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Meril International Tournament 1998–99
Date	19–27 March 1999
Location	Bangladesh
Result	Winner Zimbabwe(beating  Kenya by 202 runs in the final)
Player of the series	Andy Flower
Teams  Bangladesh  Kenya  Zimbabwe Captains Aminul Islam Bulbul Aasif Karim Alistair Campbell Most runs Mehrab Hossain 197 Steve Tikolo 187 Andy Flower 257 Most wickets Hasibul Hossain 6 Thomas Odoyo 9 Grant Flower 7
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The Meril International Tournament was a One Day International cricket tournament played by Bangladesh, Kenya and Zimbabwe. The tournament was held in Bangladesh from 19 March to 27 March 1999. Zimbabwe defeated Kenya by 202 runs in the final to win the tournament.

Squads

Bangladesh	Kenya	Zimbabwe
Aminul Islam (c) Khaled Mashud (wk) Javed Omar Mehrab Hossain Al Sahariar Akram Khan Khaled Mahmud Mohammad Rafique Naimur Rahman Hasibul Hossain Manjural Islam Shahriar Hossain Shafiuddin Ahmed Enamul Haque Faruque Ahmed Niamur Rashid Jahangir Alam Mahbubur Rahman Aminul Islam, Jr.	Aasif Karim (c) Kennedy Otieno (wk) Maurice Odumbe Ravindu Shah Steve Tikolo Sandip Gupta Martin Suji Tony Suji Alpesh Vadher Hitesh Modi Thomas Odoyo Dipak Chudasama Joseph Angara Mohammad Sheikh	Alistair Campbell (c) Andy Flower (wk) Eddo Brandes Stuart Carlisle Grant Flower Murray Goodwin Adam Huckle Neil Johnson Pommie Mbangwa Henry Olonga Paul Strang Heath Streak Dirk Viljoen Guy Whittall Andy Whittall

Matches

Group stage

Pos	Team	P	W	L	NR	T	Points	NRR	For	Against
1	Zimbabwe	4	4	0	0	0	8	+1.649	1123 (199.3 overs)	796 (200.0 overs)
2	Kenya	4	2	2	0	0	4	-0.483	801 (193.5 overs)	923 (200.0 overs)
3	Bangladesh	4	0	4	0	0	0	-1.200	812 (200.0 overs)	1017 (193.2 overs)

Zimbabwe  272/6 (50 overs)	v	Kenya 139 (44 overs)
Andy Flower 83(99) Thomas Odoyo 2/26 (10 overs)		Ravindu Shah 28(38) Paul Strang 5/22 (10 overs)

• Points: Zimbabwe 2, Kenya 0.
• Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat.

Bangladesh  213 (50 overs)	v	Kenya 215/2 (43.5 overs)
Shahriar Hossain 95 (145) Mohammad Sheikh 3/36 (8 overs)		Steve Tikolo 106 (111) Khaled Mahmud 1/30 (10 overs)

• Points: Kenya 2, Bangladesh 0.
• Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat.
• Aminul Islam, Jr. made his ODI debut for Bangladesh.

Zimbabwe  310/6 (50 overs)	v	Bangladesh 184 (42.2 overs)
Andy Flower 79 (99) Shafiuddin Ahmed 2/38 (7 overs)		Mehrab Hossain 73 (109) Grant Flower 2/6 (3.2 overs)

• Points: Zimbabwe 2, Bangladesh 0.
• Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat.

Zimbabwe  280/6 (50 overs)	v	Kenya 216/8 (50 overs)
Neil Johnson 101 (120) Thomas Odoyo 2/40 (10 overs)		Steve Tikolo 78 (88) Grant Flower 4/32 (10 overs)

• Points: Zimbabwe 2, Kenya 0
• Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat.

Kenya  231 (48.3 overs)	v	Bangladesh 158 (41.4 overs)
Kennedy Otieno 120 (137) Hasibul Hossain 4/56 (10 overs)		Akram Khan 65 (109) Mohammad Sheikh 4/36 (10 overs)

• Points: Kenya 2, Bangladesh 0.
• Kenya won the toss and elected to bat.

Bangladesh  257/5 (50 overs)	v	Zimbabwe 261/7 (49.3 overs)
Mehrab Hossain 101 (116) Neil Johnson2/42 (10 overs)		Alistair Campbell 97 (114) Hasibul Hossain 2/66 (9 overs)

• Points: Zimbabwe 2, Bangladesh 0.
• Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat.
• Mahbubur Rahman and Niamur Rashid made their ODI debut for Bangladesh.
• Mehrab Hossain became the first Bangladeshi to score a century in ODI.

Final

Zimbabwe  325/6 (50 overs)	v	Kenya 123 (36.5 overs)
Grant Flower 140 (125) Martin Suji 2/31 (10 overs)		Thomas Odoyo 32 (55) Andy Whittall 3/29 (8.5 overs)

• Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat.

References

1. "Fixtures". Cricinfo.
2. Bangladeshi Squad
3. Kenyan Squad
4. Zimbabwean Squad

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