Deep Backward Point

The side batting first posted a decent score, and chasing in a World Cup final is always hard. At the innings break, the experts agreed that if the explosive opening pair got a good start, they had a chance.

Then, disaster struck. The celebrated opening pair was lost in a blink of an eye and a nation went into panic. Until they remembered they had one of the deepest batting line-ups in the world. Two great partnerships later, they had won the World Cup in style. Sri Lanka had won the World Cup.

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And yesterday, 15 years later, they lost it the same way.