Sameer Cup 1996-97

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Sameer Cup
Cricket format	One Day International
Tournament format(s)	Round robin and Final
Host	Kenya
Champions	South Africa
Participants	Kenya Pakistan South Africa Sri Lanka
Matches played	September 28 – October 6, 1996
Player of the series	Allan Donald
Most runs	Gary Kirsten (227)
Most wickets	Allan Donald (14)

The Kenya Cricket Association Centenary Tournament (also known as the Sameer Cup) was a four team ODI cricket tournament held in Kenya during the 1996-97 season.

Contents 1 Squads 2 Schedule 3 Points table 4 Final 5 External links

[edit] Squads

Kenya	Pakistan	South Africa	Sri Lanka
Maurice Odumbe (c) Rajab Ali Dipak Chudasama Sandeep Gupta Aasif Karim Hitesh Modi Thomas Odoyo Tito Odumbe Lameck Onyango Kennedy Otieno (wk) Anthony Suji Martin Suji Steve Tikolo	Saeed Anwar (c) Azhar Mahmood Ijaz Ahmed Moin Khan (wk) Rameez Raja Saeed Azad Saleem Elahi Saleem Malik Saqlain Mushtaq Shahid Afridi Shahid Nazir Waqar Younis Wasim Akram	Hansie Cronje (c) Derek Crookes Daryll Cullinan Fanie de Villiers Allan Donald Herschelle Gibbs Andrew Hudson Gary Kirsten Brian McMillan Craig Matthews Jonty Rhodes Dave Richardson (wk) Pat Symcox	Arjuna Ranatunga (c) Upul Chandana Aravinda de Silva Sajeewa de Silva Kumar Dharmasena Asanka Gurusinha Sanath Jayasuriya Romesh Kaluwitharana (wk) Roshan Mahanama Muttiah Muralitharan Hashan Tillakaratne Chaminda Vaas

[edit] Schedule Date Match Venue September/October 96 28 Sep 1st ODI Gymkhana, Nairobi 29 2nd ODI Gymkhana, Nairobi 01 Oct 3rd ODI Nairobi 02 4st ODI Nairobi 03 5th ODI Gymkhana, Nairobi 04 6th ODI Gymkhana, Nairobi 06 Final Gymkhana, Nairobi

[edit] Points table Place Team Played Won Lost Points NetRR 1  South Africa 3 2 1 4 1.518 2  Pakistan 3 2 1 4 0.498 3  Sri Lanka 3 2 1 4 0.496 4  Kenya 3 0 3 0 -2.396

[edit] Final

The final took place between South Africa and Pakistan at the Gymkhana Club Ground in Nairobi. Pakistan had qualified for the final by edging past Sri Lanka on net run rate, largely due to their first innings effort of 9 for 371 when the two teams met.

Saeed Anwar won the toss for Pakistan and elected to bat first. They were all out of 203 in the 46th over with Donald and Crookes taking 3 wickets each. Ijaz Ahmed top scored for Pakistan with 47. In reply the South Africans started off well, putting on 77 for the 1st wicket before Shahid Afridi took a couple of quick wickets. Gary Kirsten finished unbeaten on 118 off just 127 as his side reached their target in the 39th over. Kirsten was named as the Man of the Match.

[edit] External links

• Cricket Archive

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