Welcome to Pakistan vs India 3rd ODI Highlights – Tour of Pakistan in 1997, three-match ODI series. The third and final one-day international cricket match between Pakistan and India was played at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on 2 October 1997.
Match review:
Azhar Mahmood and Aaqib Javed combined for 5 wickets before Ijaz Ahmed’s whirlwind career-best unbeaten 139 and Shahid Afridi’s brilliant 23-ball 47 guided Pakistan to a comfortable nine-wicket win over India and clinch the three-match series 2-1 in the one-sided, deciding third and final ODI.
Embedded YouTube video by Cricket Reels 2.0
Match statistics:
- Ijaz Ahmed’s unbeaten 139 was the second-highest score for Pakistan in a one-day international and also the second-highest score by a Pakistani batsman against India in an ODI after Saeed Anwar’s record 194 in Chennai earlier in the Pepsi Independence Cup this year.
- Ijaz Ahmed became the seventh Pakistani batsman to score a century against India in an ODI.
- Ijaz Ahmed became the fifth Pakistani batsman to score six centuries in ODIs.
- Ijaz Ahmed scored Pakistan’s third century off 68 balls in a one-day international and the fifth fastest of any batsman in ODIs.
- 9: Ijaz Ahmed hit the second most sixes in a Pakistan innings in a one-day international and the most sixes by Pakistan against India in an ODI, surpassing the previous record of 5 sixes jointly hit by Javed Miandad in Lahore in 1982 and Saeed Anwar in Chennai earlier this year.
Match details:
India scored 216 in 49.2 overs with top scorer Ajay Jadeja scoring 76 off 109 balls including 6 fours.
Rajesh Chauhan made 32 runs including 2 sixes, Sourav Ganguly hit 26 off 36 balls including 3 fours.
Saba Karim hit 20 off 47 balls without a boundary and Robin Singh hit 17 off 22 balls containing 2 fours.
Pakistan’s best bowler Azhar Mahmood got 3 wickets for 34 runs in 9 overs, Waqar Younis and Aaqib Javed took 2 wickets each and one for Mohammed Hussain – Saqlain Mushtaq.
Pakistan chased down a target of 217, finishing at 219 in 1 in 26.2 overs – Pakistan’s overs were reduced from 50 to 49 due to one over being penalized for slow over speed – top scorer Ijaz Ahmed scored a career-best unbeaten 139 off 84 balls – this was his sixth ODI hundred and his first century against India in ODIs.
Shahid Afridi scored an unbeaten 47 off 23 balls including 5 fours and 3 sixes at a strike rate of 204.34 while Mohammad Wasim scored an unbeaten 27 off 52 balls containing 3 fours.
India’s best bowler Nilesh Kulkarni took 1 wicket for 57 runs in 8 overs.
Ijaz Ahmed was named Man of the Match for his career-best match win, an unbeaten 139-run knock off 84 balls, including 10 fours and 9 sixes, at a strike rate of 165.47.