Silver Jubilee Independence Cup - 1st final
India won by 8 wickets (with 53 balls remaining)
- ODI no. 1276 | 1997/98 season
- Played at National Stadium, Dhaka (neutral venue)
- 14 January 1998 (50-over match)
| Pakistan innings (46 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| Saeed Anwar | c Ganguly b Bahutule | 38 | 105 | 60 | 2 | 0 | 63.33 | |
| Shahid Afridi | c Ganguly b Harvinder Singh | 29 | 50 | 41 | 4 | 0 | 70.73 | |
| Aamer Sohail | c †Mongia b Mohanty | 10 | 25 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 58.82 | |
| Ijaz Ahmed | st †Mongia b Tendulkar | 34 | 68 | 52 | 2 | 0 | 65.38 | |
| Inzamam-ul-Haq | c Harvinder Singh b Tendulkar | 33 | 50 | 48 | 1 | 0 | 68.75 | |
| Azhar Mahmood | b Srinath | 30 | 37 | 32 | 2 | 1 | 93.75 | |
| Manzoor Akhtar | st †Mongia b Tendulkar | 9 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 90.00 | |
| Rashid Latif*† | c Azharuddin b Srinath | 1 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| Saqlain Mushtaq | not out | 7 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 77.77 | |
| Mushtaq Ahmed | not out | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 250.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 4, w 7) | 11 | ||||||
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| Total | (8 wickets; 46 overs) | 212 | (4.60 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat Aaqib Javed |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| J Srinath | 9 | 1 | 40 | 2 | 4.44 | (4w) | ||
| DS Mohanty | 9 | 0 | 46 | 1 | 5.11 | (1w) | ||
| Harvinder Singh | 5 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 4.00 | |||
| SV Bahutule | 7 | 0 | 31 | 1 | 4.42 | |||
| RR Singh | 9 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 2.88 | |||
| SR Tendulkar | 7 | 0 | 45 | 3 | 6.42 | (2w) |
| India innings (target: 213 runs from 46 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| SC Ganguly | lbw b Mushtaq Ahmed | 68 | 124 | 87 | 8 | 0 | 78.16 | |
| SR Tendulkar | b Shahid Afridi | 95 | 104 | 78 | 6 | 5 | 121.79 | |
| M Azharuddin* | not out | 30 | 45 | 38 | 2 | 0 | 78.94 | |
| A Jadeja | not out | 11 | 25 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 52.38 | |
| Extras | (lb 2, w 6, nb 1) | 9 | ||||||
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| Total | (2 wickets; 37.1 overs) | 213 | (5.73 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat NS Sidhu, RR Singh, SV Bahutule, NR Mongia†, J Srinath, DS Mohanty, Harvinder Singh |
| Fall of wickets1-159 (Tendulkar, 24.6 ov), 2-182 (Ganguly, 30.1 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| Aaqib Javed | 4 | 1 | 24 | 0 | 6.00 | |||
| Azhar Mahmood | 4 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 6.50 | |||
| Saqlain Mushtaq | 10 | 0 | 53 | 0 | 5.30 | (4w) | ||
| Mushtaq Ahmed | 9 | 0 | 48 | 1 | 5.33 | (1w) | ||
| Shahid Afridi | 9 | 0 | 49 | 1 | 5.44 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| Manzoor Akhtar | 1.1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 9.42 |
| Match details |
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Toss Pakistan, who chose to bat Series India led the best-of-3-finals 1-0 |
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Player of the match
SR Tendulkar (India) |
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Umpires
DB Cowie (New Zealand) and RB Tiffin (Zimbabwe) TV umpire RE Koertzen (South Africa) Match referee MH Denness (England) |
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