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In that group stage match Sri Lanka won by 9 wickets. Including that they also met each other twice in 2009 ICC World Twenty20, once in group stage and another in semi final. Both match were won by Sri Lanka. they won by 15 runs in the group stage and in the semi-final they eliminated West Indies from the semi-final with a dominating 57 runs win.
Sri Lanka batted first and scored 244 runs for five wickets in 50 overs. India had played only two overs before the match was stopped by the rain. [1] On 30 September, the Sri Lankan team again batted first and scored 222 runs for seven wickets. The match was abandoned as India reached 38 runs in 8.4 overs.
Prior to this match, India and Sri Lanka had met each other seven times in World Cup history with Sri Lanka ahead with four wins and two defeats and one game ending in a no-result. In One Day Internationals, India led Sri Lanka with 75 victories against 52 victories for Sri Lanka, while 11 matches had ended with no result. [8]
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 Asia Cup 2023 final was held at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 17 September 2023. It has a capacity of 35,000. Sri Lanka Cricket through a press release informed that all the tickets were sold out and advised the spectators not to rush in front of ticket counters for new tickets.
The tournament was played to celebrate Sri Lanka's 70th year of independence; the title derives from the Sinhalese නිදහස් nidahas, meaning "freedom." [4] Sri Lanka Cricket confirmed that the matches would be played as Twenty20 International fixtures. [5]
The encounter is considered to be one of the oldest big matches in Sri Lanka as it dates back to 1933. The first match in the sequence was played in 1933 under captain, Eugine Silva of St. Sebastian's College and Duncan Fernando of Prince of Wales College. [3] The inaugural match however ended in a low scoring draw.
The Super 12s consisted of 30 matches between the four teams from Round 1 and the top eight ranked T20I teams. Originally, if Sri Lanka or Bangladesh qualified from their first round groups, they would have retained their respective seedings of A1 or B1 for the Super 12s. [62]