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.^[1] 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 (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
• 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[2]
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

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

References