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When Indians and Pakistanis played together to support Sri Lanka's World Cup cause
Thirty years ago, a joint India-Pakistan XI featuring Sachin Tendulkar, Waqar Younis, Wasim Akram and Anil Kumble played a solidarity match against Sri Lanka ahead of the 1996 World Cup
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When Sachin Tendulkar and Saeed Anwar opened against Murali and Vaas
An excerpt from Mike Marqusee's landmark book War Minus the Shooting looks at an unusual match played in Colombo ahead of the 1996 World Cup
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RetroReport - Shane Warne conjures win out of nowhere as Australia sneak into World Cup final
Needing 43 from 52 balls with eight wickets in hand, West Indies suffered one of ODI cricket's most dramatic collapses
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Javed Miandad and MS Dhoni: a tale of two ageing lions
Watching the 1996 India-Pakistan World Cup semi-final brought home the similarities between the two master ODI chasers
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Retroreport - Sidhu and Prasad down Pakistan to carry India into the World Cup semi-final
An epic clash between two of world cricket's bitterest rivals gave new life to the World Cup and knocked out the defending champions
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Ajay Jadeja plunders 22 runs in one Waqar Younis over
Ajay Jadeja entered a different zone late in the first half of the World Cup quarter-final, and successive Waqar overs went for 18 and 22 as India spurted to 287
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Which batsman faced Allan Donald without a helmet and got hit on the head by a bouncer?
How much do you know about the sixth World Cup?
Sri Lanka
Cricket
Aravinda takes it up a notch
On the biggest stage of them all, after Sri Lanka lost their openers early, de Silva stood head and shoulders above the competition and his team-mates
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'My dream was to qualify the Dutch team for the World Cup'
Nolan Clarke, the oldest man to play in a World Cup, remembers his journey from Barbados to Netherlands and then to the subcontinent in 1996
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'How the bloody hell did we win that?'
West Indies had the 1996 semi-final against Australia in the bag. Then they found a way to throw it away
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How the World Cup became a commercial hit
The relatively modest sums from the first three World Cups were overshadowed by the sale of TV rights in subsequent editions
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Working the World Cups
Behind the scenes at a global tournament mostly involves endless meetings, faxes, waiting around, and dealing with fans' and the media's outrage
Kenya
Cricket
Aasif Karim on Kenya's 1996 and 2003 World Cup campaigns: 'As soon as we got Lara, we were a different side'
The former Kenya captain recalls Kenya's shock win over West Indies in 1996 and his spell that had Australia quivering in 2003
Sri Lanka
Cricket
The messenger who couldn't deliver a message
Ravindra Pushpakumara, the 12th man in the 1996 final, was asked to pass on tons of advice to the batters in the middle. But he didn't
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Mad Max makes magic
Aravinda de Silva's masterclass in batting stunned India in the 1996 semi-final, before an Eden Gardens meltdown
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The pinch-hitting Cup
A shambolic opening ceremony, security-related boycotts, and a semi-final won by default
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The Prasad-Sohail showdown
Venkatesh Prasad dismisses Aamer Sohail as emotions run high in the India v Pakistan World Cup 1996 quarter-final
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South Africa learn the Lara lesson
A Brian Lara special helped West Indies see off South Africa in the quarter-final of the 1996 World Cup
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Kenya snap up Lara
How a discordant West Indies team fell prey to a group of amateur cricketers from Kenya in 1996
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De Silva delivers the trophy for Sri Lanka
Aravinda de Silva's all-round showing in the 1996 final, against Australia, helped Sri Lanka seal their maiden global title
World Cup
Which batsman faced Allan Donald without a helmet and got hit on the head by a bouncer?
How much do you know about the sixth World Cup?
Bangladesh
Cricket
Finally, Bangladesh get their trophy
Bangladesh won the ICC Trophy in 1997, but just only received a replica of the trophy, 16 years later
World Cup
One-day giants
Five one-day international sides that have left a lasting mark on the game
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Kenya upset Brian Lara and West Indies
West Indies were a shambles going into the 1996 World Cup, and the unknown amateurs of Kenya exploited that to the full in one of the game's biggest upsets
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World Cups in the subcontinent: back in the hood, nothing's the same
Fifteen years after the last World Cup in Asia, the tournament returns to the region, but where previously a shared culture provided some of the bonds, now money talks
