Indian national cricket team in Sri Lanka in the 2001 season

The tour of the Indian national cricket team to Sri Lanka in the 2001 season took place from August 8 to 29, 2001. The international cricket tour was part of the 2001 international cricket season and included three test matches . Sri Lanka won the test series 2–1.

prehistory

Both teams previously played a three-nation tournament with New Zealand , which Sri Lanka won in the final against India. The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in the 1997/98 season in India .

Stages

bile Colombo (SSC) Kandy

Tour venues

The following stages were planned as venues for the tour.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Sinhalese Sports Club Ground (SSC)	Colombo	10,000	3rd test
Galle International Stadium	bile	35,000	1st test
Muttiah Muralitharan International Cricket Stadium	Kandy	35,000	2nd test

Squad

India named its roster on August 2, 2001. Sri Lanka named its roster on August 11, 2001.

test
Sri Lanka	India
Sanath Jayasuriya ( K ) Russell Arnold Marvan Atapattu Dilhara Fernando Mahela Jayawardene Dulip Liyanage Muttiah Muralitharan Ruchira Perera Suresh Perera Thilan Samaraweera Kumar Sangakkara ( wk ) Hashan Tilla caratne Chaminda Vaas	Sourav Ganguly ( K ) Hemang Badani Sairaj Bahutule Shiv Sunder That Rahul Dravid Sameer Dighe ( wk ) Mohammad Kaif Zaheer Khan Venkatesh Prasad Sadagoppan Ramesh Harbhajan Singh Harvinder Singh Javagal Srinath

Tour match

August 8-10 scorecard	Colombo	Sri Lanka Board XI 326 (86.5)	-	Indians 281-5d (81)
		draw

Test matches

First test in bile

August 14th - 17th Scorecard	bile	India 187 (95.3) & 180 (74.5)	-	Sri Lanka 362 (107.5) & 6-0 (1.5)
		Sri Lanka wins with 10 wickets

Second test in Kandy

August 22nd - 25th scorecard	Kandy	Sri Lanka 274 (78.3) & 221 (66.3)	-	India 232 (64.1) & 264-3 (78.4)
		India wins with 7 wickets

Third test in Colombo (SSC)

August 29th - September 2nd scorecard	Colombo	India 234 (81.1) & 299 (124.5)	-	Sri Lanka 610-6d (171)
		Sri Lanka wins with one innings and 77 runs

statistics

The following cricket statistics were obtained on this tour.

Testing
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	3	4th	296	74.00	139	2	0
Rahul Dravid	India	3	6th	235	47.00	75	0	2
Marvan Atapattu	Sri Lanka	3	5	225	56.25	108	1	0
Sadagoppan Ramesh	India	3	6th	223	37.16	55	0	1
Shiv Sunder That	India	3	6th	217	36.16	68	0	2
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka	3	177.3	23	19.30	8/87	2	1
Venkatesh Prasad	India	3	97	11	28.00	5/72	1	0
Zaheer Khan	India	3	98.5	10	36.70	4/76	0	0
Dilhara Fernando	Sri Lanka	3	101	9	33.77	5/42	1	0
Chaminda Vaas	Sri Lanka	3	130.4	9	34.66	4/65	0	0

Player of the Series

The following players were honored as Player of the Series .

series	Player of the Series
test	Muttiah Muralitharan

Player of the Match

The following players were recognized as Player of the Match .

game	Player of the Match
1st test	Sanath Jayasuriya
2nd test	Sourav Ganguly
3rd test	Muttiah Muralitharan

Web links

• The series on espncricinfo.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anand Vasu: Prasad, Kaif earn recalls for Test series in Lanka ( English ) Cricinfo. August 2, 2001. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
2. ↑ Sri Lanka vs India - 1st Test Match ( English ) Cricinfo. August 11, 2001. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
3. ↑ Records / India in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2001 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved July 24, 2016.
4. ↑ Records / India in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2001 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved July 24, 2016.