Welcome to the highlights of West Indies vs Sri Lanka Only ODI - 1997 Sri Lanka tour of West Indies - The one-off One-Day International cricket match between West Indies and Sri Lanka was played at Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad on June 06, 1997.
Match Overview:
A career-best 90 by Stuart Williams, Brian Lara's brilliant half-century and Roland Holder's quick-fire 41 before Laurie Williams and Dinanath Ramnarine's combined 5-wickets helped to West Indies comfortable 35-run victory over Sri Lanka, despite Sanath Jayasuriya's record-breaking five-wicket haul with a blazing 44 in the one-off ODI.
Match Stats:
- Sanath Jayasuriya became the first Sri Lankan bowler to take a five-wicket haul against West Indies in ODI cricket history.
- Sanath Jayasuriya's 5 for 58 was his second best bowling performance for Sri Lanka in one-day international and the best-bowling-figures by an West Indies bowler against Sri Lanka in ODIs, surpassing the previous record of 4 for 45 held by Ruwan Kalpage at Colombo (RPS) in 1993.
- Sanath Jayasuriya became the second Sri Lankan bowler to take two five-wicket hauls in ODIs after Ashantha de Mel's 2 five-fors.
In-Depth Match Highlights:
West Indies scored 283-7 in the allotted 49 overs with top scorer by Stuart Williams struck 90 off 107-balls - who fell ten-run short of his century.
Brian Lara cracked a 67 off 68-balls including 6-fours & 2-fours, Roland Holder blasted a unbeaten 41 off 30-balls included 7-fours & a six with strike rate of 136.66 and Carl Hooper scored 25 off 21-balls contained a boundary.
Sri Lanka best bowler by Sanath Jayasuriya claimed a 5-wicket haul for 58-runs in 10-overs, Aravinda de Silva and Sajeewa de Silva both took one-wickets.
Sri Lanka scored 248-8 in the allotted 49 overs with top scorer by Arjuna Ranatunga cracked a 53 off 78-balls including 6-fours & a six.
Kumar Dharmasena hit a unbeaten 51 off 55-balls including 5-fours, Dulip Liyanage cracked a 43 off 63-balls included 2-fours and Sanath Jayasuriya hammered a 44 off 28-balls contained 7-fours & a six with strike rate of 157.14.
West Indies best bowler by Laurie Williams picked up 3-wickets, Dinanath Ramnarine captured two-wickets, Curtly Ambrose, Courtney Walsh and Carl Hooper each took one-wickets.
Stuart Williams named Player of the match for his brilliant batting performance to scored a career-best 90 off facing 107-balls including 12-fours.
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