1998 Coca-Cola Triangular Series

1998 Coca Cola Triangular Series
Date	14–31 May 1998
Location	India
Result	Won by India
Player of the series	Steve Tikolo
Teams India Bangladesh Kenya Captains Mohammad Azharuddin Akram Khan Aasif Karim Most runs Ajay Jadeja (189) Aminul Islam (114) Ravi Shah (213) Most wickets Venkatesh Prasad (8) Ajit Agarkar (8) Khaled Mahmud (7) Mohammad Rafique (7) Steve Tikolo (6)

The Coca-Cola Triangular Series was the name of the One Day International cricket tournament in India held in 1998. It was a tri-nation series between Kenya, India and Bangladesh.

India and Kenya reached the finals through a round robin league format. India beat Kenya in the Finals to clinch the trophy.

Squads

India

• Mohammad Azharuddin (captain)
• Rahul Dravid
• Sachin Tendulkar
• Sourav Ganguly
• Ajay Jadeja
• Robin Singh
• Debasis Mohanty
• Anil Kumble
• Ajit Agarkar
• Venkatesh Prasad
• Nayan Mongia (wicket keeper)
• Rahul Sanghvi
• Hrishikesh Kanitkar
• Paras Mhambrey
• Nikhil Chopra
• Harbhajan Singh
• Gagan Khoda
• Navjot Singh Sidhu
• Jatin Paranjpe
• VVS Laxman
• Nilesh Kulkarni
• Saba Karim (wicket keeper)
• MSK Prasad (wicket keeper)

Bangladesh

• Akram Khan remaining matches (captain)
• Khaled Mahmud
• Mohammad Rafique
• Athar Ali Khan
• Enamul Haque
• Hasibul Hossain
• Morshed Ali Khan
• Naimur Rahman
• Anisur Rahman
• Khaled Mashud (wicket keeper)
• Aminul Islam only for 1st match(captain)
• Minhajul Abedin
• Mehrab Hossain
• Sanwar Hossain

Kenya

• Aasif Karim (captain)
• Steve Tikolo
• Mohammad Sheikh
• Maurice Odumbe
• Martin Suji
• Joseph Angara
• Thomas Odoyo
• Ravi Shah
• Hitesh Modi
• Lameck Onyango
• Kennedy Otieno (wicket keeper)
• Dipak Chudasama
• Tony Suji
• Alpesh Vadher

Group stage points table

India and Kenya advanced to the Finals on the basis of points.

Team	P	W	L	T	NR	NRR	Points
India	4	3	1	0	0	+0.265	6
Kenya	4	2	2	0	0	+0.362	4
Bangladesh	4	1	3	0	0	−0.662	2

Match results

1st match

13 May (Scorecard)

Bangladesh 184/9 (50 overs)	v	India 185/5 (45.2 overs)
Aminul Islam 70 (126) Ajit Agarkar 3/41 (8 overs)		Ajay Jadeja 73 (101) Athar Ali Khan 2/33 (10 overs)

India won by 5 wickets Sector 16 Stadium, Chandigarh Umpires: Ivaturi Shivram & KN Raghavan Player of the match: Ajay Jadeja (India)

• India won the toss and elected to field

2nd match

16 May (Scorecard)

Kenya 236 (49 overs)	v	Bangladesh 237/4 (48 overs)
Ravi Shah 52 (64) Mohammed Rafique 3/56 (10 overs)		Mohammed Rafique 77 (87) Mohammad Sheikh 2/46 (10 overs)

Bangladesh won by 6 wickets Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad, India Umpires: CR Mohite & SK Sharma Player of the match: Mohammed Rafique (Bangladesh)

• Kenya won the toss and elected to bat
• Bangladesh's first ever ODI win

3rd match

19 May (Scorecard)

Kenya 223/9 (50 overs)	v	India 224/6 (47 overs)
Steve Tikolo 77 (92) Robin Singh 2/24 (8 overs)		Gagan Khoda 89 (129) Mohammad Sheikh 2/41 (7 overs)

India won by 4 wickets M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, India Umpires: Aloke Bhattacharjee & Devendra Sharma Player of the match: Gagan Khoda (India)

• India won the toss and elected to field

4th match

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6th match

28 May (Scorecard)

Kenya 265/5 (50 overs)	v	India 196 (47.1 overs)
Maurice Odumbe 83 (91) Anil Kumble 2/27 (8 overs)		Rahul Dravid 33 (53) Maurice Odumbe 3/14 (4.1 overs)

Kenya won by 69 runs Roop Singh Stadium, Gwalior Umpires: Subrata Banerjee & Rajan Seth Player of the match: Maurice Odumbe (Kenya)

• Kenya won the toss and elected to bat
• Nikhil Chopra & Jatin Paranjpe made their ODI debuts

Final

31 May (Scorecard)

Kenya 196 (46.3 overs)	v	India 197/1 (35 overs)
Hitesh Modi 71 (93) Venkatesh Prasad 4/23 (10 overs)		Sachin Tendulkar 100 (103) Joseph Angara 1/37 (6 overs)

India won by 9 wickets (with 90 balls remaining) Eden Gardens, Calcutta Umpires: AV Jayaprakash & K Parthasarathy Player of the match: Sachin Tendulkar (India)

• Kenya won the toss and elected to bat