1st Match: Pakistan v Sri Lanka, 12 Sep 2002

 
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And if anything signified that this was a tournament different from any other, it was the simple score-line: "Shoaib Malik lbw b Vaas." On appeal, Daryl Harper promptly used his new-found powers and referred the decision to the third umpire, Rudy Koertzen. Television replays showed that the ball pitched in line with leg and would have gone on to hit the stumps, and Shoaib Malik went down in history to become the first batsman given out leg-before by the third umpire.

 
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