India v Pakistan (1280)

a10964 o1280	India v Pakistan
	Coca-Cola Silver Jubilee Independence Cup 1997/98 (3rd Final)
Venue	Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka on 18th January 1998 (50-over match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	India won the toss and decided to field
Result	India won by 3 wickets
Umpires	RE Koertzen, RB Tiffin
Third umpire	DB Cowie
Referee	MH Denness
Man of the Match	SC Ganguly

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Pakistan innings Runs Balls Mins 4s 6s Saeed Anwar c Azharuddin b Harvinder Singh 140 132 14 2 Shahid Afridi c RR Singh b Harvinder Singh 18 20 1 1 Aamer Sohail c Mongia b Harvinder Singh 14 17 - 1 Ijaz Ahmed c Sidhu b Srinath 117 112 8 1 Azhar Mahmood c Azharuddin b Tendulkar 10 6 1 - Mohammad Hussain not out 2 2 - - *+Rashid Latif did not bat Inzamam-ul-Haq did not bat Saqlain Mushtaq did not bat Manzoor Akhtar did not bat Aaqib Javed did not bat Extras (6 lb, 1 nb, 6 w) 13 Total (5 wickets, innings closed, 48 overs) 314 Fall of wickets: 1-30 (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, 48 ov) India bowling Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Wides No-Balls Srinath 10 0 61 1 2 - Harvinder Singh 10 0 74 3 4 1 RR Singh 8 0 47 0 - - Ganguly 2 0 5 0 - - Kanitkar 6 0 34 0 - - Tendulkar 7 0 49 1 - - Sanghvi 5 0 38 0 - - India innings Runs Balls Mins 4s 6s SC Ganguly b Aaqib Javed 124 138 11 1 SR Tendulkar c Azhar Mahmood b Shahid Afridi 41 26 7 1 RR Singh c Aaqib Javed b Mohammad Hussain 82 83 4 2 *M Azharuddin c Aamer Sohail b Saqlain Mushtaq 4 11 - - AD Jadeja b Saqlain Mushtaq 8 9 1 - NS Sidhu lbw b Saqlain Mushtaq 5 4 1 - HH Kanitkar not out 11 12 1 - +NR Mongia run out (Rashid Latif) 9 6 1 - J Srinath not out 5 3 - - Harvinder Singh did not bat RL Sanghvi did not bat Extras (1 b, 11 lb, 3 nb, 12 w) 27 Total (7 wickets, 47.5 overs) 316 Fall of wickets: 1-71 (Tendulkar, 8.2 ov), 2-250 (RR 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) Pakistan bowling Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Wides No-Balls Aaqib Javed 9.2 0 63 1 2 2 Azhar Mahmood 8 0 55 0 3 1 Shahid Afridi 6.4 0 56 1 2 2 Saqlain Mushtaq 9.5 0 66 3 4 - Mohammad Hussain 10 0 40 1 - - Manzoor Akhtar 4 0 24 0 1 -

Notes
--> The match was reduced to 48 overs per side
--> SC Ganguly passed his previous highest ODIs score of 113
--> SC Ganguly passed 3500 runs in ListA Matches when he reached 49
--> RL Sanghvi made his debut in ODIs

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Due to bad light 2 overs reduced from each innings.