10 forgettable moments that no Indian cricket fan will want to relive

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Sanath Jayasuriya 189; Indian team 54

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How often have you seen a batsman outscoring a team? There are not a lot of instances of this. The Indian team was involved in one such match - easily one of the matches Indian fans would like to erase from the history.

In the final of the 2000 Coco-Cola Champions Trophy at Sharjah, Sanath Jayasuriya completely destroyed the Indian bowling attack as he plundered 189 runs all by himself and took his team to 299/5 in 50 overs.

He faced 161 balls in his innings and scored 21 fours and four sixes and was flirting around with the 200-run mark. The left-hander could have easily breached the mark in ODIs 10 years before it was actually breached by India's Sachin Tendulkar in 2010 as when he got out to Sourav Ganguly, he needed 11 more runs for the landmark with 12 balls to go in the innings.

Chasing 300, the Sourav Ganguly-led side was never in contention as pacer Chaminda Vaas and Muttiah Muralitharan ran through the Indian line-up and dismissed them for just 54 runs, giving their team a 245-run win.

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