Sahara 'Friendship' Cup - 5th ODI
Pakistan won by 5 wickets (with 37 balls remaining)
- ODI no. 1232 | 1997 season
- Played at Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club (neutral venue)
- 21 September 1997 (50-over match)
| India innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| SR Tendulkar* | lbw b Azhar Mahmood | 51 | 106 | 64 | 4 | 1 | 79.68 | |
| SC Ganguly | c Azhar Mahmood b Saqlain Mushtaq | 96 | 205 | 136 | 5 | 2 | 70.58 | |
| VG Kambli | c Saqlain Mushtaq b Azhar Mahmood | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 12.50 | |
| M Azharuddin | run out (Ijaz Ahmed/Saqlain Mushtaq) | 50 | 82 | 65 | 6 | 0 | 76.92 | |
| A Jadeja | not out | 23 | 29 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 109.52 | |
| RR Singh | c & b Aaqib Javed | 9 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 128.57 | |
| R Dravid | not out | 3 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 75.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 5, w 8, nb 4) | 17 | ||||||
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| Total | (5 wickets; 50 overs) | 250 | (5.00 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat SS Karim†, A Kuruvilla, Harvinder Singh, DS Mohanty |
| Fall of wickets1-98 (Tendulkar), 2-102 (Kambli), 3-206 (Azharuddin), 4-214 (Ganguly), 5-237 (Singh) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| Aaqib Javed | 10 | 3 | 40 | 1 | 4.00 | (1w) | ||
| Shahid Nazir | 10 | 0 | 66 | 0 | 6.60 | (2nb, 3w) | ||
| Azhar Mahmood | 10 | 1 | 27 | 2 | 2.70 | (2w) | ||
| Saqlain Mushtaq | 10 | 1 | 51 | 1 | 5.10 | (2w) | ||
| Saleem Malik | 1 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 13.00 | |||
| Shahid Afridi | 9 | 0 | 48 | 0 | 5.33 | (4nb) |
| Pakistan innings (target: 251 runs from 48 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| Shahid Afridi | c Tendulkar b Ganguly | 39 | 60 | 30 | 5 | 2 | 130.00 | |
| Ijaz Ahmed | c Tendulkar b Harvinder Singh | 60 | 63 | 42 | 9 | 2 | 142.85 | |
| Saleem Malik | c †Karim b Harvinder Singh | 8 | 28 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 72.72 | |
| Rameez Raja* | b Ganguly | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Inzamam-ul-Haq | not out | 71 | 148 | 86 | 8 | 0 | 82.55 | |
| Hasan Raza | c †Karim b Mohanty | 41 | 123 | 84 | 3 | 0 | 48.80 | |
| Moin Khan† | not out | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Extras | (b 2, lb 9, w 14, nb 4) | 29 | ||||||
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| Total | (5 wickets; 41.5 overs) | 251 | (6.00 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat Azhar Mahmood, Saqlain Mushtaq, Aaqib Javed, Shahid Nazir |
| Fall of wickets1-109 (Shahid Afridi), 2-109 (Ijaz Ahmed), 3-111 (Rameez Raja), 4-127 (Saleem Malik), 5-240 (Hasan Raza) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| A Kuruvilla | 9.5 | 0 | 80 | 0 | 8.13 | (6nb) | ||
| DS Mohanty | 9 | 1 | 66 | 1 | 7.33 | (4w) | ||
| Harvinder Singh | 8 | 0 | 33 | 2 | 4.12 | (5w) | ||
| SC Ganguly | 9 | 1 | 33 | 2 | 3.66 | |||
| RR Singh | 4 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 3.75 | (3w) | ||
| A Jadeja | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 6.50 | (2w) |
| Match details |
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Toss Pakistan, who chose to field Series India won the 5-match series 4-1 |
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Player of the match
SC Ganguly (India) Player of the series SC Ganguly (India) |
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Umpires
SA Bucknor (West Indies) and SG Randell (Australia) TV umpire RE Koertzen (South Africa) Match referee JL Hendriks (West Indies) |
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Sachin Tendulkar with the Sahara Cup after beating Pakistan 4-1 © AFP |
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