Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Sadagoppan Ramesh	c Ranatunga b Jayawardene	143	214	317	18	0	66.82
VVS Laxman	c de Silva b Perera	11	22	37	2	0	50.00
Rahul Dravid	c Ranatunga b Hathurusingha	107	218	314	12	0	49.08
Sachin Tendulkar	c †Kaluwitharana b Vaas	53	54	94	10	0	98.14
Mohammad Azharuddin (c)	c Hathurusingha b Arnold	87	161	218	12	0	54.03
Sourav Ganguly	c sub (RS Kalpage) b Upashantha	56	127	209	6	0	44.09
Nayan Mongia †	c de Silva b Arnold	25	56	75	2	0	44.64
Anil Kumble	not out	10	15	24	1	0	66.66
Extras	(b 5, lb 6, nb 12, w 3)	26
Total	142.5 Ov (RR: 3.62)	518/7d
Did not bat: Venkatesh Prasad, Harbhajan Singh, Ashish Nehra
Fall of wickets: 1-20 (VVS Laxman, 7.1 ov), 2-252 (Sadagoppan Ramesh, 71.3 ov), 3-288 (Rahul Dravid, 78.6 ov), 4-351 (Sachin Tendulkar, 90.1 ov), 5-463 (Mohammad Azharuddin, 125.3 ov), 6-491 (Sourav Ganguly, 136.3 ov), 7-518 (Nayan Mongia, 142.5 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Chaminda Vaas	31	5	108	1	3.48	-	-	-	0	1
Ruchira Perera	30	4	125	1	4.16	-	-	-	1	7
Eric Upashantha	28	3	94	1	3.35	-	-	-	1	1
Chandika Hathurusinghe	18	3	51	1	2.83	-	-	-	1	2
Russel Arnold	24.5	2	94	2	3.78	-	-	-	0	0
Mahela Jayawardene	11	3	35	1	3.18	-	-	-	0	0

Sri Lanka 1st Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Russel Arnold	run out (Dravid)	34	93	120	5	1	36.55
Marvan Atapattu	lbw b Nehra	6	13	24	1	0	46.15
Mahela Jayawardene	c & b Kumble	242	465	677	30	2	52.04
Chandika Hathurusinghe	lbw b Prasad	14	39	61	2	0	35.89
Aravinda de Silva	b Harbhajan Singh	23	54	69	4	0	42.59
Arjuna Ranatunga (c)	c sub (HH Kanitkar) b Kumble	66	113	176	8	0	58.40
Hashan Tillakaratne	st †Mongia b Harbhajan Singh	14	47	105	3	0	29.78
Romesh Kaluwitharana †	b Harbhajan Singh	23	45	57	2	0	51.11
Chaminda Vaas	c Laxman b Kumble	23	64	93	3	0	35.93
Eric Upashantha	lbw b Kumble	6	17	22	1	0	35.29
Ruchira Perera	not out	1	9	6	0	0	11.11
Extras	(b 1, lb 19, nb 9, w 4)	33
Total	159.1 Ov (RR: 3.04)	485
Fall of wickets: 1-18 (Marvan Atapattu, 5.2 ov), 2-93 (Russel Arnold, 29.3 ov), 3-129 (Chandika Hathurusinghe, 44.1 ov), 4-178 (Aravinda de Silva, 59.2 ov), 4-293* (Arjuna Ranatunga, retired not out), 5-354 (Hashan Tillakaratne, 115.5 ov), 6-390 (Romesh Kaluwitharana, 131.2 ov), 7-466 (Chaminda Vaas, 153.2 ov), 8-466 (Arjuna Ranatunga, 153.3 ov), 9-484 (Eric Upashantha, 157.3 ov), 10-485 (Mahela Jayawardene, 159.1 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Venkatesh Prasad	31	6	94	1	3.03	-	-	-	1	0
Ashish Nehra	28	5	94	1	3.35	-	-	-	0	8
Anil Kumble	54.1	10	134	4	2.47	-	-	-	0	0
Harbhajan Singh	40	9	127	3	3.17	-	-	-	0	0
Sachin Tendulkar	5	0	16	0	3.20	-	-	-	0	0
Sourav Ganguly	1	1	0	0	0.00	-	-	-	0	0

India 2nd Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Sadagoppan Ramesh	c Tillakaratne b Upashantha	30	38	50	5	0	78.94
VVS Laxman	lbw b Upashantha	25	63	111	3	0	39.68
Sourav Ganguly	st †Kaluwitharana b de Silva	78	167	244	8	0	46.70
Sachin Tendulkar	not out	124	235	308	10	1	52.76
Mohammad Azharuddin (c)	c Arnold b de Silva	15	41	43	0	0	36.58
Anil Kumble	c Vaas b Arnold	10	40	36	0	0	25.00
Venkatesh Prasad	not out	9	52	43	1	0	17.30
Extras	(b 1, lb 3, nb 9, w 2)	15
Total	104 Ov (RR: 2.94)	306/5
Did not bat: Rahul Dravid, Harbhajan Singh, Ashish Nehra, Nayan Mongia †
Fall of wickets: 1-50 (Sadagoppan Ramesh, 9.6 ov), 2-74 (VVS Laxman, 21.5 ov), 3-213 (Sourav Ganguly, 64.2 ov), 4-253 (Mohammad Azharuddin, 78.4 ov), 5-283 (Anil Kumble, 88.5 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Chaminda Vaas	18	3	58	0	3.22	-	-	-	0	0
Ruchira Perera	14	2	60	0	4.28	-	-	-	2	3
Eric Upashantha	15	2	41	2	2.73	-	-	-	0	1
Russel Arnold	23.4	4	54	1	2.28	-	-	-	0	0
Aravinda de Silva	18.2	2	59	2	3.21	-	-	-	0	2
Mahela Jayawardene	14	1	30	0	2.14	-	-	-	0	0
Hashan Tillakaratne	1	1	0	0	0.00	-	-	-	0	0

Close of Play

Wed, 24 Feb - day 1 - India 1st innings 351/3 (Sachin Tendulkar 53*, Mohammad Azharuddin 19*, 90 ov)

Thu, 25 Feb - day 2 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 121/2 (Mahela Jayawardene 59*, Chandika Hathurusinghe 11*, 37 ov)

Fri, 26 Feb - day 3 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 293/4 (Mahela Jayawardene 128*, Arjuna Ranatunga 66*, 95.2 ov)

Sat, 27 Feb - day 4 - India 2nd innings 59/1 (VVS Laxman 17*, Sourav Ganguly 7*, 13.3 ov)

Sun, 28 Feb - day 5 - India 2nd innings 306/5 (104 ov) - end of match

Match Flow

Day 3

Day 4

A Ranatunga retired hurt on 66* from 293/4 to 466/7
Rain interrupts play again, Umpires had to call of play due to inclement weather.

Match Details

Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo
Toss	Sri Lanka, elected to field first
Series	Asian Test Championship
Season	1998/99
Player Of The Match	Mahela Jayawardene
Match number	Test no. 1445
Match days	day (5-day match)
Test debut	Ashish Nehra Eric Upashantha Ruchira Perera
Umpires	Rudi Koertzen Russell Tiffin
TV Umpire	Saleem Badar
Match Referee	Cammie Smith
Points	India 5, Sri Lanka 4

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Sri Lanka v India 1998-99

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India Innings

Player Name	O	M	R	W	Econ
WPUJC Vaas	18	3	58	0	3.22
PDRL Perera	14	2	60	0	4.28 (3 nb)
KEA Upashantha	15	2	41	2	2.73 (1 nb)
RP Arnold	23.4	4	54	1	2.28
PA de Silva	18.2	2	59	2	3.21 (2 nb)
DPMD Jayawardene	14	1	30	0	2.14
HP Tillakaratne	1	1	0	0	0

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