- ODI no. 1218 | 1997 season
- Played at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
- 18 July 1997 (50-over match)
| India innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| SR Tendulkar* | b Vaas | 21 | 49 | 28 | 3 | 0 | 75.00 | |
| SC Ganguly | c Dharmasena b KSC de Silva | 11 | 38 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| SS Karim† | c †SKL de Silva b Dharmasena | 12 | 46 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 48.00 | |
| R Dravid | b Jayasuriya | 69 | 123 | 102 | 6 | 0 | 67.64 | |
| M Azharuddin | not out | 81 | 122 | 103 | 4 | 2 | 78.64 | |
| RR Singh | c PA de Silva b Vaas | 10 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| A Jadeja | st †SKL de Silva b Jayasuriya | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 75.00 | |
| A Kumble | not out | 16 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 200.00 | |
| Extras | (w 3, nb 1) | 4 | ||||||
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| Total | (6 wickets; 50 overs) | 227 | (4.54 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat NA David, A Kuruvilla, BKV Prasad |
| Fall of wickets1-32 (Ganguly), 2-35 (Tendulkar), 3-51 (Karim), 4-168 (Dravid), 5-189 (Singh), 6-201 (Jadeja) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| WPUJC Vaas | 8 | 1 | 35 | 2 | 4.37 | (1w) | ||
| KSC de Silva | 7 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 4.28 | (1w) | ||
| M Muralitharan | 10 | 1 | 30 | 0 | 3.00 | (2nb, 1w) | ||
| HDPK Dharmasena | 10 | 1 | 52 | 1 | 5.20 | |||
| ST Jayasuriya | 10 | 0 | 52 | 2 | 5.20 | |||
| RS Kalpage | 5 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 5.60 |
| Sri Lanka innings (target: 228 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | c Dravid b Prasad | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| MS Atapattu | lbw b Singh | 31 | 117 | 57 | 2 | 0 | 54.38 | |
| PA de Silva | c †Karim b Prasad | 6 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 120.00 | |
| A Ranatunga* | not out | 131 | 221 | 152 | 17 | 0 | 86.18 | |
| RS Mahanama | c †Karim b Singh | 5 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 62.50 | |
| SKL de Silva† | not out | 37 | 84 | 49 | 3 | 0 | 75.51 | |
| Extras | (lb 6, w 12, nb 3) | 21 | ||||||
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| Total | (4 wickets; 44.4 overs) | 231 | (5.17 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat RS Kalpage, HDPK Dharmasena, WPUJC Vaas, M Muralitharan, KSC de Silva |
| Fall of wickets1-0 (Jayasuriya), 2-9 (PA de Silva), 3-117 (Atapattu), 4-125 (Mahanama) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| BKV Prasad | 8 | 0 | 44 | 2 | 5.50 | (4w) | ||
| A Kuruvilla | 7 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 5.00 | (2nb) | ||
| A Kumble | 10 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 3.80 | (2nb, 1w) | ||
| NA David | 8 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 4.50 | (2w) | ||
| SC Ganguly | 3 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 6.33 | (1w) | ||
| RR Singh | 4 | 0 | 29 | 2 | 7.25 | (3w) | ||
| A Jadeja | 4 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 4.50 | (1w) | ||
| SR Tendulkar | 0.4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 9.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to field Points Sri Lanka 2, India 0 |
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ODI debut
SKL de Silva
(Sri Lanka) Player of the match A Ranatunga (Sri Lanka) |
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Umpires
Mohammad Nazir (Pakistan) and Saleem Badar (Pakistan) TV umpire Mohammad Asghar (Bangladesh) Match referee JR Reid (New Zealand) |
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