Sri Lankan national cricket team in India in the 1997/98 season

The 1997/98 season tour of the Sri Lankan national cricket team to India took place from November 19 to December 28, 1997. The international cricket tour was part of the 1997/98 international cricket season and included three tests and three ODIs . The test series ended 0–0 and the ODI series 1–1 a draw.

prehistory

India previously played a tour against Pakistan , Sri Lanka a four-nation tournament in Pakistan . The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in the 1997 season in Sri Lanka .

Stages

Guwahati Indore Margao Mumbai (WS) Mohali Nagpur

Tour venues

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

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Nehru Stadium	Guwahati	15,000	1. ODI
Holkar Stadium	Indore	30,000	2. ODI
Jawarharlal Nehru Stadium	Margao	19,000	3. ODI
Wankhede Stadium	Mumbai	33,000	3rd test
Punjab Cricket Association Stadium	Mohali	35,000	1st test
Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium	Nagpur	45,000	2nd test

Squad lists

The following squads were named by the teams.

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

Testing

First test in Mohali

November 19-23 Scorecard	Mohali	Sri Lanka 369 (125.2) & 251-6 (93.1)	-	India 515-9d (206.5)
		draw

Second test in Nagpur

November 26th - 30th scorecard	Nagpur	India 485 (155)	-	Sri Lanka
		draw

Third test in Mumbai

December 3-7 Scorecard	Mumbai (WS)	India 512 (162.1) & 181-9d (42.4)	-	Sri Lanka 361 (143.2) & 166-7 (82)
		draw

One-day internationals

First ODI in Guwahati

December 22nd scorecard	Guwahati	Sri Lanka 172-9 (45/45)	-	India 173-3 (37.5 / 43)
		India wins with 7 wickets

Second ODI in Indore

December 25th scorecard	Indore	Sri Lanka 17-1 (3)	-	India
		No result

Both teams could not agree on the correct pitch , so the referee decided. This was not adequate to enable a fair game and so the game was stopped after three overs .

Third ODI in Margao

December 28th scorecard	Margao	India 228-6 (50)	-	Sri Lanka 229-5 (48.2)
		Sri Lanka wins with 5 wickets

The game had to be interrupted in the meantime due to riots.

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Williamson: India's Christmas cracker ( English ) Cricinfo. December 24, 2005. Retrieved October 16, 2017.