In those days, there were not much cricket. There were no T20 and no league matches etc. The people of the era were emotionally attached with their national teams and would not bear the losses at such important occasions like semi finals or finals. These days you don't find such reaction on loses because now people just enjoy the match and treat it as a game only.
The main issue during the world cup in 1996 is that everyone knew about match fixing and everyone believed that the match fixing was the reason for the defeat, India started really well in the match, Sri Lanka was batting first and Jayasuriya and Kaluwitharana were tearing away bowlers and India was able to pick their wickets easily in the first over and then the match slipped away and when India was batting India was in a strong position with Sachin Tendulkar counter attacking the bowlers and when he got out the score was 98 for the loss of 2 wickets and from that situation India lost 6 more wickets for just 22 runs and the crowd was calling foul play because the dismissals were like that and the crowd started lighting the stadium and that is the reason the play was called off.If any of you remember those days, there were rumors that they will rematch again because the crowd stopped the play and i was convinced that they will rematch again
and i believe the reason for the crowd intervention was because of that reason.I didn't knew about this inside story of the rematch of that semi final but why there would have been a re-match if the crowd interrupted at the end of the match. Wouldn't it be better if they could resume the match from the moment it was interrupted when Indian were 8 out.
What was the logic of the full match to be played again ?
