New Zealand national cricket team in Sri Lanka in the 1987 season

The tour of the New Zealand national cricket team to Sri Lanka in the 1987 season took place from April 16 to May 10, 1987. The international cricket tour was part of the 1987 international cricket season and included three tests . The series ended in a 0–0 draw.

prehistory

It was the first tour of the season for both teams. The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in the 1984/85 season in Sri Lanka .

Stages

Colombo (CCC) Colombo (SSC) Kandy (AS)

Tour venues

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

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Colombo Cricket Club Ground (CCC)	Colombo	6,000	1st test
Sinhalese Sports Club Ground (SSC)	Colombo	10,000	3rd test
Asgiriya Stadium	Kandy	10,300	2nd test

Squad lists

test
Sri Lanka	New Zealand
Don Anurasiri Roy Dias Asanka Gurusinha Brendon Kuruppu Kosala Kuruppuarachchi Ranjan Madugalle Roshan Mahanama Chaminda Mendis Arjuna Ranatunga Ravi Ratnayake Rumesh Ratnayeke	John Bracewell Ewen Chatfield Jeff Crowe Martin Crowe Evan Gray Richard Hadlee Matt Horne Richard Jones Ken Rutherford Ian Smith Martin Snedden

Testing

First test in Colombo

April 16-21 Scorecard	Colombo (CCC)	Sri Lanka 397-9d (173.5)	-	New Zealand 406-5 (163)
		draw

Second test in Kandy

April 24-29 Scorecard	Kandy (AS)	Sri Lanka	-	New Zealand
		Called off

After a bomb attack by the Tamil LTTE on April 21 as part of the Sri Lankan civil war on the Central Bus Station in Colombo in which more than 100 people died, the tour was canceled before the second test.

Third test in Colombo

May 5-10 scorecard	Colombo (SSC)	Sri Lanka	-	New Zealand
		Called off

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1987: Tamil Tigers blamed for bus garage blast ( English ) BBC. Retrieved October 12, 2019.
2. ↑ Kanishkaa Balachandran: Saved by the detour ( English ) Cricinfo. September 12, 2009. Retrieved October 12, 2019.