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Match Date : March 13, 1996
Venue : Eden Gardens, Calcutta (D/N)
Toss : India won the toss and elect to field
Umpires : Steve Dunne and Cyril Mitchley
Match Result : Sri Lanka won by default to advance into the Final of the World Cup
Man of the Match : Aravinda de Silva
Sri Lanka (50 Overs Maximum )
Sanath Jayasuriya c Prasad b Javagal Srinath 1 (3)
Romesh Kaluwitharana (WK) c Manjrekar b Javagal Srinath 0 (1)
Asanka Gurusinha c Kumble b Javagal Srinath 1 (16)
Aravinda de Silva b Anil Kumble 66 (47) 14 ‘4s’
Roshan Mahanama retired hurt 58 (101) 6 ‘4s’
Arjuna Ranatunga (C) lbw b Sachin Tendulkar 35 (42) 4 ‘4s’
Hashan Tillakaratne c Tendulkar b Venkatesh Prasad 32 (43) 1 ‘4s’
Kumar Dharmasena b Sachin Tendulkar 9 (20)
Chaminda Vaas run out (Azharuddin) 23 (16) 3 ‘4s’
Pramodya Wickramasinghe not out 4 (9)
Muttiah Muralitharan not out 5 (4)
Extras : 17 (Wides : 4 No Balls: 2 Byes: 1 Leg Byes: 10)
Total : 251/8 (Overs : 50.0)
Fall of Wickets : 1-1 (Kaluwitharana), 2-1 (Jayasuriya), 3-35 (Gurusinha), 4-85 (de Silva), 5-168 (Ranatunga), 6-206 (Dharmasena), 7-236 (Tillakaratne), 8-244 (Vaas)
India Bowling
Javagal Srinath 7-1-34-3
Anil Kumble 10-0-51-1 (1wd)
Venkatesh Prasad 8-0-50-1 (2wd 2nb)
Aashish Kapoor 10-0-40-0
Ajay Jadeja 5-0-31-0
Sachin Tendulkar 10-1-34-2 (1wd)
India (Target : 252 from 50 Overs)
Sachin Tendulkar st Kaluwitharana b Sanath Jayasuriya 65 (88) 9 ‘4s’
Navjot Singh Sidhu c Jayasuriya b Chaminda Vaas 3 (8)
Sanjay Manjrekar b Sanath Jayasuriya 25 (48) 1 ‘4s’
M Azharuddin (C) c&b Kumar Dharmasena 0 (6)
Vinod Kambli not out 10 (29)
Javagal Srinath run out 6 (6) 1 ‘4s’
Ajay Jadeja b Sanath Jayasuriya 0 (11)
Nayan Mongia (wk) c Jayasuriya b Aravinda de Silva 1 (8)
Aashish Kapoor c de Silva b Muralitharan 0 (1)
Anil Kumble not out 0 (0)
Venkatesh Prasad
Extras : 10 (Wides: 5 No Balls: 0 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 5)
Total : 120/8 (Overs: 34.1)
Fall of Wickets : 1-8 (Sidhu), 2-98 (Tendulkar), 3-99 (Azharuddin), 4-101 (Manjrekar), 5-110 (Srinath), 6-115 (Jadeja), 7-120 (Mongia), 8-120 (Kapoor)
Sri Lanka Bowling
Pramodya Wickramasinghe 5-0-24-0 (2wd)
Chaminda Vaas 6-1-23-1
Muttiah Muralitharan 7.1-0-29-1 (1wd)
Kumar Dharmasena 7-0-24-1
Sanath Jayasuriya 7-1-12-3 (1wd)
Aravinda de Silva 2-0-3-1 (1wd)
- Sri Lanka was awarded the victory after crowd trouble had ensured that there was no chance of any further play in the match after India had lost its 8th wicket.