Sharjah, October 30 : Indian cricketers disgraced themselves as never before being bundled out for 54 runs, their lowest-ever One-day score, to enable Sri Lanka to annihilate them in the final of the tri-nation tournament here on Sunday.The Indians were humiliated by a margin of 245 runs in just 26.3 overs after Sri Lankan captain Sanath Jayasuriya had hit a blazing 189 off 161 balls to enable the island nation to make 299 in their 50 overs.Sachin Tendulkar and Saurav Ganguly, the gods of Indian cricket, and mere mortals such as Vinod Kambli, Robin Singh and newcomcers Yuvraj Singh and Hemang Badani, all fell in the course of one of the most abject surrenders in the game's history. Only Robin Singh, with 11, got into the double figures and the Indians fell nine runs short of their previous lowest score of 63 against Australia in Sydney in 1981.This was the lowest score ever made by any team at Sharjah. There was no devil at the wicket as demonstrated by Jayasuriya but the Indians failed to negotiate both the pace and the spin to prove that their successes in Nairobi were perhaps aberration.Chaminda Vaas took five wickets for 14 runs but Muralitharan also grabbed three wickets for just six runs.
