Sri Lankan national cricket team in India in the 2009-10 season

The Sri Lankan national cricket team tour to India in the 2009/10 season took place from November 11th to December 27th, 2009. The international cricket tour was part of the 2009/10 international cricket season and included three test matches , five ODIs and two Twenty20s . India won the Test series 2-0 and the ODI series 3-1, the Twenty20 series finished 1-1.

prehistory

India previously played a tour against Australia , for Sri Lanka it was the first tour of the season after the ICC Champions Trophy 2009 . The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in Sri Lanka in the 2008/09 season . For security reasons, the second ODI was relocated from Visakhapatnam to Nagpur at short notice .

Stages

Ahmedabad Cutack Delhi Kanpur Kolkata Mumbai (BS) Mohali Nagpur Rajkot

Tour venues

The following stages were planned as venues for the tour and were announced on October 23, 2009.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Sardar Patel Stadium	Ahmedabad	54,000	1st test
Barabati Stadium	Cutack	45,000	3. ODI
Feroz Shah Kotla	Delhi	48,000	5. ODI
Green Park Stadium	Kanpur	33,000	2nd test
Eden Gardens	Kolkata	82,000	4. ODI
Punjab Cricket Association Stadium	Mohali	35,000	2. T20
Brabourne Stadium	Mumbai	25,000	3rd test
Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium	Nagpur	45,000	1. T20; 2. ODI
Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground	Rajkot	15,000	1. ODI

Squad lists

Sri Lanka named its squad on October 27, 2009. India named its test squad on November 10 and its limited-overs squad on December 2, 2009.

test		ODI		Twenty20
India	Sri Lanka	India	Sri Lanka	India	Sri Lanka
MS Dhoni ( K & wk ) S. Badrinath Rahul Dravid Gautam Gambhir Zaheer Khan VVS Laxman Amit Mishra Pragyan Ojha Virender Sehwag Ishant Sharma Harbhajan Singh Yuvraj Singh Sreesanth Sachin Tendulkar Murali Vijay	Kumar Sangakkara ( K ) Tillakaratne Dilshan Dilhara Fernando Rangana Herath Mahela Jayawardene Prasanna Jayawardene ( wk ) Thilina Kandamby Nuwan Kulasekara Angelo Mathews Ajantha Mendis Muttiah Muralitharan Tharanga Paranavitana Dhammika Prasad Thilan Samaraweera Kaushal Silva Chanaka Welegedara	MS Dhoni ( K & wk ) Ashok Dinda Gautam Gambhir Ravindra Jadeja Dinesh Karthik ( wk ) Zaheer Khan Virat Kohli Praveen Kumar Ashish Nehra Pragyan Ojha Suresh Raina Virender Sehwag Ishant Sharma Harbhajan Singh Yuvraj Singh Sreesanth Sachin Tendulkar Sudeep Tyagi	Kumar Sangakkara ( K & wk ) Tillakaratne Dilshan Sanath Jayasuriya Mahela Jayawardene Thilina Kandamby Chamara Kapugedera Nuwan Kulasekara Lasith Malinga Ajantha Mendis Thisara Perera Muthumudal Pushpakumara Suraj Randiv Thilan Samaraweera Upul Tharanga	MS Dhoni ( K ) Ravichandran Ashwin Ashok Dinda Gautam Gambhir Dinesh Karthik ( wk ) Ashish Nehra Pragyan Ojha Yusuf Pathan Suresh Raina Virender Sehwag Ishant Sharma Rohit Sharma Yuvraj Singh Sreesanth Sudeep Tyagi	Kumar Sangakkara ( K & wk ) Tillakaratne Dilshan Dilhara Fernando Chinthaka Jayasinghe Sanath Jayasuriya Mahela Jayawardene Chamara Kapugedera Nuwan Kulasekara Lasith Malinga Angelo Mathews Ajantha Mendis Muttiah Muralitharan Muthumudal Pushpakumara Kaushalya Weeraratne Chanaka Welegedara

Tour match

November 11-13 Scorecard	Mumbai	Indian Board President's XI	-	Sri Lankans
		Game canceled

Test matches

First test in Ahmedabad

November 16-20 Scorecard	Ahmedabad	India 426 (104.5) & 412-4 (129)	-	Sri Lanka 760-7d (202.4)
		draw

Second test in Kanpur

November 24-27 Scorecard	Kanpur	India 642 (154)	-	Sri Lanka 229 (84) & 269 (65.3) (f / o)
		India wins with one innings and 144 runs

Third test in Mumbai

December 2-6 scorecard	Mumbai	Sri Lanka 393 (94.4) & 309 (100.4)	-	India 726-9d (163.3)
		India wins with one innings and 24 runs

Twenty20 Internationals

First Twenty20 in Nagpur

December 9th scorecard	Nagpur	Sri Lanka 215-5 (20)	-	India 186-9 (20)
		Sri Lanka wins with 29 runs

Second Twenty20 in Mohali

December 12th scorecard	Mohali	Sri Lanka 206-7 (20)	-	India 211-4 (19.1)
		India wins with 6 wickets

Sri Lanka was fined for playing too slowly.

One-day internationals

First ODI in Rajkot

December 15th scorecard	Rajkot	India 414-7 (50)	-	Sri Lanka 411-8 (50)
		India wins with 3 runs

Second ODI in Nagpur

December 18 scorecard	Nagpur	India 301-7 (50)	-	Sri Lanka 302-7 (49.1)
		Sri Lanka wins with 3 wickets

Due to the slow playing style of India, their captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was banned for the next two ODIs.

Third ODI in Cuttack

December 21 scorecard	Cutack	Sri Lanka 239 (44.2)	-	India 243-3 (42.3)
		India wins with 7 wickets

Fourth ODI in Kolkata

December 24th scorecard	Kolkata	Sri Lanka 315-6 (50)	-	India 317-3 (48.1)
		India wins with 7 wickets

Fifth ODI in Delhi

December 27th scorecard	Delhi	Sri Lanka 83-5 (23.3)	-	India
		No result

The game was canceled because the pitch was classified as dangerous. The incident sparked discussions as to whether the venue is suitable for the 2011 Cricket World Cup .

statistics

The following cricket statistics were obtained on this tour.

Testing
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Virender Sehwag	India	3	4th	491	122.75	293	2	1
Rahul Dravid	India	3	4th	433	108.25	177	2	1
Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	3	5	373	74.60	275	1	0
Prasanna Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	3	5	297	74.25	154 *	1	0
Gautam Gambhir	India	2	3	282	94.00	167	2	0
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Harbhajan Singh	India	3	158.2	13	41.00	4/112	0	0
Rangana Herath	Sri Lanka	3	148.3	11	48.81	5/121	1	0
Zaheer Khan	India	3	104	10	36.50	5/72	1	0
Pragyan Ojha	India	2	85.1	9	28.66	3/101	0	0
Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka	3	151.5	9	65.66	4/195	0	0

ODIs
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka	5	5	353	70.60	160	2	0
Upul Tharanga	Sri Lanka	5	5	295	59.00	118	1	2
Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	5	5	218	43.60	90	0	2
Sachin Tendulkar	India	4th	4th	216	72.00	96 *	0	2
Virender Sehwag	India	5	4th	204	51.00	146	1	0
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Zaheer Khan	India	5	45	7th	40.00	3/63	0	0
Harbhajan Singh	India	5	43	6th	35.00	2/58	0	0
Ashish Nehra	India	5	40.2	6th	46.50	2/32	0	0
Suraj Randiv	Sri Lanka	4th	28	5	28.20	3/51	0	0
Chanaka Welegedara	Sri Lanka	4th	27	5	30.20	2/35	0	0

Twenty20s
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	2	2	137	68.50	78	0	2
Virender Sehwag	India	2	2	90	45.00	64	0	1
Gautam Gambhir	India	2	2	76	38.00	55	0	1
Yuvraj Singh	India	2	2	66	66.00	60 *	0	1
Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka	2	2	57	28.50	31	0	0
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Yuvraj Singh	India	2	3	3	7.66	3/23	0	0
Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka	2	4th	2	9.50	2/19	0	0
Ishant Sharma	India	2	8th	2	32.00	2/42	0	0
Angelo Mathews	Sri Lanka	2	7.1	2	39.50	2/30	0	0
Yusuf Pathan	India	2	7th	2	41.50	1/29	0	0

Player of the Series

The following players were honored as Player of the Series .

series	Player of the Series
test	Virender Sehwag
ODI	Tillakaratne Dilshan
T20	Kumar Sangakkara

Player of the Match

The following players were recognized as Player of the Match .

game	Player of the Match
1st test	Mahela Jayawardene
2nd test	Sreesanth
3rd test	Virender Sehwag
1. T20	Kumar Sangakkara
2. T20	Yuvraj Singh
1. ODI	Virender Sehwag
2. ODI	Tillakaratne Dilshan
3. ODI	Ravindra Jadeja
4. ODI	Gautam Gambhir

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Second ODI shifted to Nagpur ( English ) Cricinfo. December 14, 2009. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
2. ^ Brabourne Stadium to host Test after 36 years ( English ) Cricinfo. October 23, 2009. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
3. ↑ Sa'adi Thawfeeq: Kandamby, Kaushal Silva get Test call-ups ( English ) Cricinfo. October 27, 2009. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
4. ↑ Sidharth Monga: Sreesanth and Zaheer Khan recalled for Tests ( English ) Cricinfo. November 10, 2009. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
5. ↑ Sreesanth included in India's limited-overs squads ( English ) Cricinfo. December 2, 2009. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
6. ↑ Sri Lanka fined for slow over-rate ( English ) Cricinfo. December 14, 2009. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
7. ↑ MS Dhoni banned for two ODIs ( English ) Cricinfo. December 19, 2009. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
8. ↑ Sidharth Monga: Match abandoned because of dangerous pitch ( English ) Cricinfo. December 27, 2009. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
9. ↑ Nagraj Gollapudi: No immediate decision on Kotla's WC status - ICC ( English ) Cricinfo. December 28, 2009. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
10. ↑ Records / Sri Lanka in India Test Series, 2009/10 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
11. ↑ Records / Sri Lanka in India Test Series, 2009/10 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
12. ↑ Records / Sri Lanka in India ODI Series, 2009/10 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
13. ↑ Records / Sri Lanka in India ODI Series, 2009/10 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
14. ↑ Records / Sri Lanka in India T20I Series, 2009/10 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
15. ↑ Records / Sri Lanka in India T20I Series, 2009/10 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved July 14, 2016.