The 1997 Pepsi Independence Cup was a quadrangular ODI cricket

One-day International

A One Day International is a form of limited overs cricket, in which a fixed number of overs, usually 50, but in the past 40, 45 or 60 overs, are played between two teams with international status. The Cricket World Cup is played in this format...

 tournament held in May, 1997 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the independence of India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. It featured the national cricket teams of New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the hosts India. The tournament was won by Sri Lanka, which defeated Pakistan in the best-of-three finals.

Indian independence celebrations

The tournament was organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India

Board of Control for Cricket in India

The Board of Control for Cricket in India , headquartered at Mumbai, is the national governing body for all cricket in India. It's not the apex governing body in India. The board was formed in December 1928 as BCCI replaced Calcutta Cricket Club. BCCI is a society, registered under the Tamil Nadu...

 (BCCI) and sponsored by PepsiCo

PepsiCo

PepsiCo Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York, United States, with interests in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products. PepsiCo was formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company...

 as part of the many national celebrations being held in 1997 for the 50th anniversary of India's independence from colonial rule. The Independence Cup trophy featured a gold inscripted image of Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , pronounced . 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement...

 and his followers on the Dandi March during the 1930-31 Salt Satyagraha

Salt Satyagraha

The Salt March, also known as the Salt Satyagrahah began with the Dandi March on March 12, 1930, and was an important part of the Indian independence movement. It was a campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly in colonial India, and triggered the wider...

. The tournament concept was later emulated in Sri Lanka, which held an Independence Cup tournament to mark its 50th anniversary of independence in 1998, and in Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

 in 1998. The BCCI also used the touranment to celebrate 50 years of Indian cricket. Along with a television documentary on the history of Indian cricket broadcast on Doordarshan

DoorDarshan

Doordarshan is an Indian public service broadcaster, a division of Prasar Bharati. It is one of the largest broadcasting organizations in India in terms of the infrastructure of studios and transmitters. Recently, it has also started Digital Terrestrial Transmitters. On September 15, 2009,...

, India's Test cricket

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

 captains were honoured during the 2nd final at the Eden Gardens

Eden Gardens

Eden Gardens is a cricket ground in Kolkata , India. It is the home of the Bengal cricket team and the Indian Premier League's Kolkata Knight Riders, as well as being a Test and One Day International ground. It is the largest cricket stadium in India by seating capacity...

 in Calcutta (now Kolkata) - from the then 86-year old Lala Amarnath

Lala Amarnath

Nanik Amarnath Bhardwaj was an Indian Test cricketer. He was the first cricketer to score a Test century for the Indian cricket team, which he achieved on debut...

 to the then-captain, 24-year old Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and one-day international cricket. He is the only male player to score a double century in the history of ODI cricket...

. All the captains took a lap around the Eden Gardens in a jeep, receiving a standing ovation from the 75,000-strong assembled crowd. Each man received a silver salver, while Vijay Hazare

Vijay Hazare

Vijay Samuel Hazare was an Indian cricket player from the state of Maharashtra. He captained the Indian cricket team in 14 matches between 1951 and 1953...

 received the C. K. Nayadu Trophy

C. K. Nayudu

Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu , also known as CK, was an Indian cricketer who served as India's first Test captain. He was born in Nagpur, Maharashtra and died in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. He played first-class cricket regularly till 1958, and returned for one last time in 1963 at the age of 68...

. The captains honoured included Polly Umrigar

Polly Umrigar

Pahlan Ratanji "Polly" Umrigar was an Indian cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Bombay, and Test cricket in the Indian cricket team, mainly as a middle-order batsman but also bowling occasional medium pace and off spin. He captained the Indian team in eight Test matches from 1955 to...

, Datta Gaekwad

Datta Gaekwad

Dattajirao Krishnarao Gaekwad is a former Indian cricketer. He appeared in 11 Test matches, toured England in 1952 and 1959 and West Indies in 1952-53. He captained the Indian team in the 1959 tour. As a batsman Gaekwad "possessed a sure defence and delightfully crisp shots especially through the...

, Pankaj Roy

Pankaj Roy

Pankaj Roy was an Indian cricketer. A right-handed opening batsman, he is best known for establishing the world record opening partnership of 413 runs, together with Vinoo Mankad, against New Zealand at Chennai. The record stood until 2008. He was honoured with the Padma Shri...

, Gulabrai Ramchand

Gulabrai Ramchand

Gulabrai Sipahimalani 'Ram' Ramchand was an Indian cricketer who captained India to a famous win against Australia in his only series as captain....

, Nari Contractor

Nari Contractor

Nariman Jamshedji "Nari" Contractor is a former cricket player. He was left-handed opening batsman whose international career was ended abruptly by a serious injury....

, Chandu Borde

Chandu Borde

Chandrakant Gulabrao "Chandu" Borde born 21 July 1934 in Poona In Marathi Christian Family, is a ex-cricketer who was a member of the Indian team between 1958 and 1970. Following his retirement, Borde became a cricket administrator, serving as the Chairman of national selectors...

, Ajit Wadekar

Ajit Wadekar

Ajit Laxman Wadekar is a former international cricketer. He played domestic first-class cricket for the Mumbai cricket team....

, Bishen Singh Bedi, Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan

Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan

Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan ; is a former Indian cricketer. He played for Derbyshire in English county cricket from 1973 to 1975. He played Test cricket for the Indian cricket team, and later became an umpire on the elite International Cricket Council Test panel...

, Sunil Gavaskar

Sunil Gavaskar

Sunil Manohar "Sunny" Gavaskar is a former cricketer who played during the 1970s and 1980s for Bombay and India. Widely regarded as one of the greatest opening batsmen in cricket history, Gavaskar set world records during his career for the most Test runs and most Test centuries scored by any...

, Kapil Dev

Kapil Dev

Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj , better known as Kapil Dev, is a former Indian cricketer. He captained the Indian cricket team which won the 1983 Cricket World Cup...

, Ravi Shastri

Ravi Shastri

Ravishankar Jayadritha Shastri is a former Indian cricketer and captain. He was an all–rounder who batted right-handed and bowled left arm spin. His international career started when he was 18 years old and lasted for 12 years...

, Krishnamachari Srikkanth

Krishnamachari Srikkanth

Krishnamachari Srikkanth is a former captain of the Indian cricket team and the current chairman of the selection committee...

 and Mohammad Azharuddin

Mohammad Azharuddin

Mohammad Azharuddin also known as Azhar, is an Indian politician and former cricketer. He was an accomplished batsman and captained the Indian cricket team for much of the 1990s, until his involvement in a match-fixing scandal forced him into retirement...

.

India

• Sachin Tendulkar
  Sachin Tendulkar
  Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and one-day international cricket. He is the only male player to score a double century in the history of ODI cricket...
  
   (captain)
• Anil Kumble
  Anil Kumble
  Anil Kumble is a former Indian cricketer and captain of the Indian Test cricket team. He is a right-arm leg spin bowler and a right-hand batsman. He is currently the leading wicket-taker for India in both Test and One Day International matches...
  
   (vice-captain)
• Dodda Ganesh
  Dodda Ganesh
  Doddanarasiah Ganesh is a former Indian cricketer who played in 4 Tests and one ODI in 1997. He was a right arm seam bowler....
  
  
• Abey Kuruvilla
  Abey Kuruvilla
  Abey Kuruvilla is a former Indian pace bowler of the mid 1990s.Kuruvilla stood a towering tall and coupled with his broad frame cut an imposing figure on the field....
  
  
• Rahul Dravid
  Rahul Dravid
  Rahul Sharad Dravid , is a cricketer in the Indian national team, of which he has been a regular member since 1996. He was appointed as the captain of the Indian cricket team in October 2005 and resigned from the post in September 2007. Dravid was honoured as one of the top-five Wisden Cricketers...
  
  
• Ajay Jadeja
  Ajay Jadeja
  Ajaysinhji Daulatsinhji Jadeja was born on 1 February 1971 in royal rajput family of Jamnagar, Gujarat. He was a regular in the Indian cricket team between 1992 and 2000, playing in 15 Test matches and 196 One Day Internationals. His cricketing achievements were overshadowed by a 5 year ban for...
  
  
• Venkatesh Prasad
  Venkatesh Prasad
  Bapu Krishnarao Venkatesh Prasad is a former Indian cricketer. He is the bowling coach for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League, having formerly performed the same role for the Indian cricket team from 2007 to 2009. He made his debut in 1996...
  
  
• Nayan Mongia
  Nayan Mongia
  Nayan Ramlal Mongia is a former Indian cricketer. He played as a right-handed batsman and a wicketkeeper. Currently, he is a cricket analyst....
  
   (wicket-keeper)
• Sunil Joshi
  Sunil Joshi
  Sunil Bandacharya Joshi is a former Indian cricketer. He is an all-rounder who bowls slow left arm spin and bats left-handed. He used to travel 40 miles to Hubli each morning for practice, and then return to his native town of Gadag in time for school...
  
  
• Gagan Khoda
  Gagan Khoda
  Gagan Khoda is a former Indian cricketer. He played two One Day Internationals in 1998. Despite scoring 89 runs in one of those two innings, he never made it to the Indian team after those two matches....
  
  
• Sourav Ganguly
  Sourav Ganguly
  Sourav Chandidas Ganguly is a former Indian cricketer, and captain of the Indian national team. Born into an affluent family, Ganguly was introduced into the world of cricket by his elder brother Snehasish. He is regarded as one of India's most successful captains in modern times. He started his...
  
  
• Vinod Kambli
  Vinod Kambli
  Vinod Ganpat Kambli is a former Indian cricketer, who played for India as a middle order batsman, as well as for Mumbai and Boland, South Africa.He is childhood friend of ace cricketer Sachin Tendulkar...
  
  
• Noel David
  Noel David
  Noel Arthur David is a former Indian cricketer. He played domestic cricket for Hyderabad and played four One Day Internationals for India in 1997....
  
  
• Robin Singh
  Robin Singh
  Robin Singh , full name Rabindra Ramanarayan Singh is a former all-rounder who played for India. He is currently the coach of Mumbai Indians...
  
  

The Indian team coach cum manager was Madan Lal

Madan Lal

Madan Lal Udhouram Sharma is a former Indian cricketer and Indian national cricket coach. He currently coaches Delhi Giants in the Indian Cricket League...

. Notably missing from the squad was former captain and lead batsman Mohammad Azharuddin

Mohammad Azharuddin

Mohammad Azharuddin also known as Azhar, is an Indian politician and former cricketer. He was an accomplished batsman and captained the Indian cricket team for much of the 1990s, until his involvement in a match-fixing scandal forced him into retirement...

, who was dropped. Lead pace bowler Javagal Srinath

Javagal Srinath

Javagal Srinath is a former Indian cricketer. He was a frontline fast bowler for the Indian cricket team until his retirement, being the second Indian pace bowler after Kapil Dev to take 200 Test wickets. One ball that he bowled during the 1996 tour of South Africa measured...

 was ruled out of the first half of the tournament due to a shoulder injury.

New Zealand

• Stephen Fleming
  Stephen Fleming
  Stephen Paul Fleming ONZM is a New Zealand cricketer, and the former captain of the New Zealand national cricket team, known as the Black Caps, in Test and one-day cricket...
  
   (captain)
• Nathan Astle
  Nathan Astle
  Nathan John Astle is a former New Zealand cricketer. He was an attacking batsman who liked to play batting shots such as the cover drive and the pull shot. He also scored the world's fastest Test double century in terms of balls faced. This remarkable innings of 222 was scored in just 168 balls...
  
  
• Chris Cairns
• Heath Davis
  Heath Davis
  Heath Te-Ihi-O-Te-Rangi Davis is a former New Zealand cricketer. He played five Tests and eleven One Day Internationals in the 1990s....
  
  
• Chris Harris
  Chris Harris (cricketer)
  Chris Zinzan Harris is a former New Zealand cricketer who had become, over the course of the 1990s, a folk-hero in New Zealand cricket....
  
  
• Matt Horne
• Gavin Larsen
  Gavin Larsen
  Gavin Rolf Larsen is a former New Zealand cricketer who specialised in the art of economical bowling. He was known playfully by his team mates as "The Postman", as mentioned in Danny Morrison's biography, Mad As I Wanna Be...
  
  
• Craig McMillan
  Craig McMillan
  Craig Douglas McMillan is a former New Zealand international cricketer at Test, One Day International and Twenty20 level. He was a right-handed batsman and useful right-arm medium pace bowler and played for Canterbury in New Zealand first-class cricket...
  
  
• Shayne O'Connor
  Shayne O'Connor
  Shayne Barry O'Connor played 19 Tests and 38 One Day Internationals for New Zealand, he retired from all cricket after the 2003 Cricket World Cup.O'Connor also played for Central Otago in the Hawke Cup....
  
  
• Dipak Patel
  Dipak Patel
  Dipak Narshibhai Patel played 37 Tests and 75 One Day Internationals for the New Zealand cricket team....
  
  
• Adam Parore
  Adam Parore
  Adam Craig Parore is a former wicket-keeper and batsman for the New Zealand cricket team. He played 78 Test cricket matches for New Zealand and 179 One Day International cricket matches...
  
   (wicket-keeper)
• Andrew Penn
  Andrew Penn
  Andrew Jonathan Penn is a former New Zealand cricketer. He played five One Day Internationals but never played a Test for New Zealand. Penn now works as a solicitor in property and commercial law. Penn also played for Wanganui in the Hawke Cup. He was born in Wanganui....
  
  
• Bryan Young
  Bryan Young (cricketer)
  Bryan Andrew Young is a cricketer who has played 35 Tests and 74 One Day Internationals for New Zealand. He is perhaps most well known for pocketing the ball after taking a catch while fielding in the slips....
  
  
• Daniel Vettori
  Daniel Vettori
  Daniel Luca Vettori ONZM is a cricketer for the New Zealand cricket team. He is the eighth player in Test history to take 300 wickets and score 3,000 runs. He is the youngest player to have represented New Zealand in Test cricket, having made his debut in 1996–97 at the age of 18...
  
  

Pakistan

• Rameez Raja
  Rameez Raja
  Rameez Hasan Raja is a former Pakistani right handed batsman in cricket, who represented the Pakistan cricket team during the 1980s and 1990s. He also worked as captain of the national team...
  
   (captain)
• Saeed Anwar
  Saeed Anwar
  Saeed Anwar is a former Pakistani opening batsman. A left-hander, Anwar is most notable for scoring 194 runs against India in Chennai in 1997, then the highest, and now the joint second highest individual score in a One Day International.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Inzamam-ul-Haq
  Inzamam-ul-Haq
  Inzamam-ul-Haq , also known as Inzamam, nicknamed Inzy, is a former Pakistan international cricketer who was national captain between 2003 and 2007. He is a right-handed batsman who has been regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of his era...
  
  
• Shahid Afridi
  Shahid Afridi
  Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi , popularly known as Shahid Afridi , is a Pakistani cricketer. Between 1996 and 2011, Afridi played 27 Tests, 325 One Day Internationals, and 43 Twenty20 Internationals for the Pakistani national team...
  
  
• Ijaz Ahmed
  Ijaz Ahmed
  Ijaz Ahmed was a Pakistani cricketer who played 60 Tests and 250 One Day Internationals for Pakistan over a period from 1986 to 2001...
  
  
• Salim Malik
• Mohammad Hussain
  Mohammad Hussain
  Mohammad Hussain is a Pakistani cricketer who played in 2 Tests and 14 ODIs from 1996 to 1998....
  
  
• Aaqib Javed
  Aaqib Javed
  Aaqib Javed is a Pakistani cricketer and coach. He was a right-handed medium-fast pace bowler with the ability to swing the ball both ways. He played 22 Tests and 163 One Day Internationals for Pakistan between 1988 and 1998.He was educated at Islamia College Lahore.Aaqib's best performances in...
  
  
• Saqlain Mushtaq
  Saqlain Mushtaq
  Saqlain Mushtaq is a Pakistani cricketer, regarded as one of the finest off spin bowlers of all time.He is best known for pioneering the "doosra", which he employed to great effect during his career...
  
  
• Moin Khan
  Moin Khan
  Mohammad Moin Khan , popularly known as Moin Khan , is a former Pakistani cricketer, primarily a wicketkeeper-batsman, who remained a member of the Pakistani national cricket team from 1990 to 2004. He has also captained the Pakistani side. He made his international debut against the West Indies at...
  
   (wicket-keeper)
• Hasan Raza
  Hasan Raza
  Hasan Raza is a Pakistani cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler. He initially was subject to something of a claim for an international cricketing record, as his debut performance was believed to have taken place at the age of 14 years and 227 days, then a...
  
  
• Abdul Razzaq
• Azhar Mahmood
  Azhar Mahmood
  Azhar Mahmood Sagar is a Pakistani cricketer, . Originally his father objected to his interest in cricket, but later started to appreciate it seeing his accomplishments. As a teenager, Azhar was mentored by Irfan Bhatti who played a One Day International for Pakistan in the early 90’s...
  
  
• Mohammad Wasim
  Mohammad Wasim
  Mohammad Wasim is a Pakistani cricketer who played in 18 Tests and 25 ODIs from 1996 to 2000.-Career:...
  
  

Pakistan's line-up were missing regular pace bowlers Wasim Akram

Wasim Akram

Wasim Akram is a former Pakistani left arm fast bowler and left-handed batsman in cricketer and model. who represented the Pakistan national cricket team in Test cricket and One Day International matches....

, Waqar Younis

Waqar Younis

Waqar Younis Maitla is a former Pakistani right arm fast bowler in cricket and widely regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time...

 and spin bowler Mushtaq Ahmed

Mushtaq Ahmed

Mushtaq Ahmed is a retired Pakistani cricketer who specialised as a leg spin bowler. He was known for his hard-to-pick googly. He memorably trapped Graeme Hick in front with one during the 1992 World Cup final. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1997...

, who were playing county cricket

County cricket

County cricket is the highest level of domestic cricket in England and Wales. For the 2010 season, see 2010 English cricket season.-First-class counties:...

 in England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

.

Sri Lanka

• Arjuna Ranatunga
  Arjuna Ranatunga
  Arjuna Ranatunga is a retired Sri Lankan cricketer and politician. He was the captain of Sri Lankan cricket team, and led them to an unbeaten title-winning campaign at the 1996 Cricket World Cup...
  
   (captain)
• Aravinda de Silva
  Aravinda de Silva
  Pinnaduwage Aravinda de Silva is a former Sri Lankan cricketer, who is considered one of the finest batsmen produced by the country.He is also regarded as one of the most elegant batsman in his generation, and to date is the only player to make a hundred and take 3 or more wickets in a world cup...
  
   (vice-captain)
• Roshan Mahanama
  Roshan Mahanama
  Roshan Siriwardene Mahanama is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and currently an ICC match referee.Although he averaged less than 30 at Test cricket, he did score four centuries, including a top score of 225 for the Sri Lankan cricket team against India at Colombo, where he shared a then world record...
  
  
• Hashan Tillakaratne
  Hashan Tillakaratne
  Hashan Prasantha Tillakaratne is a Sri Lankan cricketer and a politician.-Cricket career:As a schoolboy in 1986, he was selected to play against England B at Galle, scoring a century to save the match. He played in his first One Day International in November 1986, and emerged into the Sri Lankan...
  
  
• Sanath Jayasuriya
  Sanath Jayasuriya
  Sanath Teran Jayasuriya is a former Sri Lankan cricketer. An all-rounder, he played for the Sri Lankan cricket team from 1989 to 2011...
  
  
• Romesh Kaluwitharana
  Romesh Kaluwitharana
  Romesh Shantha Kaluwitharana is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who played in 49 Test and 189 ODIs from 1990 to 2004...
  
   (wicket-keeper)
• Muttiah Muralitharan
  Muttiah Muralitharan
  Muttiah Muralitharan , often referred to as Murali, is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who was rated the greatest Test match bowler ever by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 2002...
  
  
• Ruwan Kalpage
  Ruwan Kalpage
  Ruwan Kalpage is a former Sri Lankan cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler....
  
  
• Marvan Atapattu
  Marvan Atapattu
  Marvan Samson Atapattu is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and former Sri Lankan captain. Towards the end of his career he joined the Indian Cricket League and captained the Delhi Giants...
  
  
• Chaminda Vaas
  Chaminda Vaas
  Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas , usually known as Chaminda Vaas, is a Sri Lankan cricketer is regarded as the best fast bowler to have come out of the country - he has been described as the 'most penetrative and successful new-ball bowler Sri Lanka have had'...
  
  
• Kumar Dharmasena
  Kumar Dharmasena
  Kumar Dharmasena is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and current Umpire. He was a member of World Cup Winning Cricket Team 1996 for Sri Lanka. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler...
  
  
• Sajeewa de Silva
  Sajeewa de Silva
  Karunakalage Sajeewa Chanaka de Silva is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He played Test cricket for Sri Lanka in the late 1990s as a left arm fast bowler....
  
  
• Upul Chandana
  Upul Chandana
  Umagiliya Durage Upul Chandana is a former Sri Lankan cricketer. He was more specifically a leg spin bowler and was also an outstanding fielder....
  
  
• Dulip Liyanage
  Dulip Liyanage
  Dulip Kapila Liyanage is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler....
  
  

The Sri Lankan team had minor changes from the team that won the 1996 World Cup under the leadership of Arjuna Ranatunga.

Matches

Using the round robin format, each team played the others once. New Zealand defeated Pakistan in the tournament opener, but proceeded to lose its other matches. Similarly, India succeeded in its opening match against New Zealand, but suffered defeats to Sri Lanka and Pakistan. After its loss to New Zealand, Pakistan's victories against Sri Lanka and India enabled it to qualify for the finals. Sri Lanka lost a high-scoring match to Pakistan, but defeated New Zealand and India to reach the finals.

Team	P	W	L	T	NR	NRR	Points
	3	2	1	0	0	+0.478	4
	3	2	1	0	0	-0.287	4
	3	1	2	0	0	-0.331	2
	3	1	2	0	0	-0.452	2

Finals

Pakistan and Sri Lanka squared-off in a best-of-three final series. The first final was in Chandigarh, and the second final (and if necessary, the third) was held at the Eden Gardens

Eden Gardens

Eden Gardens is a cricket ground in Kolkata , India. It is the home of the Bengal cricket team and the Indian Premier League's Kolkata Knight Riders, as well as being a Test and One Day International ground. It is the largest cricket stadium in India by seating capacity...

 in Calcutta (now Kolkata). However, Sri Lanka defeated in both the first and second finals, winning the tournament without the need for a third final to be played.

Records and awards

The player of the touranment award was bagged by Sri Lankan all-arounder Sanath Jayasuriya, who scored the most runs in the tournament, 306, with one century and two fifties, and took 5 wickets to add. Pakistan's Saqlain Mushtaq

Saqlain Mushtaq

Saqlain Mushtaq is a Pakistani cricketer, regarded as one of the finest off spin bowlers of all time.He is best known for pioneering the "doosra", which he employed to great effect during his career...

 took the most wickets in the tournament, bagging 14. Pakistani batsman Saeed Anwar's innings of 194 against India in Chennai became the record for the highest runs in a single innings by any batsman in international cricket. The record stood until 2010, when India's Sachin Tendulkar became the first batsman in history to score a 200 not out against South Africa in Gwalior.