) | ||
| NC Johnson | 7 | 1 | 29 | 1 | 4.14 | (5w) | ||
| HH Streak | 8 | 1 | 30 | 2 | 3.75 | (6w) | ||
| GJ Whittall | 10 | 1 | 35 | 3 | 3.50 | (1nb, 2w) | ||
| HK Olonga | 9 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 5.55 | (4nb, 3w) | ||
| GW Flower | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 5.00 | |||
| PA Strang | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 5.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to field Points Sri Lanka 2, Zimbabwe 0 |
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Player of the match
MS Atapattu (Sri Lanka) |
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Umpires
SA Bucknor (West Indies) and DR Shepherd TV umpire MJ Kitchen Match referee Talat Ali (Pakistan) |
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