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| Test Cricket Tours - Sri Lanka to India 1986-87
| Tour of India 1986-87 Captain: Duleep Mendis | | | | | © Test Cricket Tours | | | Sri Lanka’s sixth Test tour (December 1986 - January 1987) Second Test-playing tour of India by Sri Lanka (previous tour 1982) | Sri Lanka's request for a return tour of India, issued after winning the previous September's Test series against them, made the Indian season unusually long. The Indian Government wanted its Cricket Board of Control to avoid arranging any matches in southern India, where demonstrations over the Tamil separatist cause were feared. A one-dayer at Trivandrum was thus cancelled and for the first time a Test Match was arranged at Cuttack. For Sri Lanka, after a good start, the tour went sour. Team conduct deteriorated such that during the second Test at Nagpur the umpires walked off the field in protest at the Sri Lankan fielders' complaints and insults. The spinners won the series for India. Their two-nil victory was satisfying after their defeat in Sri Lanka the year before. By then the Sri Lankans' tour was in decline and they lost the last four ODIs. Ravi Ratnayeke, who was made one of India's Cricketers of the Year, was again an exception to generally low playing standards. At the end of a tour of disastrous results Wettimuny announced his retirement from first-class cricket and manager Fuard requested two months' leave for health reasons. The Board President said "Some problems have to be resolved both at playing level and at management level". Dr CDL Fernando took over as team manager in the meantime. | Other Sri Lankan Tours Previous tour To Pakistan 1985-86 Next tour To Australia 1987-88 Next Indian tour 1990-91 | | | Members of the Test tour party (16) Opening batsmen: Roshan Mahanama, Sidath Wettimuny Middle-order batsmen :Aravinda de Silva, Duleep Mendis, Arjuna Ranatunga, Ranjan Madugalle, Roy Dias, Asanka Gurusinha, Roshan Jurangpathy. Wicket-keeper:Guy de Alwis All-rounder: Ravi Ratnayeke Spin bowlers: Don Anurasiri, Asoka de Silva Fast bowlers: Asantha de Mel, Rumesh Ratnayeke, Graeme Labrooy | S D Anurasiri | Pa | 20 | SLA | | | R G de Alwis | SSC | 27 | WK | | | A L F de Mel | SSC | 27 | RFM | | | E A R de Silva | NCC | 30 | LB | | | P A de Silva | NCC | 21 | RHB | | | R L Dias | CCC | 34 | RHB | | | A P Gurusinha | SSC | 20 | LHB second WK | | | B R Jurangpathy | CCC | 19 | RHB OB | | | G F Labrooy | CCC | 22 | RFM | | | R S Madugalle | NCC | 27 | RHB | | | R S Mahanama | CCC | 20 | RHB opener | | | L R D Mendis | SSC | 34 | RHB captain | | | A Ranatunga | SSC | 23 | LHB vice-captain | | | J Ravi Ratnayeke | NCC | 26 | LHB opener RFM | | | Rumesh J Ratnayeke | NCC | 22 | RFM | | | S Wettimuny | SSC | 30 | RHB opener | | |
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Average age of team at time of first Test match (17 December 1986) : 25 yrs 7 months. Representation of clubs : CCC: Colombo (4) NCC: Nondescripts (5) Pa: Panadura (1) SSC: Sinhalese Sports Club (6) 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 | Wettimuny 20, Mendis 19, Madugalle 18, Ranatunga 18, de Mel 16, Dias 16, Ravi Ratnayeke 14, Rumesh Ratnayeke 11, PA de Silva 10, de Alwis 7, Gurusinha 3, Anurasiri 2, EAR de Silva 2, Mahanama 2, Jurangpathy 1, Labrooy 0. | | | | Tour Officials | | | | | Selectors | - | | | | Selection | Unavailable: F S Ahangama (ill). Tour Party Announced : ? | Time between selection and departure from Sri Lanka x days (selection to December) | | | Travel Colombo Q Delhi? | Took a plane from Colombo to Delhi ? The team arrived at Gwalior by train. First match 7 December 1986. | Time spent in India x days (December - depart Host) | | | On-tour selection panel | | | | | Reinforcements | None | | | | Fixtures/Results | a | Gwalior | Board President's XI | Drawn | b | Kolhapur | Indian under-25 XI | Drawn | c | KANPUR | INDIA First Test | DRAWN | d | § Kanpur | India (1st ODI) | Won 117 r | e | NAGPUR | INDIA Second Test | LOST inns 106 r | f | CUTTACK | INDIA Third Test | LOST inns 67 r | g | § Guwahati | India (2nd ODI) | Lost 8 w | h | § New Delhi | India (3rd ODI) | Lost 6 w | i | § Baroda | India (4th ODI) | Lost 94 r | j | § Bombay | India (5th ODI) | Lost 10 r |
| � not first-class § one-day international Time spent India before First Test: x days (arrival - 17 December) | | | Test appearances on tour | 3 - de Alwis, Asoka de Silva, Aravinda de Silva, Dias, Gurusinha, Mendis, Ranatunga, Ravi Ratnayeke, Wettimuny. 2 - Rumesh Ratnayeke 1 - Anurasiri, de Mel, Jurangpathy, Labrooy. 0 - Madugalle, Mahanama. | | | | 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 | g | h | i | j | S D Anurasiri | x | x | | | | T | | | o | o | R G de Alwis | x | x | T | o | T | T | o | o | o | | A L F de Mel | | x | T | o | | | o | o | | o | E A R de Silva | x | | T | o | T | T | o | | | | P A de Silva | | x | T | o | T | T | o | o | | | R L Dias | x | x | T | o | T | T | o | o | o | o | A P Gurusinha | x | | T | o | T | T | o | o | o | o | B R Jurungpathy | x | x | | | T | | | | | | G F Labrooy | | x | T | | | | | o | o | o | R S Madugalle | x | x | | | | | o | o | o | | R S Mahanama | | x | | o | | | | | o | o | L R D Mendis | x | x | T | o | T | T | o | o | o | o | A Ranatunga | | x | T | o | T | T | o | o | o | o | Ravi Ratnayeke | x | | T | o | T | T | o | o | o | o | Rumesh Ratnayeke | x | | | o | T | T | o | o | o | o | S Wettimuny | x | | T | | T | T | | | | o | R E S U L T S | D | D | D | W | L | L | L | L | L | L |
| | | | Highlights | • Wettimuny and Ratnayeke made 153 runs in an opening partnership in the first Test at Kanpur. • Sri Lanka went on to total 420 but India’s repsonse was a massive 676 • Ranatunga scored 52 and 59 in his first two innings. | | | | Tour Summary | | F | W | L | D | Aban | Test Matches | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | Other first-class matches | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | - | ϯ Minor matches | 0 | - | - | - | - | § One-day internationals | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | - | All Matches | 10 | 1 | 6 | 3 | - |
| F Fixtures W Won L Lost D Drawn T Tied Canc Cancelled Aban abandoned | | | Return to Sri Lanka Bombay Q Colombo | after 17 January 1987. . | Time away from Sri Lanka x days (December - January)) | | | Postscript | | | | | Other Test tours in 1986-87 | Australians to England to Australia 1986-87 - captain Mike Gatting | © 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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