Silver Jubilee Independence Cup - 3rd final
India won by 3 wickets (with 1 ball remaining)
- ODI no. 1279 | 1997/98 season
- Played at National Stadium, Dhaka (neutral venue)
- 18 January 1998 (50-over match)
| Pakistan innings (48 overs maximum) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
| Saeed Anwar | c Azharuddin b Harvinder Singh | 140 | 132 | 14 | 2 | 106.06 | ||
| Shahid Afridi | c Singh b Harvinder Singh | 18 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 90.00 | ||
| Aamer Sohail | c †Mongia b Harvinder Singh | 14 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 82.35 | ||
| Ijaz Ahmed | c Sidhu b Srinath | 117 | 112 | 8 | 1 | 104.46 | ||
| Azhar Mahmood | c Azharuddin b Tendulkar | 10 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 166.66 | ||
| Mohammad Hussain | not out | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | ||
| Extras | (lb 6, w 6, nb 1) | 13 | ||||||
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| Total | (5 wickets; 48 overs) | 314 | (6.54 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat Rashid Latif*†, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Saqlain Mushtaq, Manzoor Akhtar, Aaqib Javed |
| Fall of wickets1-30 (Shahid Afridi, 5.4 ov), 2-66 (Aamer Sohail, 11.6 ov), 3-296 (Saeed Anwar, 45.4 ov), 4-302 (Ijaz Ahmed, 46.4 ov), 5-314 (Azhar Mahmood, 47.6 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| J Srinath | 10 | 0 | 61 | 1 | 6.10 | (2w) | ||
| Harvinder Singh | 10 | 0 | 74 | 3 | 7.40 | (1nb, 4w) | ||
| RR Singh | 8 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 5.87 | |||
| SC Ganguly | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2.50 | |||
| HH Kanitkar | 6 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 5.66 | |||
| SR Tendulkar | 7 | 0 | 49 | 1 | 7.00 | |||
| RL Sanghvi | 5 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 7.60 |
| India innings (target: 315 runs from 48 overs) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
| SC Ganguly | b Aaqib Javed | 124 | 138 | 11 | 1 | 89.85 | ||
| SR Tendulkar | c Azhar Mahmood b Shahid Afridi | 41 | 26 | 7 | 1 | 157.69 | ||
| RR Singh | c Aaqib Javed b Mohammad Hussain | 82 | 83 | 4 | 2 | 98.79 | ||
| M Azharuddin* | c Aamer Sohail b Saqlain Mushtaq | 4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 36.36 | ||
| A Jadeja | b Saqlain Mushtaq | 8 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 88.88 | ||
| NS Sidhu | lbw b Saqlain Mushtaq | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 125.00 | ||
| HH Kanitkar | not out | 11 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 91.66 | ||
| NR Mongia† | run out (†Rashid Latif) | 9 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 150.00 | ||
| J Srinath | not out | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 166.66 | ||
| Extras | (b 1, lb 11, w 12, nb 3) | 27 | ||||||
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| Total | (7 wickets; 47.5 overs) | 316 | (6.60 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat Harvinder Singh, RL Sanghvi |
| Fall of wickets1-71 (Tendulkar, 8.2 ov), 2-250 (Singh, 38.1 ov), 3-268 (Azharuddin, 41.2 ov), 4-274 (Ganguly, 42.4 ov), 5-281 (Sidhu, 43.2 ov), 6-296 (Jadeja, 45.4 ov), 7-306 (Mongia, 46.6 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| Aaqib Javed | 9.2 | 0 | 63 | 1 | 6.75 | (2nb, 2w) | ||
| Azhar Mahmood | 8 | 0 | 55 | 0 | 6.87 | (1nb, 3w) | ||
| Shahid Afridi | 6.4 | 0 | 56 | 1 | 8.40 | (2nb, 2w) | ||
| Saqlain Mushtaq | 9.5 | 0 | 66 | 3 | 6.71 | (4w) | ||
| Mohammad Hussain | 10 | 0 | 40 | 1 | 4.00 | |||
| Manzoor Akhtar | 4 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 6.00 | (1w) |
| Match details |
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Toss India, who chose to field Series India won the best-of-3-finals 2-1 |
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ODI debut
RL Sanghvi
(India) Player of the match SC Ganguly (India) Player of the series SR Tendulkar (India) |
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Umpires
RE Koertzen (South Africa) and RB Tiffin (Zimbabwe) TV umpire DB Cowie (New Zealand) Match referee MH Denness (England) |
| Match notes |
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