- ODI no. 1344 | 1998 season
- Played at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
- 7 July 1998 - day/night (50-over match)
| India innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| SC Ganguly | c & b Muralitharan | 109 | 184 | 136 | 6 | 2 | 80.14 | |
| SR Tendulkar | st †Kaluwitharana b Jayasuriya | 128 | 182 | 131 | 8 | 2 | 97.70 | |
| M Azharuddin* | b Chandana | 5 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 83.33 | |
| A Jadeja | b Jayasuriya | 25 | 27 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 166.66 | |
| RR Singh | run out (Jayasuriya) | 15 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 187.50 | |
| AB Agarkar | run out (†Kaluwitharana) | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 166.66 | |
| HH Kanitkar | not out | 5 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 125.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 3, w 12) | 15 | ||||||
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| Total | (6 wickets; 50 overs) | 307 | (6.14 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat NR Mongia†, A Kumble, BKV Prasad, Harbhajan Singh |
| Fall of wickets1-252 (Tendulkar, 43.6 ov), 2-252 (Ganguly, 44.1 ov), 3-262 (Azharuddin, 45.6 ov), 4-297 (Singh, 48.4 ov), 5-297 (Jadeja, 48.5 ov), 6-307 (Agarkar, 49.6 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| GP Wickramasinghe | 7 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 6.14 | (3w) | ||
| MRCN Bandaratilleke | 5 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 7.20 | (3w) | ||
| HDPK Dharmasena | 10 | 0 | 67 | 0 | 6.70 | (2w) | ||
| M Muralitharan | 8 | 0 | 51 | 1 | 6.37 | |||
| ST Jayasuriya | 9 | 0 | 42 | 2 | 4.66 | (1w) | ||
| PA de Silva | 6 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 5.33 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| UDU Chandana | 5 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 6.60 | (2nb, 1w) |
| Sri Lanka innings (target: 308 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | c Ganguly b Agarkar | 32 | 42 | 25 | 2 | 1 | 128.00 | |
| RS Kaluwitharana† | b Agarkar | 24 | 55 | 36 | 3 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| PA de Silva | c Harbhajan Singh b Agarkar | 105 | 164 | 94 | 10 | 0 | 111.70 | |
| MS Atapattu | c Prasad b Harbhajan Singh | 39 | 61 | 51 | 3 | 0 | 76.47 | |
| A Ranatunga* | c †Mongia b Agarkar | 23 | 33 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 104.54 | |
| RS Mahanama | run out (Jadeja) | 44 | 81 | 49 | 1 | 0 | 89.79 | |
| UDU Chandana | b Kumble | 4 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 44.44 | |
| HDPK Dharmasena | lbw b Prasad | 2 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 40.00 | |
| GP Wickramasinghe | run out (Kanitkar) | 5 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 83.33 | |
| MRCN Bandaratilleke | run out (†Mongia) | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| M Muralitharan | not out | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 15, w 4, nb 2) | 22 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 49.3 overs) | 301 | (6.08 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AB Agarkar | 10 | 0 | 53 | 4 | 5.30 | (2nb, 1w) | ||
| BKV Prasad | 10 | 0 | 56 | 1 | 5.60 | (1nb) | ||
| A Kumble | 9.3 | 0 | 57 | 1 | 6.00 | |||
| Harbhajan Singh | 10 | 0 | 57 | 1 | 5.70 | (1w) | ||
| RR Singh | 5 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 5.00 | |||
| HH Kanitkar | 4 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 6.00 | (2w) | ||
| SR Tendulkar | 1 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 13.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss India, who chose to bat Series India won the 1998 Singer-Akai Nidahas Trophy |
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Player of the match
SR Tendulkar (India) Player of the series PA de Silva (Sri Lanka) |
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Umpires
KT Francis and PT Manuel TV umpire BC Cooray Match referee CW Smith (West Indies) |
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