Silver Jubilee Independence Cup - 2nd final
Pakistan won by 6 wickets (with 111 balls remaining)
- ODI no. 1277 | 1997/98 season
- Played at National Stadium, Dhaka (neutral venue)
- 16 January 1998 (50-over match)
| India innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| SC Ganguly | c & b Mohammad Hussain | 26 | 93 | 43 | 2 | 0 | 60.46 | |
| SR Tendulkar | b Azhar Mahmood | 1 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | |
| M Azharuddin* | c Saeed Anwar b Mohammad Hussain | 66 | 116 | 88 | 6 | 0 | 75.00 | |
| NS Sidhu | c Azhar Mahmood b Mohammad Hussain | 6 | 16 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 28.57 | |
| A Jadeja | c & b Aaqib Javed | 34 | 77 | 66 | 1 | 0 | 51.51 | |
| RR Singh | c Shahid Afridi b Mohammad Hussain | 5 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 38.46 | |
| NR Mongia† | c Aamer Sohail b Saqlain Mushtaq | 10 | 28 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 38.46 | |
| SV Bahutule | st †Rashid Latif b Saqlain Mushtaq | 11 | 25 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| J Srinath | b Aaqib Javed | 12 | 17 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 85.71 | |
| Harvinder Singh | not out | 3 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 60.00 | |
| DS Mohanty | c Ijaz Ahmed b Saqlain Mushtaq | 4 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 44.44 | |
| Extras | (lb 3, w 5, nb 3) | 11 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 49.5 overs) | 189 | (3.79 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| Aaqib Javed | 10 | 0 | 49 | 2 | 4.90 | (1nb, 2w) | ||
| Azhar Mahmood | 7 | 1 | 28 | 1 | 4.00 | (3w) | ||
| Saqlain Mushtaq | 9.5 | 0 | 36 | 3 | 3.66 | (2nb) | ||
| Mohammad Hussain | 10 | 1 | 33 | 4 | 3.30 | |||
| Shahid Afridi | 10 | 2 | 21 | 0 | 2.10 | |||
| Manzoor Akhtar | 3 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 6.33 |
| Pakistan innings (target: 190 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| Saeed Anwar | c Ganguly b Harvinder Singh | 51 | 68 | 40 | 8 | 1 | 127.50 | |
| Shahid Afridi | c Bahutule b Srinath | 21 | 16 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 161.53 | |
| Aamer Sohail | c Azharuddin b Singh | 36 | 74 | 56 | 3 | 0 | 64.28 | |
| Ijaz Ahmed | not out | 40 | 71 | 46 | 5 | 0 | 86.95 | |
| Inzamam-ul-Haq | c Sidhu b Singh | 40 | 44 | 40 | 3 | 3 | 100.00 | |
| Mohammad Hussain | not out | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 2, w 1, nb 2) | 5 | ||||||
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| Total | (4 wickets; 31.3 overs) | 193 | (6.12 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat Azhar Mahmood, Rashid Latif*†, Saqlain Mushtaq, Manzoor Akhtar, Aaqib Javed |
| Fall of wickets1-31 (Shahid Afridi, 2.5 ov), 2-105 (Saeed Anwar, 13.4 ov), 3-123 (Aamer Sohail, 18.3 ov), 4-189 (Inzamam-ul-Haq, 30.5 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| J Srinath | 7 | 1 | 38 | 1 | 5.42 | (3nb, 1w) | ||
| DS Mohanty | 2 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 13.00 | (1nb) | ||
| Harvinder Singh | 5 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 6.60 | (1nb) | ||
| SV Bahutule | 5 | 0 | 53 | 0 | 10.60 | |||
| RR Singh | 9 | 3 | 24 | 2 | 2.66 | (1nb) | ||
| SR Tendulkar | 3.3 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 4.85 |
| Match details |
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Toss India, who chose to bat Series Best-of-3-finals level 1-1 |
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Player of the match
Mohammad Hussain (Pakistan) |
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Umpires
DB Cowie (New Zealand) and RE Koertzen (South Africa) TV umpire RB Tiffin (Zimbabwe) Match referee MH Denness (England) |
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