NEW DELHI: It was around this particular afternoon, 22 decades back, when Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid shaped a 318-run stand against Sri Lanka from the 50-over World Cup. Even the duo achieved the effort from the group stage game against Sri Lanka played in Taunton. At the game between India and Sri Lanka, the latter won the toss and chose to bowl . On this particular day in 1999, Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid shared with a 318-run stand against Sri Lanka at Taunton. It’s that the… https://t.co/2CmsEirvE2— ICC (@ICC) 1622005524000India got off to a terrible start as the negative dropped its opener Sadagoppan Ramesh (5) from the first over of their innings. But it was then Ganguly and Dravid got together in the crease and proceeded to make a 318-run standalone. Ganguly played with a bang of 183 runs with 17 fours and seven sixes while Dravid scored 145 conducts with the support of 17 fours and one six. Their heroics allowed India to place a complete of 373/6 from the fifty overs. India subsequently proceeded to win the game as the negative bowled out Sri Lanka for only 216. The Men in Blue went off with success from 157 runs as Robin Singh scalped five wickets. This stand between Dravid and Ganguly is your fourth greatest venture in the background of ODI cricket. India didn’t make it into the semi-finals from the 1999 World Cup. India have won the 50-over World Cup twice. Kapil Dev initially led India into the name win in 1983 and MS Dhoni seized the decoration in 2011 after beating Sri Lanka from the finals.