- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR20.5 pushed towards midon, Dravid takes off. Ramesh backs up. Odoyo runs to the ball, but let it go. Dravid stops in the mid pitch. Ramesh stops as well while Tikolo runs in and picks the ball. runs towards the non-striker's stumps and castles the stumps 92/210.4 well pitched up, rapped on the pads. Martin Suji goes up and Ian Robinson takes his own sweet time (like Steve Bucknor) and finally gives Ganguly out 50/1Extras28 (lb 5, nb 2, w 21)TOTAL329/2 (50 Overs, RR: 6.58)Fall of wickets: 1-50 (Sourav Ganguly, 10.4 ov), 2-92 (Sadagoppan Ramesh, 20.5 ov)
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR28 pulled into the hands of Agarkar at deep backward square leg! 147/311.1 pitched up, driven uppishly and Robin the sub brings off a good catch at covers 29/111.2 pitched up on the stumps and he is gone! 29/232.3 on the stumps. perfect ball. given out 165/440.2 flicked to deep midwicket. Robin SIngh takes an easy catch at the boundary 193/544.4 gives himself a bit of room in order to play to covers. That was too fast for him 209/6Extras44 (lb 10, nb 3, w 31)TOTAL235/7 (50 Overs, RR: 4.7)Fall of wickets: 1-29 (Ravi Shah, 11.1 ov), 2-29 (Sandeep Gupta, 11.2 ov), 3-147 (Kennedy Otieno, 27.6 ov), 4-165 (Steve Tikolo, 32.3 ov), 5-193 (Maurice Odumbe, 40.2 ov), 6-209 (Aasif Karim, 44.4 ov), 7-233 (Thomas Odoyo, 49.1 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB J Srinath 10 3 31 1 3.1 4 0 AB Agarkar 10 0 35 1 3.5 7 1 DS Mohanty 10 0 56 4 5.6 0 1 SC Ganguly 9 0 47 0 5.22 3 1 N Chopra 10 2 33 1 3.3 2 0 SR Tendulkar 1 0 23 0 23 2 0
Match Details
Series
Toss
Kenya , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Match number
Season
Match days
23 May 1999 (50-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Match Referee
Points
India 2, Kenya 0
Match Notes
- Mongia left the field at the end of 9 overs. Dravid kept wickets while Robin Singh is the substitute
- Kenya innings: 1x5 ball over (40th over, Ganguly's 5th by Umpire Cowie)
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