In the 25th match of the ICC cricket world cup, England was against the Indian team. This game was played on Edgbaston, Birmingham, England on 29th May, 1999. Both teams were playing very good cricket, so we can expect to see a great game.
England won the toss and opts to bowl first, so India will bat first and set Target for England to chase in the later part of the game.
England team and 11 were looking like this in this Match: Andrew Flintoff, Darren Gough, Neil Fairbrother, Angus Fraser, Nasser Hussain, Alec Stewart (c & wk), Graeme Hick, Graham Thorpe, Alan Mullally, Mark Ealham, Adam Hollioake
And Indian team and 11 were looking like this in this match: Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, Anil Kumble, Venkatesh Prasad, Mohammad Azharuddin (c), Javagal Srinath, Ajay Jadeja, Nayan Mongia (wk), Debasis Mohanty, Sadagoppan Ramesh
India was off to a good cautious start and they were at no loss of wickets in the first 10 overs of the game. But S Ramesh out in the 12.5 over’s on the team score of 49 runs and there after India lost Saurav Ganguly on the team score of 93 runs in 21.2 over’s. But after that Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Moh. Azhar Ud din and Ajay Jadeja batted well and India post the total of 232 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets. And Rahul Dravid top scored for India as he made 53 runs in 82 balls with 6 4’s and strike rate of 65 runs in 100 balls.
England was required to play and score 233 runs in 50 over have to win this game.
England was off to a bad start and lost their 2 wickets on team score of 13 runs in 3.2 over’s. And England kept losing wickets at regular intervals in the game and were never looking settled and were eventually bowled out for only 168 runs In 45.2 over’s with G Thorpe top scored for them by making 36 runs in 57 balls.
India won the game by 63 runs and Saurav Ganguly was the man of the Match for his all round performance .
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