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| Test Cricket Tours - Sri Lanka to Pakistan 1985-86
| Tour of Pakistan 1985-86 Captain: Duleep Mendis | | | | | © Test Cricket Tours | | | 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 | | |
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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 | © 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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