Sri Lankan national cricket team in Pakistan in the 1995/96 season

The tour of the Sri Lankan national cricket team to Pakistan in the 1995/96 season took place from September 8 to October 3, 1995. The international cricket tour was part of the 1995/96 international cricket season and included three tests and three ODIs . Sri Lanka won both series 2–1.

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 1994 season in Sri Lanka .

Stages

Faisalabad Gujranwala Peshawar Rawalpindi Sialkot

Tour venues

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

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Iqbal Stadium	Faisalabad	18,000	2. test; 2. ODI
Jinnah Stadium	Gujranwala	40,000	1. ODI
Arbab Niaz Stadium	Peshawar	20,000	1st test
Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium	Rawalpindi	25,000	3. ODI
Jinnah Stadium	Sialkot	18,000	3rd test

Squad lists

The following squads were named by the teams.

test		ODI
Pakistan	Sri Lanka	Pakistan	Sri Lanka
Aamer Hanif Aamer Sohail Aaqib Javed Ata-ur-Rehman Basit Ali Ijaz Ahmed Inzamam-ul-Haq Mohammad Akram Moin Khan Rameez Raja Saeed Anwar Saqlain Mushtaq Shoaib Mohammad Waqar Younis Wasim Akram Zahid Fazal	Aravinda de Silva Kumar Dharmasena CI Dunusinghe Asanka Gurusinha Chandika Hathurusingha Roshan Mahanama Muttiah Muralitharan Ravindra Pushpakumara Arjuna Ranatunga Arjuna Ranatunga Hashan Tilla caratne Chaminda Vaas Pramodya Wickramasinghe	Aamer Hanif Aamer Sohail Aaqib Javed Arshad Khan Ata-ur-Rehman Basit Ali Inzamam-ul-Haq Mohammad Akram Moin Khan Rameez Raja Saeed Anwar Saleem Elahi Saqlain Mushtaq Zafar Iqbal	Aravinda de Silva Kumar Dharmasena Asanka Gurusinha Sanath Jayasuriya Ruwan Kalpage Romesh Kaluwitharana Roshan Mahanama Muttiah Muralitharan Ravindra Pushpakumara Arjuna Ranatunga Hashan Tilla caratne KEA Upashantha Chaminda Vaas Pramodya Wickramasinghe

Testing

First test in Peshawar

September 8-11 Scorecard	Peshawar	Pakistan 459 (149)	-	Sri Lanka 186 (62.1) & 233 (80) (f / o)
		Pakistan wins with one innings and 40 runs

Second test in Faisalabad

September 15-19 Scorecard	Faisalabad	Sri Lanka 223 (70) & 361 (146.3)	-	Pakistan 333 (118) & 209 (72.1)
		Sri Lanka wins with 42 runs

Third test in Sialkot

September 22nd - 26th scorecard	Sialkot	Sri Lanka 232 (92.3) & 338-9d (120.3)	-	Pakistan 214 (83.1) & 212 (76)
		Sri Lanka wins with 144 runs

One-day internationals

First ODI in Gujranwala

September 29 scorecard	Gujranwala	Sri Lanka 233-5 (50)	-	Pakistan 234-1 (44)
		Pakistan wins with 9 wickets

Second ODI in Faisalabad

October 1st scorecard	Faisalabad	Sri Lanka 257-7 (50)	-	Pakistan 208-8 (50)
		Sri Lanka wins with 49 runs

Third ODI in Rawalpindi

October 3rd scorecard	Rawalpindi	Pakistan 183-9 (38/38)	-	Sri Lanka 184-6 (37.4 / 38)
		Sri Lanka wins with 4 wickets

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo