Kenya Batted well but they Were Still defeated by Sri Lanka in ICC CWC 1999

In the 27th match of the ICC cricket world cup, Sri Lanka was against the Kenya team. This game was played on County Ground, Southampton, England on 30th May, 1999.

Both teams were playing very good cricket, so we can expect to see a great game between these two nations.

Kenya won the toss and opts to bowl first and this means Sri Lanka will bat first and set target for Kenya to chase later in this game.

This is how Kenya team and 11 was looking like in this match: Steve Tikolo, Thomas Odoyo, Kennedy Otieno (wk), Ravi Shah, Jimmy Kamande, Martin Suji, Dipak Chudasama, Aasif Karim (c), Maurice Odumbe, Alpesh Vadher, Joseph Angara

And Sri Lanka team and 11 was looking like this in this match: Marvan Atapattu, Mahela Jayawardene, Sanath Jayasuriya, Upul Chandana, Chaminda Vaas, Muttiah Muralitharan, Arjuna Ranatunga (c), Aravinda de Silva, Roshan Mahanama, Romesh Kaluwitharana (wk), Pramodya Wickramasinghe

Sri Lanka started well and very quickly and got to mark of 50 runs without losing any wicket. Sri Lanka posted 225 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets and M Atapattu top scored for them as he made 52 runs in 67 balls with 3 4’s and strike rate of 78 runs in 100 balls and Skipper A ranatunga also scored 50 runs in 61 balls with 4 4’s and strike rate of 82 runs in 100 balls. M Jayawardena also made contribution of 45 runs in only 34 balls with 7 4’s and strike rate of 137 runs in 100 balls.

Kenya was required to chase 226 runs to win this game in 50 over’s.

Kenya started very poorly and lost its first 5 wickets at the team score of only 52 runs in 18.3 over’s.

But M Odumber who scored 83 runs in 95 balls with 7 4’s and A vadher who made 73 runs in 98 balls with 6 4’s kept keny ain hunt of winning but they only managed to score 230 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 50 over’s.

Sri lanka won the game by 45 runs and M odumbe was the Man of the match for his all round performance.

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