The captains of the cricket teams taking part in the 1999 Cricket World Cup (Left to right back row) Zimbabwe's Alistair Campbell, South Africa's Hansie Cronje, Kenya's Aasif Karim, New Zealand's Stephen Fleming, Australia's Stephen Waugh, Pakistan's Wasim Akram, (front, Bangladesh Aminul Islam, India's Mohammad Azharuddin, England's Alec Stewart, Sri Lanka's Arjuna Ranatunga, West India's Brian Lara, and Scotland's George Salmond, during a photocall at London's Lords cricket ground, 4 May 1999© AFP
Buddhist monk Bellanvila Wimalaratne gives blessed holy water to Sri Lanka's star leg spinner Muttiah Muralitharan while skipper Arjuna Ranatunga and his deputy Aravinda de Silva have a conversation, just before the team leaves, on 24 April 1999 in Colombo, for England to take part in the Cricket World Cup.© AFP
Arjuna Ranatunga and Mohammad Azharuddin at the toss along with Match Referee Cammie Smith and TV Commentator Ravi Shastri© ESPNcricinfo Ltd