Test Cricket Tours Sri Lanka to Bangladesh 2008-09

Test Cricket Tours - Sri Lanka to Bangladesh 2008-09

Tour of Bangladesh 2008-09           Captain: Mahela Jayawardene

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Sri Lanka’s 42nd Test tour
(December 2008 -
            January 2009 )

Second Test-playing tour of Bangladesh by Sri Lanka
   (previous tour 2005-06)

SUMMARY OF TOUR TO FOLLOW

...............
The first Test had a rest day because Bangladesh was holding a general election on 29 December

Other Sri Lankan Tours

Previous tour
West Indies 2007-08

Next tour
Pakistan 2008-09

Next tour of Bangladesh
2013-14

Members of the Test tour party (16)

Opening batsmen:  Malinda Warnapura, Michael Vandort, Tillekeratne Dilshan.
Middle-order batsmen: Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Tilan Samaraweera, Chamara Kapugedera
Wicket-keeper: Prasanna Jayawardene.
Spin bowlers : Muttiah Muralitharan, Rangana Herath, Ajantha Mendis
Fast bowlers: Dilhara Fernando, Farveez Maharoof, Chaminda Vaas, Dhammika Prasad, Thilan Thushara Mirando

T M Dilshan
Bf'd
32
RHB

C R D Fernando
SSC
29
RFM
ODI

R K Herath    added
Ms
30
SLA

M D Jayawardene
SSC
31
RHB    captain
ODI

P W Jayawardene
Bf'd
29
WK

C K Kapugadera
CCC
21
RHB
ODI

M F Maharoof
NCC
24
RFM
ODI

B A W Mendis
Army
23
OB
ODI

M Muralitharan
T U
36
OB
ODI

D Prasad
SSC
25
RFM
ODI

T T Samaraweera
SSC
32
RHB

K C Sangakkara
NCC
31
LHB   WK
ODI

M T Thushara
SSC
27
LFM
ODI

C U Vaas
Ct
34
LFM

M G Vandort
CCC
28
LHB opener

S M Warnapura
Ct
29
LHB opener

Also a member of the ODI

S T Jayasuriya (Bf'd)
ODI
squad for tri series

S H T Kandamby (SSC)
ODI

N Kulasekera (Ct)
ODI

A D Mathews (Ct)
ODI

J Mubarak (CCC)
ODI

W U Tharanga (NCC)
ODI

Average age of team at time of first Test match
(26 December 2008) :
29 yrs 4 months.

Representation of clubs :
Army: Sri Lanka Army Sports Club (1)
Bf'd: Bloomfield (2)
CCC: Colombo (2)
Ct: Colts Cricket Club (2)
Ms : Moors Sports Club (1)
NCC: Nondescripts (2)
SSC: Sinhalese Sports Club (5)
TU: Tamil Union (1)

ODI part of the tri-series squad

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 123, Vaas 107, M Jayawardene 98, Sangakkara 76, Dilshan 48, Samaraweera 45, Fernando 30, P Jayawardene 21, Maharoof 19, Vandort 19, Herath 13, Warnapura 7, Kapugedera 6, Mendis 3, Thushara 3, Prasad 1.

Tour Officials

Jayantha Paranathala
Manager
Travor Bayliss
Coach
Paul Farbrace
Assistant coach
Chandika Hathurusinghe
Shadow coach
Ranjith Nanayakkarawasam
Physiotherapist
Jade Roberts
Trainer
Sanath Jayasundara
Computer analyst
Lal Thamel
Masseur
Manoj Abeywickrama
Fielding coach
Vinothan John
Selector on Tour

Following Sri Lanka Cricket's policy of having different managers for tours, Nishantha Ranatunga, who went to Canada and Zimbabwe was replaced.   On 4 December it was announced that Mr.Jayantha Paranathala would be Manager and Guy de Alwis the Interim Committee Member on tour.

Selectors

Asantha de Mel (chairman), Don Arunasiri, Ranjith Madurasinghe, Jayantha Seneviratne.

Selection

Unavailable: ??
Tour Party Announced :   4 December 2008.
Stand-by:   Nuwan Kulasekara, Thilina Kandamby, Tharanga Paranavitana.
Withdrawal   Ajantha Mendis on 11 December due to an ankle injury and Rangana Herath would join the tour. But Mendis was able to rejoin the tour in time for the second Test.

One-day squad also announced    4 December 2008.
Not selected : Chaminda Vaas.
Stand-by :   T M Dilshan, Mahela Udawatte, Chanaka Welegedera.

Time between selection and departure from Sri Lanka
     14 days
(4 December to 18 December)

Travel

Colombo Q Dhaka

The Sri Lankan team left the country on Thursday 18 December 2008, flying to Dhaka, Bangladesh. Arrived on the same day
The Interim Committee member Guy De Alwis was scheduled to join the tour party prior to the first Test in Bangladesh.
Spinner Ajantha Mendis joined the squad in Bangladesh on Monday 29 December after a quick recovery from an ankle injury

Time spent in Bangladesh
   30 days
(18 December - 17 January)

On-tour selection panel

In an attempt to give all the selectors equal cash benefits, Sri Lanka Cricket adopted a scheme to rotate selectors for tours.
Ranjith Madurasinghe (Vinodhan John?) was appointed on-tour selector.

Reinforcements (1)

ODI

Ajantha Mendis, an original selection who then withdrew, joined the tour group during the first Test and remained as a member of the group for the one-day internationals.

Fixtures/Results

a
† Savar
Bangladesh Cricket Board XI
Drawn
b
MIRPUR
BANGLADESH First Test
WON 107 r
c
CHITTAGONG
BANGLADESH Second Test
WON 465 r
d
§ Mirpur
Zimbabwe (1st ODI)
Won 130 r
e
§ Mirpur
Bangladesh (2nd ODI)
Lost 5 w
f
§ Mirpur
Bangladesh (ODI final)
Won 2 w

† not first-class
§ one-day international

Time spent in Bangladesh before First Test:
    8 days
(18 December - 26 December)

Test appearances on tour

2 - Dilshan, M Jayawardene, P Jayawardene, Muralitharan, Samaraweera, Sangakkara, Vaas, Warnapura.
1 - Fernando, Herath, Kapugedera, Mendis, Prasad, Vandort.
0 -   Maharoof, Mirando.

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
f
T M Dilshan
x
T
T

D Fernando

T

R K Herath
x
T

S T Jayasuriya

o
o
o
M Jayawardene
x
T
T
o
o
o
P Jayawardene
x
T
T

S Kandamby

C K Kapugadera
x

T
o
o
o
N Kulasekera

o
o
o
F Maharoof
x

o
A D Mathews

o
o

B A W Mendis

T
o
o
o
J Mubarak

o
o
o
M Muralitharan
x
T
T
o
o
o
D Prasad
x
T

T Samaraweera
x
T
T

K C Sangakkara

T
T
o
o
o
W U Tharanga

o
o
o
M T Thushara

o
o
o
C U Vaas
x
T
T

M G Vandort
x
T

S M Warnapura
x
T
T

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

Highlights

•   Dilshan's scored a century in each innings (162 and 143) in the second Test at Chittagong
•   He then took 4 for 10 to send Bangladesh crashing to the fifth largest defeat in Test history.

Tour Summary

F
W
L
D
Aban
Test Matches
2
2
0
0
-
Other first-class matches
0
-
-
-
-
ϯ Minor matches
1
0
0
1
-
§ One-day internationals
3
2
1
0
-
Å T20 internationals
0
-
-
-
-
All Matches
6
4
1
1
-

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

Return to Sri Lanka

Dhaka    Q   Karachi

Lahore   Q   Colombo

At the end of the Test series in Bangladesh the following eight Test squad players returned to Sri Lanka on 10 January: Dilshan, Prasad, Prasanna Jayawardena, Vaas, Vandort, Warnapura, Samaraweera and Herath.

After completing their tri-series in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka's victorious one-day side flew directly from Dhaka to Pakistan on Saturday 17 January touching down at Quaid-e-Azam Airport, Karachi, next day. This tour may be regarded as the first leg of the Test tour to Pakistan 2008-09.
Dilshan was called back into the side and went to Pakistan in preference to Dilhara Fernando.

§ Karachi
Pakistan (1st ODI)
Lost 8 w
§ Karachi
Pakistan (2nd ODI)
Won 129 r
§ Lahore
Pakistan (3rd ODI)
Won 234 r

Ending a successful three-match ODI series, the team then rushed back to Sri Lanka (arriving in Colombo from Lahore on Sunday 25th January 2009) to play five ODI's and a T20 game against India at home before returning to Pakistan in February for a further international series of two Test matches.

Time away from Sri Lanka
    38 days
(18 December to 25 January)

Postscript

Other Test tours in 2008-09

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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