Srilanka V India AIWA CUP 1999 Match 6

Srilanka V India AIWA CUP 1999 Match 6
Match day:29 August 1999
Umpires: E. K. G. Wijewardene and Gamini Silva (SL)
Player of the match: Robin Singh (IND)
Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
Rain during Sri Lanka's innings revised their target to 271 in 42 overs
Skipper Sachin Tendulkar’s 23rd one-day hundred under pain and agony failed to inspire his team mates as India were knocked out of a final berth by a determined Sri Lanka despite winning the rain-hit last league tie by 23 runs in the AIWA Cup Triangular Cricket Tournament today.

Tendulkar cracked a courageous 120 and raised a 127-run third wicket stand with Saurav Ganguly (85) to enable India pile up 296 for four in 50 overs, but stoppage due to rain left Sri Lanka needing to make 271 in their allotted 42 overs under the Duckworth-Lewis rain rule for an outright win.

India eventually restricted Sri Lanka to 247 for nine, but the hosts achieved the crucial task of reaching 232 which helped them qualify to the August 31 final against Australia with a better net run rate than India after the two teams ended up level with two points from one win each.

Tendulkar decided to play despite severe back pain that saw him grimace time and again after each effort at making big shots, but lifted the hitherto poor batting to give his team a fine chance to restrict Sri Lanka to below 222 before the rain forced readjustment — which would have seen India make it to the final on better net run rate.

But Sri Lankan skipper Sanath Jayasuriya hit a superb 71 in a century opening stand with Marvan Atapattu (55), who completed a neat anchoring job with the aggressive Mahela Jayawardene (62) to help the hosts reach the important 232-run mark in the 40th over.

India were quite unlucky as the rain stoppage of well over half-an-hour gave Sri Lanka some advantage with the umpires also making a total hash of the calculations which saw them suddenly revise the equation on the basis of 42 overs after initially giving out that the Sri Lankan innings would be over 40 overs.

Indian hopes of upstaging Sri Lanka looked well and truly buried as Jayasuriya exploded into an array of shots, wading into paceman Venkatesh Prasad by slamming him to three fours each in successive overs

Jayasuriya raced to his fifty in only 34 balls and his 71 came off only 53 deliveries (8 x 4, 1 x6) even as Atapattu rode his luck at the other end.

The Indian fielding was pathetic for the most part as Tendulkar’s ploy to set an attacking placement paid little dividend.

Leg spinner Anil Kumble once again received punishment, but twice watched in dismay as Ganguly and Rahul Dravid, once again keeping wickets, dropped catches off Atapattu in his first and second overs.

While Atapattu (55 - 87 b, 3 x 4) kept one end steady and ran aggressively, vice-captain Mahela Jayawardene really set up the Sri Lankan success with a run-a-ball 62 (5 x 4, 1 x 6) where he spared none.

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