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Test Cricket Tours - Sri Lanka to India 1990-91

 

 

Tour of India 1990-91           Captain: Arjuna Ranatunga

 

 

 

 

©  Test Cricket Tours

 

 

 

Sri Lanka’s tenth Test tour

  (November -

           December 1990)

 

Third Test-playing  tour of India by Sri Lanka

  (previous tour 1986-87)

 

 

 

 

 

In June 1990 a first-class tournament began in Sri Lanka but as no international cricket was possible in Sri Lanka. This tour of India was hastily arranged.  The Test match at Chandigarh was shifted from Jalandhar at a late stage because of tension there. On a poorly prepared pitch India defeated the tourists by a large margin. The Sri Lankans requested that an extra Test match or ODI should be arranged but the Indian Board was unable to meet this request.

The manager's end of tour report, in which he and his assistant said "we were disappointed with the captain's attitude as he appeared disinterested in the tour", was published.  Arjuna had been warned in November 1990 about his conduct. A commission of enquiry found indications of the captain's indifferent and aloof attitude, and criticised him for failing to motivate players or to contribute at team meetings.

 

 

Other Sri Lankan Tours

 

Previous tour

To Australia 1989-90

 

Next tour

To New Zealand 1990-91

 

Next Indian tour

1993-94

 

 

 

Members of the Test tour party  (17)

 

 

Opening batsmen: Roshan Mahanama, Athula Samarasekera, Dammika Ranatunga.

Middle-order batsmen: Arjuna Ranatunga, Asanka Gurusinha, Aravinda de Silva, Marvan Atapattu.

Wicketkeeper:Gamini Wickremasinghe, Roshan Kaluwitharana, Hashan Tillekeratne

Spin bowlers: Ranjith Madurasinghe, Don Anurasiri, Jayananda Warnaweera.

Fast bowlers: Graeme Labrooy, Champaka Ramanayake, Kapila Wijegunawardene, Rumesh Ratnayeke.

 

 

S D Anurasiri

Pa

24

SLA

 

 

M S Atapattu      added

SSC

20

RHB 

 

 

P A de Silva

NCC

25

RHB 

 

 

A P Gurusinha

SSC

24

LHB

 

 

S T Jayasuriya    w/d

CCC

21

LHB    SLA

 

 

R S Kaluwitharana

BRC

21

second WK

 

 

G F Labrooy

CCC

26

RFM

 

 

A W R Madurasinghe

Ku

29

OB

 

 

R S Mahanama

CCC

24

RHB opener   vice-captain

 

 

C P H Ramanayake

T U

25

RFM

 

 

A Ranatunga

SSC

26

LHB    captain

 

 

D Ranatunga

SSC

28

RHB  opener

 

 

Rumesh J Ratnayeke

NCC

26

RFM

 

 

M A R Samarasekara

CCC

29

RHB  opener     RFM

 

 

H P Tillekeratne

NCC

23

LHB   reserve WK

 

 

K P J Warnaweera

Ga

30

RM/OB

 

 

A G D Wickremasinghe

NCC

24

WK

 

 

K I W Wijegunawardene

CCC

26

RM

 

 

 

 

 

 

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

(23 November 1990) :

   25 yrs  7 months

 

 

 

Representation of clubs :

BRC : Burgher Recreation Club (1)

CCC: Colombo (5)

Ga  Galle (1)

Ku: Kurunegala (1)

NCC: Nondescripts (4)

Pa : Panadura (1)

SSC: Sinhalese Sports Club (4)

TU: Tamil Union (1)

 

 

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

 

 

Arjuna Ranatunga 26,  Aravinda de Silva 17,  Rumesh J Ratnayeke 15,  Gurusinha 9,  Mahanama 6,  Labrooy 5,  Ramanayake 4, Anurasiri 4,  D Ranatunga 2,  Samarasekera 2,  Tillekeratne 1,  Warnaweera 1,  Wickremasinghe 1,  Atapattu 0,  Jayasuriya 0,  Kaluwitharana 0,  Madurasinghe 0,  Wijegunawardene 0.

 

 

 

 

 

Tour Officials

 

Gamini Goonesena

Manager

Sidath Wettimuny

Assistant manager

Lal Thamel

Physiotherapist

 

Gamini Goonesena and Sidath Wettimuny were chosen as manager and assistant on 1 November for this tour and for the Asia Cup. 

Mumtaz Yusuf and Jayantha Seneviratne were announced on 4 November to replace them on the Sharjah tour.

 

 

 

 

 

Selectors

 

Michael Tissera (Vice-President of the Board  and chairman of selectors,  J Paranathala,  Anura Polonowita, Mumtaz M Yusuf (asst secretary of Board).

 

 

 

 

Selection

 

Arjuna Ranatunga was appointed captain on 4 November. despite facing disciplinary action for arguing with umpires and abusing spectators.

Unavailable    Ravi Ratnayeke, who had migrated to Melbourne the previous month; Pramodya Wickremasinghe, Saliya Ahangama and Piyal Wijetunga, all owing to injuries.

Tour Party Announced :  7 November 1990.

Rumesh Ratnayeke was back after a knee injury had made him miss the tour of England.

Stand-bys:  M S Atapattu (SSC),  C Hathurasinghe (TU).

Withdrawal:  Sanath Jaysuriya split the webbing of his right hand (taking a catch at a practice session). He was replaced by Marvan Atapattu.

 

Time between selection and departure from Sri Lanka

  13 days

(7 November to 20 November)

 

 

 

 

Travel

Colombo  Q   Delhi

 

Anurasiri contracted an eye infection but was passed fit to tour.

The tour began on the afternoon of 20 November when they flew via Bombay to Delhi  After an overnight stopover, on 21 November they took a connecting flight to Chandigarh which was staging its first-ever Test.

 

Time spent in India

   19 days

(20 November - 9 December)

 

 

 

 

On-tour selection panel

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reinforcements

 

None. The team had so many players (17) that Gamini Wickremasinghe did not play in a match.  The Board's intention was to give more players exposure to one-day internationals.

 

 

 

 

 

Fixtures/Results

 

a

CHANDIGARH

INDIA  Test Match

LOST inns 8 r

b

§ Nagpur

India (1st ODI)

Lost 19 r

c

§ Pune

India (2nd ODI)

Lost 6 w

d

§ Margao

India (3rd ODI)

Won 7 w

 

 

† not first-class

§  one-day international

 

Time spent in India before First Test:   3 days

(20 November - 23 November)

 

 

 

 

Test appearances on tour

 

1 -  Atapattu,  de Silva,  Gurusinha,  Labrooy,  Madurasinghe,  Mahanama,  Arjuna Ranatunga,  Ratnayeke,  Samarasekera,  Tillekeratne,  Warnaweera.

0 -  Anurasiri,  Jayasuriya,  Kaluwitharana,  Ramanayake,  Dammika Ranatunga,  Gamini Wickremasinghe,  Wijegunawardene.

 

 

 

 

 

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

S D Anurasiri

 

 

o

o

M S Atapattu

T

o

o

 

P A de Silva

T

o

o

o

A P Gurusinha

T

o

o

o

S T Jayasuriya

 

 

 

 

R S Kaluwitharana

 

 

 

o

G F Labrooy

T

o

o

 

R Madurasinghe

T

o

 

 

R S Mahanama

T

o

o

o

C Ramanayake

 

 

 

o

A Ranatunga

T

o

o

o

D Ranatunga

 

 

o

o

Rumesh Ratnayeke

T

o

o

o

A Samarasekara

T

o

 

 

H P Tillekeratne

T

o

o

o

K P J Warnaweera

T

 

 

o

G Wickremasinghe

 

 

 

 

K Wijegunawardene

 

o

o

 

   R E S U L T S

L

L

L

W

 

 

 

 

 

 

Highlights

 

  Tillekeratne scored his first Test fifty, sharing a record 9th wicket partnership of 60 with Madurasinghe

 

 

 

 

 

Tour Summary

 

 

F

W

L

D

Aban

Test Matches

1

0

1

0

-

Other first-class matches

0

-

-

-

-

ϯ Minor matches

0

-

-

-

-

§ One-day internationals

3

1

2

0

-

All Matches

4

1

3

0

-

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

Return to Sri Lanka

            Q   Colombo

 

9 December 1990.

 

 

Time away from Sri Lanka   19 days  

(20 November to 9 December)

 

 

 

Postscript

The team left Sri Lanka again for Sharjah for two benefit matches on 18 December and returned to India for the Asia Cup on 23 December.

 

 

 

 

 

Other Test tours in 1990-91

 

 

Australians to

England  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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