what is the reason behind the match played in 1996 world cup semifinal match india concedded to srilanka in?

Answer 1

Jayasuriya made the difference...

Answer 2

Kalu Witherana and Jayasuriya went cheaply in that match but then it was Arvinda De Silva who steadied the ship for Lankans and when India started the run chase they were going along well at one stage but then wickets started falling like nine pins and they were 120-8 still not half way down when the Calcutta crowd read the writing on the wall and started to burn first the paper and then wood benches and despite every effort from the management and match referee Clive Lloyd they were uncontrollable so the match referee awarded the match to Sri Lanka who would have won anyway.

Answer 3

Before this match Ind beat Pak in quarterfinal but that match was ful of tense in batting Jadeja scored 24 runs in Waqar Younis over & while at batting Anwar & V. Prasad faught to each other.
Pakis get unfavorable response from there country & that was the reason most player fly away to other country's instead of PAK.
The Final match of Wills world cup was to be played at Karachi with view of pre. match. It may be very risky to play on their soil.
And the match between SL & IND one stage Ind were 98/0 where Sachin's score was 62 after some time Ind were 120/8 due to public inturupption match was not completed and SL were declared Winner.

Answer 4

India were down and out in that game and would have lost, if the match had been continued. The crowd at Kolkata got wild and did not let the match to resume. Though everyone tried their best to cool the crowd icluding Clive lloyd, who was the match refree. However, the crowd did not budge and hence Clive Lloyd decided and declared Sri lanka as the winner.

Answer 5

India once hits very hard and the next moment it blocks.