Talk:1996 Cricket World Cup

Logo is not right
The absurd logo being used is not right, the correct logo was a straight drive, and the bat left a trail of 12 rainbow coloured bats. Each colour represented the 12 countries that were playing. A very bad image can be found here http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/sport/sport_images/bbc_progs/bbccricketworldcup1996-01.jpg —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.169.94.134 (talk) 21:49, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

question re: Aussies forfeiting Sri Lanka game...
" leading most analyst of the game to believe that Australia did not want to play in Sri Lanka in fear of losing on the slow pitches of Sri Lanka which they were not accustomed to playing on and hence risk being eliminated in the opening round of the tournament. "

Just wanted to get a test reading from people if this is indeed the accepted view (ie. is this what most cricket analysts believe?)


 * Its complete crap. There were death threats and a fake bomb sent to australian players. The australian cricket board asked the match be moved to India/Pakistan but when the ICC refused they forfeited the match. They never tried to get the match to count as a no-result/tie, so any accusation that they wanted to avoid playing because they could loose was rediculous because they knew it would be a loss.--155.144.251.120 04:12, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Being an Aussie fan (which no doubt has no small part in my thoughts on this), I was under the impression that...

(a) there were some very real security concerns (and if memory serves there were direct threats made against the Australian Cricket Team)

(b) more crucially, the manner in which the Sri Lankan team revolutionised the one-day game (ie the "explosive start" versus the accepted canon of "slow and steady in the first 15 overs") was really a revelation of the 1996 World Cup. Before this tournament, the Sri Lankans, while respected weren't exactly feared (my apologies to any Sri Lankan fans who always knew that their victory was coming :-). ) Indeed, I remember a feeling of confidence leading into this tournament, and feeling a pang of regret that we were forfeiting this game (as I felt confident of victory in this match).

I'm not saying that I'm right regarding this, but just wanted to question if the above statement is truly what most people believe (if so, I'm happy to be proved wrong)

Cheers,

--Gregrosman 06:46, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Looking back 10 years after this event as a Sri Lankan, I was finishing up my school and looking for work, I had to tape and see the match. It was one of the happiest moments in any Sri Lankan cricket fan’s life.

A giant step in the history book of this small nation without much cricket tradition (financed with lot of money). The two who supposed to have revolutionized the game got out early, then the seasoned and veteran players brought the victory to Sri Lanka.

Regarding the threats made against Australians in Sri Lanka, the rebels had never done any atrocities against a foreigner in Sri Lanka and it was not their intentions to make foreign government angry against them. One could consider the threats if credible were purely empty.

The 1996 World Cup had been preceded by a tour of Australia by Sri Lanka, in which there were a number of unfortunate events, including an accusation by the umpires of ball tampering against the Sri Lankan team during the Perth test and the no-balling by umpire Darrell Hair for throwing of Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan. There were also some further dubious umpiring decisions that favoured Australia during the subsequent one-day series. Relations between the Australian and Sri Lankan teams were very poor by the end of the tour.

Although Sri Lanka lost the test series and the finals of the one-day series, there were many who felt that they had not had the best luck during the tour, which finished on 29 January 1996. The LTTE terrorist bombing in Colombo occurred on 31 January 1996. The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs then issued a travel advisory warning, recommending against non-essential travel to Sri Lanka. In early February 1996, reports emerged that an Australian players had received death threats and one player allegedly received a hoax bomb. Due to the heightened tensions, the Australian Cricket Board queried whether to proceed with the match against Sri Lanka. The ACB initially requested that the match be moved to a neutral ground in India or Pakistan. Once this proposal was rejected, the ACB chose to forfeit the match.

Australia went to the 1996 World Cup as the favourite. Sri Lanka were something of an outsider. The World Cup match between Australia and Sri Lanka had been scheduled to take place in Colombo on 17 February 1996. Under the format of the 1996 World Cup, the best eight teams qualified for the quarter-finals. Irrespective of the result against Sri Lanka, there was little prospect of Australia being eliminated prior to the quarter-finals, unless the Australian team also lost to either Zimbabwe or Kenya.

The quote at the start of this article is therefore incorrect and I believe represents a partisan view of the circumstances. Sri Lanka and Australia, in that order, were the two best teams at the 1996 World Cup. Sri Lanka deservedly won the final, which understandably was something of a grudge match. The article should accurately reflect this, and properly credit Sri Lanka for defeating a tough opponent, without disparaging that opponent.

--Joshua Saunders 02.30, 27 October 2006 (AEST)

Player of the Series
No 'Man of the Series' was awarded in1975, 1979, 1983 and 1987. The first was awarded in 1993. The award was changed to 'Player of the Tournament' in 1999 and then to 'Player of the Series' in 2003 - Ctbolt 03:24, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
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Wrong name printed in Finals match
The batsman’s name in the finals match is printed as Nayan Mongia, its actually Aravinda DeSilva who scored a century in the finals. Mongia was a indian player, not Srilankan! Avinash.umb (talk) 23:38, 6 March 2022 (UTC)