Test Cricket Tours Sri Lanka to Pakistan 1985-86

Test Cricket Tours - Sri Lanka to Pakistan 1985-86

Tour of Pakistan 1985-86           Captain: Duleep Mendis

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Sri Lanka’s fifth Test tour
    (October -
        November 1985)

Second Test-playing tour of Pakistan by Sri Lanka
(previous tour 1982)

The Sri Lankans left for their second tour of Pakistan full of hope after winning their first Test matches at home against India. However, they lost both the Test series and the one-day internationals. The tourists complained that they were given no time to acclimatise properly, or to practice on Pakistan pitches. Their only warm-up game - as in 1981-82 - was unfortunately abandoned because of bad weather and, aside from the high-scoring first Test, they lost every match.
Only two of the tourists - Aravinda de Silva , who scored his maiden Test hundred on his 20th birthday, and Ravi Ratnayeke, who took record bowling figures of 8 for 83 in the second Test - enhanced their reputations.
There was no Test match at Lahore owing to a recent drop in attendances there, and a new venue of Sialkot was introduced. This match marked the final Test appearance of Zaheer Abbas, in the city of his birth.
During the one-day international at Gujranwala, one spectator was killed and several injured, when they fell from they tree they were sitting in; and in the Hyderabad match Madugalle was hit on the head by a stone thrown by a spectator, the match being held up for half an hour until the Sri Lankans were placated.

Other Sri Lankan Tours

Previous tour
To England 1984

Next tour
To India 1986-87

Next Pakistan tour
1991-92

Members of the Test tour party (16)

Opening batsmen: Sumithra Warnakulasuriya, Amal Silva, Sidat Wettimuny
Middle-order batsmen :Aravinda de Silva, Duleep Mendis, Arjuna Ranatunga, Ranjan Madugalle, Roy Dias, Asanka Gurusinha.
Wicket-keepers:(Silva), (Gurusinha)
Spin bowlers: Sanjeeva Weerasinghe, Roger Wijesuriya
Fast bowlers: Asantha de Mel, Raji Ratnayeke, Rumesh Ratnayeke, Vinothan John, Saliya Ahangama.

F S Ahangama
SSC
26
RM

A L F de Mel
SSC
26
RFM

P A de Silva
NCC
19
RHB opener

R L Dias
CCC
32
RHB vice-captain

A P Gurusinha
SSC
19
LHB   second WK

V B J John
Bf'd
25
RFM

R S Madugalle
NCC
26
RHB

L R D Mendis
SSC
33
RHB captain

A Ranatunga
SSC
21
LHB

J Ravi Ratnayeke
NCC
25
LHB   RFM

Rumesh J Ratnayeke
NCC
21
RFM

S A R Silva
SSC
24
LHB opener WK

S Warnakulasuriya
CCC
23
RHB

C D U S Weerasinghe
NCC
17
LB

S Wettimuny
SSC
29
RHB opener

R G C E Wijesuriya
SSC
25
SLA

Average age of team at time of first Test match
(16 October 1985) :
     25 yrs 6 months

Representation of clubs :
B'fd: Bloomfield Cricket & Athletic Club (1)
CCC: Colombo Cricket Club (2)
NCC: Nondescripts (5)
SSC: Sinhalese Sports Club (8)

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

Madugalle 15, Wettimuny 14, Mendis 13, Dias 12, Ranatunga 12, de Mel 10, Ravi Ratnayeke 8, Rumesh Ratnayeke 7, John 6, Silva 5, PA de Silva 4, Ahangama 3, Weerasinghe 1, Gurusinha 0, Warnakulasuriya 0.

Tour Officials

M A H Fuard
Manager
W A N Silva
Assistant manager

Abu Fuard was appointed full-time manager of the Sri Lankan team for three years from 1985.

Selectors

Selection

Unavailable:
Tour Party Announced : 25 September 1985.

Time between selection and departure from Sri Lanka
12 days
(25 September to 7 October)

Travel
Colombo Q

7 October 1985.

Time spent in Pakistan
   36 days
(7 October - 12 November)

On-tour selection panel

Reinforcements

None. Warnakulasuriya and Weerasinghe appeared in matches only as substitutes.

Fixtures/Results

a
Rawalpindi
BCCP President's XI
Abandoned
b
† Rawalpindi
President's XI (exhibition match)
Won 7 w
c
§ Peshawar
Pakistan (1st ODI)
Lost 8 w
d
FAISALABAD
PAKISTAN   First Test
DRAWN
e
§ Gujranwala
Pakistan (2nd ODI)
Lost 15 r
f
§ Lahore
Pakistan (3rd ODI)
Lost 5 w
g
SIALKOT
PAKISTAN   Second Test
LOST 8 w
h
§ Hyderabad
Pakistan (4th ODI)
Lost 89 r
i
KARACHI
PAKISTAN   Third Test
LOST 10 w

ϯ not first-class
§ one-day international

Time spent in Pakistan before First Test:
  9 days
(7 October - 16 October)

Test appearances on tour

3 - de Mel, de Silva, Dias, Madugalle, Mendis, Ranatunga, Ravi Ratnayeke, Rumesh Ratnayeke, Wettimuny, Wijesuriya.
2 - Silva.
1 - Gurusinha.
0 - Ahangama, John, Warnakulasuriya, Weerasinghe.

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
F S Ahangama

o

A L F de Mel

o
T
o
o
T
o
T
P A de Silva

o
T
o
o
T
o
T
R L Dias

o
T
o
o
T
o
T
A P Gurusinha

o
T
V B J John

o

o
o

o

R S Madugalle

o
T
o
o
T
o
T
L R D Mendis

o
T
o
o
T
o
T
A Ranatunga

o
T
o
o
T
o
T
Ravi Ratnayeke

o
T
o

T
o
T
Rumesh Ratnayeke

o
T
o
o
T
o
T
Amal Silva

o
T
o
o
T

S Warnakulasuriya

S Weerasinghe

S Wettimuny

T

T

T
R G C Wijesuriya

o
T
o
o
T
o
T
   R E S U L T S
A
W
L
D
L
L
L
L
L

Highlights

•    Aravinda de Silva became Sri Lanka's youngest centurion, scoring his maiden Test hundred on his 20th birthday.
•   Ravi Ratnayeke had Sri Lanka's best-ever bowling figures of 8 for 83 in the second Test..
•   De Mel's 6-109 at Karachi were his personal best figures.

Tour Summary

F
W
L
D
Aban
Test Matches
3
0
2
1
-
Other first-class matches
1
0
0
0
1
ϯ Minor matches
1
1
0
0
-
§ One-day internationals
4
0
4
0
-
All Matches
9
1
6
1
1

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

Return to Sri Lanka
Q Colombo

12 November 1985.

.

Time away from Sri Lanka
    36 days
(7 October to 12 November)

Postscript

Other Test tours in 1985-86

Australians to
England to

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Acknowledgements
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