The 1998 Nidahas Trophy, known as the Singer Akai Nidahas Trophy for sponsorship reasons, was a One Day International cricket tournament staged in Sri Lanka between 19 June and 7 July 1998, to commemorate the 50 years of Sri Lanka's independence and Sri Lanka Cricket, known then as the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka, the governing body of cricket in Sri Lanka.
The competition involved Sri Lanka, India and New Zealand. Each team played every other team three times, and the two teams with most points progressed to the final. The event was marred by rain, with five of the nine qualifying matches abandoned. Sri Lanka won three matches while India won one in the group stage, before India won the final beating the former by 6 runs. Sri Lanka's Aravinda de Silva who scored 368 runs was named player of the series.
Squads Arjuna Ranatunga (c) Aravinda de Silva Romesh Kaluwitharana (wk) Marvan Atapattu Sanath Jayasuriya Mahela Jayawardene Roshan Mahanama Kumar Dharmasena Muttiah Muralitharan Pramodya Wickramasinghe Suresh Perera Avishka Gunawardene Niroshan Bandaratilleke Upul Chandana Mohammad Azharuddin (c) Ajay Jadeja (vc) Ajit Agarkar Sourav Ganguly Harbhajan Singh Hrishikesh Kanitkar Gagan Khoda Anil Kumble Debashish Mohanty Nayan Mongia (wk) Venkatesh Prasad Rahul Sanghvi Robin Singh Sachin Tendulkar Stephen Fleming (c) Craig Spearman Nathan Astle Bryan Young Craig McMillan Chris Harris Dion Nash Paul Wiseman Adam Parore (wk) Matt Horne Shayne O'Connor Daniel Vettori Chris Cairns Mark Priest
Round-robin Team 6 3 1 2 0 8 +0.623 6 1 1 4 0 6 +0.320 6 0 2 4 0 4 –1.429Source: ESPN Cricinfo
Matches
Final
References
External links Singer Akai Nidahas Trophy at ESPN Cricinfo