As retrospectives go, this is not much - a group match, which is a defacto semi-final because of an earlier match being washed out. We are going to talk about the The Titan Cup 1996 semi-final featuring Karnataka Bowlers v.
South Africa.
Well Tendulkar did hit an 88 in the match, and Mark Taylor hit a century, but I had to check the scorecards to remember that. The only thing that popped up was Javagal Srinath and Anil Kumble letting loose a frenzied lower order slog which was more reminiscent of Pakistan than the Indian team of those times.
Later on we found out that the tournament was suspect – maybe Cronje
had it fixed, along with Azhar (and Jadeja probably). But unlike match fixing in other matches, these
revelations came out much later – almost 6-8 years had passed, and for a lot of people, the connections were never made.
