Sri Lankan national cricket team in New Zealand in the 1990/91 season

The tour of the Sri Lankan national cricket team to New Zealand in the 1990/91 season took place from January 31 to March 5, 1991. The international cricket tour was part of the 1990/91 international cricket season and included three tests and three ODIs . New Zealand won the ODI series 3–0, while the Test series 0–0 ended in a draw.

prehistory

New Zealand previously played a three-nation tournament in Australia , while Sri Lanka took part in the 1990 Asia Cup . The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in the 1986/87 season in Sri Lanka .

Stages

Auckland Dunedin (CS) Hamilton Napier Wellington (BR)

Tour venues

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

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Eden Park	Auckland	50,000	3rd test; 2. ODI
Seddon Park	Hamilton	10,000	2nd test
McLean Park	Napier	22,500	1. ODI
Basin Reserve	Wellington	11,000	1st test

Squad lists

The following squads were named by the teams.

test		ODI
New Zealand	Sri Lanka	New Zealand	Sri Lanka
Grant Bradburn Chris Cairns Martin Crowe Trevor Franklin Mark Greatbatch Richard Jones Danny Morrison Dipak Patel Chris Pringle Ken Rutherford Ian Smith Shane Thomson Willie Watson John Wright	Asanka Gurusinha Chandika Hathurusingha Sanath Jayasuriya Graeme Labrooy Roshan Mahanama Champaka Ramanayake Arjuna Ranatunga Rumesh Ratnayake Charith Senanayake Hashan Tilla caratne Jayananda Varnaweera Asoka de Silva Aravinda de Silva	Martin Crowe Mark Greatbatch Chris Harris Richard Jones Gavin Larsen Danny Morrison Richard Petrie Chris Pringle Richard Reid Ken Rutherford Ian Smith Willie Watson John Wright	Asanka Gurusinha Sanath Jayasuriya Romesh Kaluwitharana Graeme Labrooy Roshan Mahanama Champaka Ramanayake Arjuna Ranatunga Rumesh Ratnayake Charith Senanayake Hashan Tilla caratne Kapila Wijegunawardene Asoka de Silva Aravinda de Silva

One-day internationals

First ODI in Napier

January 26th scorecard	Napier	Sri Lanka 177-8 (50)	-	New Zealand 178-5 (42.3)
		New Zealand wins with 5 wickets

Second ODI in Auckland

January 28th scorecard	Auckland	New Zealand 242-5 (50)	-	Sri Lanka 201 (44.4)
		New Zealand wins with 41 runs

Third ODI in Dunedin

February 6 scorecard	Dunedin (CS)	New Zealand 272-6 (50)	-	Sri Lanka 165 (33.1)
		New Zealand wins with 107 runs

Testing

First test in Wellington

January 31 - February 4 scorecard	Wellington (BR)	New Zealand 174 (58.3) & 671 (220.3)	-	Sri Lanka 497 (151.1)
		draw

Second test in Hamilton

February 22-26 Scorecard	Hamilton	New Zealand 296 (121.4) & 374-6d (105)	-	Sri Lanka 253 (93.4) ​​& 344-6 (125)
		draw

Third test in Auckland

March 1-5 Scorecard	Auckland	Sri Lanka 380 (105) & 319 (96)	-	New Zealand 317 (115.3) & 261-5 (99)
		draw

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo