Indian national cricket team in Sri Lanka in the 1997 season

The tour of the Bangladeshi national cricket team to Sri Lanka in the 1997 season took place from August 2 to 24, 1997. The international cricket tour was part of the 1997 international cricket season and included two tests and three ODIs . Sri Lanka won the Test Series 2–0 and the ODI Series 3–0.

prehistory

Both teams previously played at the 1997 Asia Cup . The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in the 1993/94 season in India .

Stages

Colombo (PSS) Colombo (RPS) Colombo (SSC) Dambulla bile Hambantota Kandy (AS) Kandy (MMS)

Tour venues

The following stages have been designated as the venue for the tour.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
R. Premadasa Stadium (RPS)	Colombo	35,000	1st test; 1st & 2nd ODI
Sinhalese Sports Club Ground (SSC)	Colombo	10,000	2. test; 3. ODI

Squad lists

The following squads were named by the teams.

test		ODI
Sri Lanka	India	Sri Lanka	India
Marvan Atapattu Aravinda de Silva Sajeewa de Silva Sanath Jayasuriya Mahela Jayawardene Romesh Kaluwitharana Roshan Mahanama Muttiah Muralitharan Ravindra Pushpakumara Arjuna Ranatunga Jayantha Silva Chaminda Vaas	Mohammad Azharuddin Rajesh Chauhan Rahul Dravid Sourav Ganguly Ajay Jadeja Nilesh Kulkarni Anil Kumble Abey Kuruvilla Debasis Mohanty Nayan Mongia Venkatesh Prasad Navjot Sidhu Sachin Tendulkar	Marvan Atapattu Upul Chandana Aravinda de Silva Lanka de Silva Sajeewa de Silva Kumar Dharmasena Sanath Jayasuriya Ruwan Kalpage Dulip Liyanage Roshan Mahanama Muttiah Muralitharan Arjuna Ranatunga Hashan Tilla caratne Chaminda Vaas	Mohammad Azharuddin Rajesh Chauhan Rahul Dravid Sourav Ganguly Ajay Jadeja Nilesh Kulkarni Anil Kumble Abey Kuruvilla Nayan Mongia Venkatesh Prasad Robin Singh Sachin Tendulkar

Testing

First test in Colombo

August 2-6 scorecard	Colombo (RPS)	India 537-8d (167.3)	-	Sri Lanka 952-6d (271)
		draw

Indian bowler Nilesh Kulkarni was the 12th bowler to score a wicket with his first test ball . The Sri Lankan batsmen Sanath Jayasuriya and Roshan Mahanama were the first partnership that did not have to accept a wicket for two days. The Sri Lankan innings was the highest Test innings ever achieved.

Second test in Colombo

August 9-13 Scorecard	Colombo (SSC)	Sri Lanka 332 (95.4) & 415-7d (98.4)	-	India 375 (141.1) & 281-5 (100)
		draw

One-day internationals

First ODI in Colombo

August 17th Scorecard	Colombo (RPS)	Sri Lanka 302-4 (50)	-	India 300-7 (50)
		Sri Lanka wins with 2 runs

Second ODI in Colombo

August 20 scorecard	Colombo (RPS)	India 238 (49.3)	-	Sri Lanka 241-3 (41.5)
		Sri Lanka wins with 7 wickets

Third ODI in Colombo

August 23 scorecard	Colombo (SSC)	India 291-9 (50)	-	Sri Lanka 132-6 (19/19)
		No result

August 24th scorecard	Colombo (SSC)	Sri Lanka 264 (49.4)	-	India 255-8 (50)
		Sri Lanka wins with 9 runs

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Steven Lynch: The highest test total ( English ) Cricinfo. September 1997. Retrieved October 18, 2017.