: Watch: On this day, Sri Lanka beat Australia to win the 1996 World Cup #IndiaNEWS The World Cup final, played between Sri Lanka and Australia in Lahore on March 17 in 1996 was an unlikely summit clash.

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Watch: On this day, Sri Lanka beat Australia to win the 1996 World Cup #IndiaNEWS
The World Cup final, played between Sri Lanka and Australia in Lahore on March 17 in 1996 was an unlikely summit clash. Australia were former champions having won in 1987 while Sri Lanka had never gotten past the group stages of the competition before. But Sri Lanka, led by Arjuna Ranatunga, were a side that had a new approach to the game. With players like Sanath Jayasuriya, Romesh Kaluwitharana, Chaminda Vaas and Muttiah Muralitharan, it was a formidable unit. Australia and West Indies had earlier refused to play in Sri Lanka over security concerns, which had helped them finish unbeaten on the group stages. In the knock-out stages, the eventual champions first beat England in the quarter-final and then reached the final after the semi-final against India was disrupted by unruly crowds.But in the final, it was pure skill and mentality that won them their first world title, with Aravinda de Silva doing the star turn with an all-round show. Australia were expected to have the edge given their experience and their opponent’s lack of it. At the Gaddafi Stadium, Sri Lanka won the toss and opt to bowl. The plan almost backfired with the quicks going for runs but for de Silva and...Read more

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