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Venue : National Stadium, Dhaka
Toss : India won the toss, elected to field first
Match Result : India won by 3 wickets to win the best of three finals 2-1 and with that the Silver Jubilee Independence Cup, 1997/98
Man of the Match : Sourav Ganguly
Man of the Series : Sachin Tendulkar
Pakistan (48 Overs Maximum)
Saeed Anwar c Azharuddin b Harvinder Singh 140 (132) 14 ‘4s’ 2 ‘6s’
Shahid Afridi c Singh b Harvinder Singh 18 (20) 1 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Aamer Sohail c Mongia b Harvinder Singh 14 (17) 1 ‘6s’
Ijaz Ahmed c Sidhu b Javagal Srinath 117 (112) 8 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Azhar Mahmood c Azharuddin b Sachin Tendulkar 10 (6) 1 ‘4s’
Mohammad Hussain not out 2 (2)
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Rashid Latif (C,WK)
Saqlain Mushtaq
Manzoor Akhtar
Aaqib Javed
Extras: 13 (Wides: 6 No Balls: 1 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 6)
Total: 314/5 (Overs: 48.0)
Fall of Wickets: 1-30 (Shahid Afridi), 2-66 (Aamer Sohail), 3-296 (Saeed Anwar), 4-302 (Ijaz Ahmed), 5-314 (Azhar Mahmood)
India Bowling
Javagal Srinath 10-0-61-1 (2wd)
Harvinder Singh 10-0-74-3 (4wd 1nb)
Robin Singh 8-0-47-0
Sourav Ganguly 2-0-5-0
Hrishikesh Kanitkar 6-0-34-0
Sachin Tendulkar 7-0-49-1
Rahul Sanghvi 5-0-38-0
India (Target: 315 from 48 Overs)
Sourav Ganguly b Aaqib Javed 124 (138) 11 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Sachin Tendulkar c Azhar Mahmood b Shahid Afridi 41 (26) 7 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Robin Singh c Aaqib Javed b Mohammad Hussain 82 (83) 4 ‘4s’ 2 ‘6s’
Mohammad Azharuddin (C) c Aamer Sohail b Saqlain Mushtaq 4 (11)
Ajay Jadeja b Saqlain Mushtaq 8 (9) 1 ‘4s’
Navjot Singh Sidhu lbw b Saqlain Mushtaq 5 (4) 1 ‘4s’
Hrishikesh Kanitkar not out 11 (12) 1 ‘4s’
Nayan Mongia (WK) run out (Rashid Latif) 9 (6) 1 ‘4s’
Javagal Srinath not out 5 (3)
Rahul Sanghvi
Harvinder Singh
Extras: 27 (Wides: 12 No Balls: 3 Byes: 1 Leg Byes: 11)
Total: 316/7 (Overs: 47.5)
Fall of Wickets: 1-71 (Sachin Tendulkar), 2-250 (Robin Singh), 3-268 (Mohammad Azharuddin), 4-274 (Sourav Ganguly), 5-281 (Navjot Singh Sidhu), 6-296 (Javagal Jadeja), 7-306 (Nayan Mongia)
Pakistan Bowling
Aaqib Javed 9.2-0-63-1 (2wd 2nb)
Azhar Mahmood 8-0-55-0 (3wd 1nb)
Shahid Afridi 6.4-0-56-1 (2wd 1nb)
Saqlain Mushtaq 9.5-0-66-3 (4wd)
Mohammad Hussain 10-0-40-1
Manzoor Akhtar 4-0-24-0 (1wd)