Home AUSTRALIA BANGLADESH ENGLAND INDIA NEW ZEALAND PAKISTAN SOUTH AFRICA SRI LANKA WEST INDIES ZIMBABWE Contact Us

| Test Cricket Tours - Sri Lanka to Bangladesh 2005-06
| Tour of
Bangladesh 2005-06 Captain: Mahela Jayawardene | | | | | © Test Cricket Tours | | | Sri Lanka’s 37th Test tour (February - March 2006) First
Test-playing tour of Bangladesh
by Sri Lanka (no previous
tour) | Following
postponement of the Asia Cup, Sri Lanka Cricket asked the Bangladesh Board if
they could bring their first tour of the newest member of the International
Cricket Council forward by ten days and the BCB rearranged the schedule. There
were complaints that for the first time a Test series in Bangladesh did not include a match in Dhaka. The
highlights of the series centred around Muralitharan who played in his 100th
Test and captured his 600th Test wicket.
However, the younger players - Maharoof, Tharanga and Vandort - also
showed their capabilities and promise for the future. Mahela
Jayawardene, leading the side in a Test series for the first time, safely saw
Sri Lanka to victories by
an eight-wicket margin at Chittagong
and a ten-wicket margin at Bogra Bangladesh continued its losing
streak. The batsmen again disappointed the home supporters by getting out
playing too many rash shots. | Other
Sri Lankan Tours Previous
tour India 2005-06 Next
tour England 2006 Next
tour of Bangladesh 2008-09 | | | Members of the Test tour party (15) Opening batsmen: Upul Tharanga,
Michael Vandort. Middle-order batsmen: Mahela
Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara, Thilan Samaraweera, Tillakaratne Dilshan,
Chamara Kapugedera. Wicket-keeper : Prasanna Jayawardene. Spin bowlers : Sajeewa Weerakoon,
Muttiah Muralitharan, Malinga Bandara. Fast bowlers: Farveez Maharoof, Dammika Prasad, Lasith Malinga,
Dilhara Fernando. | H M
Bandara | G | 26 | LB | ODI | | T M
Dilshan | Bf'd | 26 | RHB OB
deputy WK | ODI | | C R D
Fernando | SSC | 26 | RFM | ODI | | M D
Jayawardene | SSC | 28 | RHB captain | ODI | | P W Jayawardene | NCC | 26 | WK | | | C K
Kapugedera | CCC | 19 | RHB | ODI | | M F
Maharoof | Bf'd | 21 | RHB RFM | ODI | | S L
Malinga | NCC | 22 | RF | | | M
Muralitharan | T U | 31 | OB | | | K T D
Prasad | SSC | 22 | RFM | ODI | | T T Samaraweera | SSC | 29 | RHB | | | K C Sangakkara | NCC | 28 | LHB WK vice-captain | ODI | | W U
Tharanga | NCC | 21 | LHB
opener | ODI | | M G Vandort | CCC | 26 | LHB | | | S
Weerakoon | Brg | 28 | SLA | | | Members
of the ODI squad | H Fernando | ODI | | A Ganegama | ODI | | | | S T Jayasuriya | ODI | | | | K S Lokuarachchi | ODI | | | | J Mubarak | ODI | | | | P R L Perera | ODI |
|  Average
age of team at time of first Test
match (28
February 2006) : 25 yrs 9 months. Representation of clubs : Bf’d : Bloomfield (2) Brg: Burgher
CC (1) CCC: Colombo
(2) G : Galle (1) NCC: Nondescripts (4) SSC: Sinhalese Sports Club (4) TU: Tamil Union (1) ODI Member of squad for the GrameenPhone
one-day series 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 99, M Jayawardene 74, Sangakkara 53, Samaraweera 33, Dilshan 30,
Fernando 20, Malinga 11, Maharoof 6,
P Jayawardene 5, M Bandara 4, Vandort 2,
Tharanga 1, Kapugedera 0, Prasad 0, Weerakoon
0. | | | | ⋆ Tour Officials | Michael Tissera | Manager | Tom Moody | Coach | Trevor Penney | Assistant
coach | Tommy Simsek | Physiotherapist | C J Clark | Fitness
trainer | G G T Niroshan | Computer
analyst |
| | | | Selectors | Lalith Kaluperuma (chairman), K M
Nelson, Don Anurasiri and Shabbir
Asgerally. | | | | Selection | Not considered: Captain Marvan Atapattu (back injury) and
Chaminda Vaas were rested because the team had been playing non-stop since
November. Jayasuriya, now recovered
from his shoulder injury, was picked only for the ODIs and Murali (who had
not yet seen his son born while he was in Australia) only for the Test
matches. Tour party announced: 15
February 2006. Six
players would join the team for the Test matches - P Jayawardene, Malinga,
Murali, Samaraweera, Vandort and Weerakoon. Not selected : Russel Arnold, despite topping the averages
in a recent tri-series in Australia. | Time between selection and departure from Sri Lanka 2 days (15 - 17 February 2006) | | | Travel Colombo Q Dhaka | Following their return from Australia on Thursday 16 February, the
15-member Sri Lankan team took a very short break at home en route to Bangladesh. Leaving
Sri Lanka again on Friday
17 February, they arrived at Zia International Airport,
Dhaka, later that morning and, after lunch,
left by coach for Bogra in the north, for the first two one-dayers to be held
at the new venue. | Time spent in Bangladesh 24 days (17 February - 13 March) | | | On-tour selection panel | Manager Michael Tissera
(chair), Tom Moody (coach), Mahela Jayawardene (captain) and Kumar Sangakkara (vice-captain). | | | | Reinforcements | None required - on the
contrary, three members of the tour party did not play in any match | | | | Fixtures/Results | a | § Bogra | Bangladesh (1st ODI) | Won
by 5 w | b | § Bogra | Bangladesh (2nd ODI) | Lost
4 w | c | § Chittagong | Bangladesh (3rd ODI) | Won
78 r | d | CHITTAGONG | BANGLADESH First Test | WON 8
w | e | BOGRA | BANGLADESH Second Test | WON 10
w |
| § one-day international Time spent in Bangladesh before First Test: 11 days (17 February - 28 February) | | | Test appearances on tour | 2 - Bandara, Dilshan, Fernando, M.Jayawardene, Maharoof, Malinga, Muralitharan, Samaraweera, Sangakkara, Tharanga, Vandort. 0 - P Jayawardene, Kapugedera, Prasad, Weerakoon. | | | | Match appearances T Test match o one-day international x other match ⊕ T/20 international W won L lost D drawn N
no result A abandoned u unknown result | | a | b | c | d | e | C M Bandara | o | o | o | T | T | T M Dilshan | o | o | o | T | T | C R D Fernando | o | o | | T | T | H Fernando | o | o | | | | A Ganegama | | | | | | S T Jayasuriya | o | o | o | | | M D Jayawardene | o | o | o | T | T | P W Jayawardene | | | | | | C K Kapugedera | o | o | o | | | K S Lokuarachchi | | | o | | | M F Maharoof | o | o | o | T | T | S L Malinga | | | | T | T | J Mubarak | o | o | | | | M Muralitharan | | | | T | T | P R L Perera | o | o | o | | | K T D Prasad | | | o | | | T T Samaraweera | | | | T | T | K C Sangakkara | o | o | o | T | T | W U Tharanga | | | o | T | T | M G Vandort | | | | T | T | S Weerakoon | | | | | | R E S U L T S | W | L | W | W | W |
| | | | Highlights | • Muralitharan
captured his thousandth international wicket while playing in his hundredth
Test match • He
then took his 600th Test wicket in the next match at Bogra • Upul
Tharanga scored his maiden Test hundred at Bogra, and followed up with 71 in
the 2nd innings. | | | | Tour Summary | | F | W | L | D | Aban | Test Matches | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | - | Other first-class
matches | 0 | - | - | - | - | ϯ Minor matches | 0 | - | - | - | - | § One-day internationals | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | - | All Matches | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | - |
| F Fixtures W Won
L Lost
D Drawn T Tied Canc Cancelled
Aban abandoned | | | Return to Sri Lanka Dhaka
Q Colombo | Persistent
rain delayed the inevitable result of the final Test match for seven hours and
spoiled the plans to catch an early flight back home. Return to Colombo was on Monday
13 March There
was little time for rest at home as they were scheduled to play their first
one-day match against Pakistan
on 17 March. | Time away from Sri
Lanka 24 days (17 February to 13 March) | | | Postscript | …….. | | | | Other
Test tours in 2005-06 | Australians to South Africa
& Bangladesh 2005-06 - captain Ricky Ponting England to Pakistan 2005-06
- captain Michael Vaughan England to India 2005-06 - captain Andrew Flintoff Indians to Pakistan 2005-06
- captain Rahul Dravid New Zealanders to South Africa 2005-06 -
captain Stephen Fleming Pakistanis to Sri Lanka 2005-06
- captain Inzamamul Haq South Africans to Australia 2005-06 -
captain Graeme Smith Sri Lankans to India 2005-06
- captain Marvan Atapattu West Indians to Australia 2005-06
- captain Shiv Chanderpaul West Indians to New Zealand 2005-06 -
captain Shiv Chanderpaul | © 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 | |
Powered by Create |