Test Cricket Tours Sri Lanka to Pakistan 2008-09

Test Cricket Tours - Sri Lanka to Pakistan 2008-09

Tour of Pakistan 2008-09           Captain: Mahela Jayawardene

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Sri Lanka’s 43rd Test tour

( January ODI tour,
February - March 2009)

Ninth Test-playing tour of Pakistan by Sri Lanka
    (previous tour 2004-05)

A terrorist attack by Islamist extremists turned this into Sri Lanka's last tour of Pakistan to date; and the final tour made by any country to Pakistan.
India had already brought its tours of Pakistan to a close. The Indian government would not permit its team to travel across the border into Pakistan for a three-Test series following the Mumbai terror attacks in November 2008. In their place Sri Lanka agreed to come. It was a split tour with three one-day internationals followed by a fortnight's break before a two-Test series, the first Test tour of Pakistan since October 2007. The Sri Lankan government said sport was "a good way of enhancing friendship and mutual goodwill".
The tour came as a relief to the PCB but inadequate security arrangements soon put an end to any further international cricket in Pakistan.
Masked men opened fire as the Sri Lanka team bus approached Lahore’s cricket stadium for the second Test match. Five players and the assistant coach were injured, Samaraweera and Mendis badly so. The second Test was immediately called off following the attack and the tourists returned home as soon as possible.

Other Sri Lankan Tours

Previous tour
Bangladesh 2008-09

Next tour
India 2009-10

Next tour v Pakistan
2011-12 in UAE

Members of the Test tour party (15 + 1)

Opening batsmen: Malinda Warnapura, Tharanga Paranavitana
Middle-order batsmen: Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sagakkara (wk), Chamara Kapugadera, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Tilan Samaraweera
Wicket-keeper: Prasanna Jayawardene.
Spin bowlers : Muttiah Muralitharan, Ajantha Mendis
Fast bowlers :Dilhara Fernando, Chaminda Vaas, Suranga Lakmal, Thilina Thushara Mirando, Farveez Maharoof replaced byNuwan Kulasekera

T M Dilshan
Bf'd
32
RHB
ODI

C R D Fernando
SSC
29
RFM
ODI

M D Jayawardene
SSC
31
RHB
ODI

P W Jayawardene
Bf'd
29
WK

C K Kapugerera
CCC
21
RHB
ODI

R A S Lakmal
T U
21
RFM

M F Maharoof
NCC
24
RHB       RMF
ODI

B A W Mendis
Army
23
OB
ODI

M Muralitharan
T U
36
OB
ODI

N T Paranavitana
SSC
26
LHB opener

T T Samaraweera
SSC
32
RHB

K C Sangakkara
NCC
31
LHB   WK   vice-captain
ODI

M T Thushara
SSC
27
LFM
ODI

C U Vaas
Ct
35
LFM

S M Warnapura
Ct
29
LHB opener

Chosen as part of one-day squad only:
S T Jayasuriya
ODI

S H T Kandamby
ODI

M D N Kulasekara
ODI

A D Mathews
ODI

J Mubarak
ODI

W U Tharanga
ODI



Average age of team at time of first Test match
(21 February 2009) :
29 yrs   2months.

Club representation:
Army: Sri Lankan Army Sports Club (1)
Bf'd: Bloomfield (2)
CCC: Colombo (1)
Ct: Colts Cricket Club (2)
NCC: Nondescripts (2)
SSC: Sinhalese Sports Club (5)
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 125, Vaas 109, M Jayawardene 100, Sangakkara 78, Dilshan 50, Samaraweera 47, Fernando 31, P Jayawardene 23, Maharoof 20, Warnapura 9, Kapugedera 7, Mendis 3, Thushara 3, Paranavitana 0, Lakmal 0.

Tour Officials

Brendon Kuruppu
Manager
Trevor Bayliss
Coach
Paul Farbrace
Assistant coach
Ranjith Nanayakkarawasam
Physiotherapist
Jade Roberts
Trainer
Nalin de Alwis
Computer Analyst
Lal Thamel
Masseur
Don Anurasiri
Selector on tour

SLC followed its policy of naming managers on a tour by tour basis with Kuruppu appointed to take over from Jayantha Paranathala, who was the manager for the Bangladesh visit.

Kuruppu, who retired from cricket in 1991, became a commentator and coach of the Tamil Union team.

Selectors

Asantha de Mel (chairman), Don Arunasiri, Ranjith Madurasinghe and Jayantha Seneviratne. Their term originally ended in March 2008 but the Minister of Sport extended it.

Selection

Unavailable: none known
One-day party announced: 9 January 2009
Stand by: Ishara Amarasinghe, Malinga Bandara,   Chamara Silva,   Mahela Udawatte

Test Tour Party Announced : 3 February 2009.
Not selected : Michael Vandort and fast bowler Dammika Prasad.
Following a meeting with the national selectors on 11 February the Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardena announced that he would stand down as Sri Lanka captain after the Test series with Pakistan.

Time between selection and departure from Sri Lanka

11 days (Test team)
(Tests: 3 to 14 February)

Travel

Colombo   Q   Karachi

The Sri Lankans landed in Karachi from Bangladesh on Sunday 18 January to play three day-night ODIs.

The Test team left Sri Lanka Cricket headquarters for the airport at 5:45 pm on Saturday 14 February 2009 and landed at Quaid-e-Azam International Airport in Karachi at 5:00 am on Sunday 15 February.

Time spent in Pakistan
   24 days
(ODIs 18 January - 25 January)
(Tests 15 February - 4 March)

On-tour selection panel

Don Anurasiri (selector on tour), Trevor Bayliss (coach), Mahela Jayawardene (captain), Kumar Sangakkara (vice-captain).

Reinforcements (1)

M D N Kulasekera
Ct
26
RFM
ODI

Nuwan Kulasekera for Farveez Maharoof who strained a groin muscle in practice before the first Test. Doctors decided that Maharoof needed to rest the injury, which required an early return home.

Fixtures/Results

a
§ Karachi
Pakistan (1st ODI)
Lost 8 w
b
§ Karachi
Pakistan (2nd ODI)
Won 129 r
c
§ Lahore
Pakistan (3rd ODI)
Won 234 r

d
† Karachi
PCB Patron's XI (90 overs)
Lost 112 r
e
KARACHI
PAKISTAN First Test
DRAWN
f
LAHORE
PAKISTAN Second Test
DRAWN

† not first-class
§ one-day international

Time spent in Pakistan on Test tour before First Test:
   6 days
(15 February - 21 February)

Test appearances on tour

2 -   Dilshan, Fernando, M Jayawardene, P Jayawardene, Mendis, Muralitharan, Paranavitana, Samaraweera, Sangakkara, Warnapura.
1 -   Thushara, Vaas.
0 -   Kapugadera, Lakmal.

Match appearances

T Test match
o one-day international
x other match
⊕ T/20 international
-   teams not announced

W won L lost D drawn T tie
N no result   A abandoned
u unknown result C cancelled

a
b
c

d
e
f
T M Dilshan
o
o
o

x
T
T
C R D Fernando

x
T
T
S T Jayasuriya
o
o
o

D M Jayawardene
o
o
o

x
T
T
H P W Jayawardene

x
T
T
S H T Kandamby

o
o

C K Kapugerera
o
o
o

M D N Kulasekara
o
o
o

R A S Lakmal

x

M F Maharoof
o
o
o

x

A D Mathews

B A W Mendis
o
o
o

x
T
T
J Mubarak
o

M Muralitharan
o
o
o

x
T
T
N T Paranavitana

x
T
T
T T Samaraweera

x
T
T
K C Sangakkara
o
o
o

x
T
T
W U Tharanga

M T Thushara
o
o
o

x

T
C U Vaas

x
T

S M Warnapura

x
T
T
R E S U L T S
L
W
W

L
D
D

Highlights

•   In the 3rd one-day international at Lahore Sri Lanka inflicted Pakistan’s heaviest defeat (234 runs)
• In the Karachi Test Mahela Jayawardene (240) and Tilan Samaraweera (231) each scored double centuries.
• They added 437 runs for the 4th wicket, beating May and Cowdrey's stand of 411 at Edgbaston in 1957
• Samaraweera then scored 214 at Lahore becoming the sixth batsman to score double centuries in consecutive Tests.

Tour Summary

F
W
L
D
Aban
Test Matches
2
0
0
2
-
Other first-class matches
0
-
-
-
-
ϯ Minor matches
1
0
1
0
-
§ One-day internationals
3
2
1
0
-
Å T20 internationals
0
-
-
-
-
All Matches
6
2
2
2
0

F Fixtures   W Won   L Lost   D Drawn   T Tied Canc Cancelled Aban abandoned

Return to Sri Lanka

Lahore   Q   Colombo

The one-day squad returned home from Lahore on Monday 26 January.

Farveez Maharoof flew home injured during the first Test.
The team bus was on its way to the Gaddafi Stadium for the third day of the second Test match against Pakistan when it came under attack by gunmen. Several Sri Lankan cricketers were injured, none of them critically, but six policemen and two civilians died in the attack. The driver Mohammad sped on to the stadium where an Army helicopter airlifted the players to Lahore Airport and they returned home on a Sri Lankan Airlines flight. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse specially chartered the plane from Abu Dhabi to bring the team back home after the incident.
The cricket team arrived at Colombo's Bandaranayeke International Airport at about 3:50 am on Wednesday 4 March 2009. The team's return saw emotional reunions with anxious family members None of the injured Sri Lanka team members was so seriously hurt that they could not fly back to Colombo but once they arrived, five players and assistant coach Paul Farbrace, who is British, went to the local hospital for further checks.

Time away from Sri Lanka
    26 days

(ODIs 18 January - 26 January)
(Tests 14 February - 4 March)

Postscript

Since March 2009 it has not been possible for an international cricket tour to take place in Pakistan. Instead, for their home series Pakistan have played at the neutral venue of United Arab Emirates.

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Acknowledgements
To general reading of The Times newspaper digital archive (Gale Group); Jamaica Gleanor archive; National Library of Australia Trove; Papers Past NZ.
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cricketweb.net; ESPN cricinfo; cricket archive; www.cricketcountry; www.coverpoint
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Men In White, A History of Australian Cricket (Harte), A History of Indian Cricket (Bose), A History of West Indies Cricket (Manley)
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