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| Test Cricket Tours - Sri Lanka to Pakistan 2001-02
| Tour of
Pakistan 2001-02 Captain: Sanath Jayasuriya | | | | Second Asian Test Championship | © Test Cricket Tours | | | Sri Lanka’s 28th Test tour (March 2002) Seventh
Test-playing tour of Pakistan
by Sri Lanka (previous
tour 1999-00) | As a tournament, the second
(and last) Asian Test Championship was a failure once the event had been
undermined by India’s
withdrawal. Only Pakistan
and Sri Lanka were strong
enough to win so it became a two-horse race, with Bangladesh making up the numbers.
The organisers scrapped the
meaningless league game between Sri Lanka
and Pakistan after they
had both beaten Bangladesh
and moved directly to the final. Sri Lanka travelled
to Lahore and
dominated the final from its start. They fully deserved to become the current
Asian Champions. This
one-match tour at
least saw international cricket returning to Pakistan after the September 11th
terrorist attacks. New Zealand had agreed to tour a month later in
mid-April but a bomb blast killing fifteen people outside
their Karachi hotel brought a swift end to
their tour and further disruption to Pakistan’s cricket. | Other
Sri Lankan Tours Previous
tour South Africa 2000-01 Next
tour England 2002 Next
tour of Pakistan 2004-05 | | | Members of the Test tour party (14) Opening batsman: Sanath Jayasuriya, Marvan Atapattu. Middle-order batsmen : Kumar
Sangakkara (also
wicket-keeper), Mahela Jayawardene,
Hashan Tillakaratne, Russel Arnold, Tillakarante Dilshan, Thilan Samaraweera. Spin bowlers: Muttiah Muralitharan,
Upal Chandana. Fast bowlers:Chaminda Vaas, Buddika Fernando, Nuwan
Zoysa, Dulip Liyange. | R P Arnold | NCC | 28 | LHB | | | M S Atapattu | SSC | 31 | RHB vice-captain | | | C
Buddhika Fernando | Pa | 21 | RFM | | | U D U
Chandana | T U | 29 | LBG | | | T M
Dilshan | Bf'd | 25 | RHB | | | S T
Jayasuriya | Bf'd | 32 | LHB
opener SLA captain | | | M D
Jayawardene | SSC | 24 | RHB | | | D K
Liyanage | Ct | 29 | RFM | | | M
Muralitharan | T U | 29 | OB | | | T T
Samaraweera | SSC | 25 | RHB | | | K C
Sangakkara | NCC | 24 | LHB WK | | | H P
Tillekeratne | NCC | 34 | LHB | | | C U
Vaas | Ct | 28 | LFM | | | D N T
Zoysa | SSC | 23 | LFM | | |
| Average
age of team at time of first Test match (6
March 2002) : 27 yrs 8 months. Club representation B'fd: Bloomfield
(2) CCC: Colombo
CC (0) Ct: Colts Cricket Club (2) NCC: Nondescripts (3) Pa - Panadura
(1) SSC: Sinhalese Sports Club (4) TU: Tamil Union (2) Key to type : LHB left-hand bat, LBG leg break and googly bowler, OB off break, SLA slow left-arm bowler, RFM right arm fast medium bowler | | | Test Appearances made before the tour | Muralitharan 72, Jayasuriya 69, Tillakaratne 66, Vaas 58,
Atapattu 54, Jayawardene
40, Arnold 36, Zoysa 21,
Sangakkara 19, Dilshan 10, Liyanage 9,
Samaraweera 8, Chandana 6, Buddhika 4,
| | | | Tour Officials | Chandra Schaffter
| Manager | Dav
Whatmore | Coach | Alex
Kountouri | Physiotherapist |
Schaffter, a strong disciplinarian, was brought in as
manager | | | | Selectors | Tikiri Banda Kehelgamuwa (chair), Brendon Kuruppu, Kapila Wijegunawardena, Amal Silva, K.M. Nelson. | | | | Selection | Unavailable: Dilhara Fernando (stress fractures of back), Ruchira Perera (groin) and Prabath Nissanka
(hamstring). Tour Party Announced: 22 February 2002. Not selected
: Chamara Silva. | Time between selection and departure from Sri Lanka 9 days (22 February - 3 March) | | | Travel Colombo Q Lahore | The team flew out of Colombo on Sunday 3
March 2002 Arrived in Lahore
later the same day, 3 March 2002 | Time spent in Pakistan 8 days (3 March - 11 March) | | | On-tour selection panel | The
constitution of the Sri Lankan Cricket Board states: "Whilst on tour the
selection of the team shall be done by the Manager, Captain and
Vice-Captain" but inevitably coach Dav Whatmore had much influence. | | | | Reinforcements | None | | | | Fixtures/Results | a | LAHORE | PAKISTAN Test Match | WON 8 w |
| Time spent in Pakistan before
First Test: 3 days (3 March - 6 March) | | | Test appearances on tour | 1 - Arnold,
Atapattu, Buddhika, Jayasuriya,
Jayawardene, Muralitharan, Samaraweera, Sangakkara,
Tillekeratne, Vaas, Zoysa. 0 - Chandana,
Dilshan, Liyanage | | | | Highlights | • Kumar
Sangakkara scored 230, sharing a partnership of 203 with Jayasuriya and 173
with Jayawardene. • Muralitharan
had already taken four wickets in the first innings and now took 4-72 to
dismiss Pakistan. | | | | Tour Summary | | F | W | L | D | Aban | Test Matches | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | Other matches | 0 | - | - | - | - | All Matches | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - |
| F Fixtures W Won
L Lost
D Drawn T Tied Canc Cancelled
Aban abandoned | | | Return to Sri Lanka Lahore Q Colombo
| 11 March not
in Daily News | Time away from Sri
Lanka 8 days (3 - 11 March 2002) | | | Postscript | Sri
Lanka’s victory was as
emphatic as Pakistan’s
had been in the first Asian Championship in 1999. | | | | Other
Test tours in 2001-02 | Australians to | © 2015 | | | Acknowledgements
To
general reading of The Times newspaper
digital archive (Gale Group); Jamaica
Gleanor archive; National Library of
Australia Trove; Papers Past NZ. From
former British Newspaper Library, Colindale and online: The Age, Melbourne Argus, Bangladesh Daily
Star, Barbados Advocate, Canberra Times, Daily Telegraph, Dawn, Eastern Daily
Press, The Hindu, The Independent (Dhaka), Indian Express, The Island (Lanka),
Lahore Times, New Nation, New Zealand Auckland Herald, Sri Lanka Daily News,
Stabroek News, Straits Times, Sydney Morning Herald, The Telegraph
(Calcutta), Times of India , The Tribune Chandigarh, Trinidad Guardian, The
West Australian. cricketweb.net; ESPN cricinfo; cricket archive; www.cricketcountry;
www.coverpoint Magazines/periodicals
including Australian Cricket, B & H West Indies Annual, The Cricketer
International, Cricketer Quarterly, Indian Cricket, Indian Cricket Field
Annual, Playfair Cricket Monthly, Shell Cricket Almanack of New Zealand,
Wisden Cricket Monthly, Wisden Book of Test Cricket, Wisden’s Cricketers’
Almanack. Men In
White, A History of Australian Cricket (Harte), A History of Indian Cricket
(Bose), A History of West Indies Cricket
(Manley) Biography and tour books (own collection and at the M.C.C.
Library at Lord’s Ground) © ALL CONTENTS OF THE
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