- ODI no. 1327 | 1997/98 season
- Played at Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium (neutral venue)
- 24 April 1998 - day/night (50-over match)
| Australia innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| ME Waugh | c †Mongia b Agarkar | 7 | 17 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| AC Gilchrist† | c †Mongia b Kanitkar | 45 | 94 | 60 | 6 | 0 | 75.00 | |
| RT Ponting | c †Mongia b Prasad | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| TM Moody | c †Mongia b Agarkar | 1 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 | |
| MG Bevan | run out (Laxman/Kumble) | 45 | 87 | 63 | 2 | 0 | 71.42 | |
| SR Waugh* | c Agarkar b Kanitkar | 70 | 83 | 71 | 4 | 1 | 98.59 | |
| DS Lehmann | c Sanghvi b Kumble | 70 | 79 | 59 | 5 | 1 | 118.64 | |
| DR Martyn | run out (Jadeja/Prasad) | 16 | 25 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 88.88 | |
| SK Warne | not out | 6 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 85.71 | |
| MS Kasprowicz | c Kanitkar b Prasad | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| DW Fleming | not out | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 3, w 2, nb 1) | 10 | ||||||
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| Total | (9 wickets; 50 overs) | 272 | (5.44 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| BKV Prasad | 10 | 1 | 32 | 2 | 3.20 | |||
| AB Agarkar | 8 | 0 | 61 | 2 | 7.62 | (2nb, 2w) | ||
| A Kumble | 10 | 1 | 46 | 1 | 4.60 | |||
| HH Kanitkar | 10 | 0 | 58 | 2 | 5.80 | (1nb) | ||
| RL Sanghvi | 10 | 0 | 45 | 0 | 4.50 | |||
| VVS Laxman | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11.00 | |||
| SR Tendulkar | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 12.00 |
| India innings (target: 273 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| SC Ganguly | c Moody b Fleming | 23 | 36 | 42 | 2 | 0 | 54.76 | |
| SR Tendulkar | lbw b Kasprowicz | 134 | 195 | 131 | 12 | 3 | 102.29 | |
| NR Mongia† | c †Gilchrist b Fleming | 28 | 69 | 41 | 3 | 0 | 68.29 | |
| M Azharuddin* | c †Gilchrist b Kasprowicz | 58 | 101 | 64 | 5 | 0 | 90.62 | |
| A Jadeja | not out | 11 | 19 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 78.57 | |
| HH Kanitkar | not out | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 300.00 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 7, w 5, nb 2) | 15 | ||||||
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| Total | (4 wickets; 48.3 overs) | 275 | (5.67 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat VVS Laxman, AB Agarkar, A Kumble, BKV Prasad, RL Sanghvi |
| Fall of wickets1-39 (Ganguly, 8.5 ov), 2-128 (Mongia, 24.2 ov), 3-248 (Tendulkar, 44.3 ov), 4-261 (Azharuddin, 46.6 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DW Fleming | 10 | 1 | 47 | 2 | 4.70 | |||
| MS Kasprowicz | 10 | 0 | 48 | 2 | 4.80 | (3w) | ||
| SK Warne | 10 | 0 | 61 | 0 | 6.10 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| TM Moody | 9.3 | 0 | 63 | 0 | 6.63 | |||
| ME Waugh | 3 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 6.66 | (1w) | ||
| SR Waugh | 6 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 4.66 | (2nb) |
| Match details |
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Toss India, who chose to field Series India won the 1997/98 Coca-Cola Cup |
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Player of the match
SR Tendulkar (India) Player of the series SR Tendulkar (India) Bowler of the series DW Fleming (Australia) Fielder of the series RT Ponting (Australia) |
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Umpires
SA Bucknor (West Indies) and Javed Akhtar (Pakistan) TV umpire ID Robinson (Zimbabwe) Match referee Talat Ali (Pakistan) |
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