Cherry Blossom Sharjah Cup - 5th match
Zimbabwe won by 4 wickets (with 8 balls remaining)
| Sri Lanka innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| ST Jayasuriya* | b Streak | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| DA Gunawardene | c Ebrahim b Blignaut | 24 | 54 | 36 | 2 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| MS Atapattu | c †Taibu b Ervine | 29 | 66 | 45 | 6 | 0 | 64.44 | |
| KC Sangakkara | c Flower b Price | 25 | 66 | 50 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| HP Tillakaratne | c Blignaut b Streak | 31 | 69 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 59.61 | |
| KS Lokuarachchi | c Ebrahim b Hondo | 28 | 50 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 65.11 | |
| HDPK Dharmasena | c Streak b Rennie | 16 | 28 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 64.00 | |
| HAPW Jayawardene† | c †Taibu b Blignaut | 4 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| TCB Fernando | not out | 14 | 27 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| M Muralitharan | c †Taibu b Blignaut | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| RAP Nissanka | lbw b Streak | 11 | 19 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 91.66 | |
| Extras | (lb 1, w 9, nb 1) | 11 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 49.1 overs; 209 mins) | 193 | (3.92 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| HH Streak | 7.1 | 1 | 36 | 3 | 5.02 | (1w) | ||
| AM Blignaut | 10 | 0 | 33 | 3 | 3.30 | (3w) | ||
| DT Hondo | 10 | 0 | 43 | 1 | 4.30 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| SM Ervine | 8 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 2.50 | (1w) | ||
| RW Price | 10 | 0 | 43 | 1 | 4.30 | |||
| GJ Rennie | 4 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 4.25 | (2w) |
| Zimbabwe innings (target: 194 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| CB Wishart | b Nissanka | 14 | 18 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 116.66 | |
| DA Marillier | c Tillakaratne b Muralitharan | 32 | 60 | 38 | 3 | 0 | 84.21 | |
| GJ Rennie | c †Jayawardene b Lokuarachchi | 26 | 70 | 69 | 2 | 0 | 37.68 | |
| GW Flower | not out | 61 | 118 | 88 | 6 | 0 | 69.31 | |
| T Taibu† | c †Jayawardene b Dharmasena | 31 | 44 | 54 | 3 | 0 | 57.40 | |
| SM Ervine | b Lokuarachchi | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| DD Ebrahim | lbw b Lokuarachchi | 1 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14.28 | |
| HH Streak* | not out | 19 | 23 | 25 | 3 | 0 | 76.00 | |
| Extras | (w 6, nb 4) | 10 | ||||||
| Total | (6 wickets; 48.4 overs; 178 mins) | 194 | (3.98 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat AM Blignaut, RW Price, DT Hondo |
| Fall of wickets1-36 (Wishart, 3.6 ov), 2-65 (Marillier, 15.1 ov), 3-103 (Rennie, 24.6 ov), 4-158 (Taibu, 39.4 ov), 5-165 (Ervine, 40.6 ov), 6-167 (Ebrahim, 42.2 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| TCB Fernando | 2 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 10.00 | (2nb) | ||
| RAP Nissanka | 6.4 | 0 | 40 | 1 | 6.00 | (2nb, 3w) | ||
| HDPK Dharmasena | 10 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 3.30 | |||
| M Muralitharan | 10 | 3 | 27 | 1 | 2.70 | |||
| KS Lokuarachchi | 10 | 2 | 37 | 3 | 3.70 | |||
| ST Jayasuriya | 10 | 1 | 37 | 0 | 3.70 | (3w) |
| Match details |
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Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to bat Points Zimbabwe 5, Sri Lanka 1 |
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Player of the match
GW Flower (Zimbabwe) |
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Umpires
BR Doctrove (West Indies) and AV Jayaprakash (India) TV umpire KC Barbour (Zimbabwe) Match referee AM Ebrahim (Zimbabwe) |
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Apr 8, 2003 Zimbabwe team members (R) shake hands with the outgoing Sri Lankan team © AFP |
Apr 8, 2003 Zimbabwe team members greet their not-out mates Health Streak (R) and Grant Flower © AFP |
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