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 TEST-CRICKET-TOURS.CO.UK WEBSITE ARE COPYRIGHT

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