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Sri Lanka in India 2005/06 : 1st Test at Chennai, December 2 - 6, 2005

Venue : M.A.Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
Toss : India won the toss and elect to bat first
Umpires : Daryl Harper and Mark Benson
Match Result : Match Drawn, 3-Tests Series leveled at 0-0
Man of the Match : Chaminda Vaas

 

Total: 167 all out Run Rate: 2.28 Overs: 73.2
India 1st Innings R B 4s 6s
Gautam Gambhir b Chaminda Vaas 0 7 0 0
Virender Sehwag c Atapattu b Chaminda Vaas 36 28 7 0
Rahul Dravid (C) c Sangakkara b Chaminda Vaas 32 105 3 0
Sachin Tendulkar lbw b Muttiah Muralitharan 22 126 2 0
V.V.S.Laxman run out (sub - Tharanga/Sangakkara) 5 43 1 0
Sourav Ganguly c Dilshan b Dilhara Fernando 5 24 1 0
M.S.Dhoni (WK) c Gunawardene b Malinga Bandara 30 54 6 0
Irfan Pathan c&b Muttiah Muralitharan 0 4 0 0
Ajit Agarkar run out (Gunawardene/Sangakkara) 4 16 0 0
Anil Kumble c&b Chaminda Vaas 9 35 1 0
Harbhajan Singh not out 4 4 1 0
Wides: 0 No Balls: 6 Byes: 12 Leg Byes: 2 Extras: 20
Fall of Wickets 1-13 (Gambhir, 2.1 ovs), 2-45 (Sehwag, 8.5 ovs), 3-97 (Dravid, 37.2 ovs), 4-108 (Tendulkar, 49.1 ovs), 5-109 (Laxman, 53.1 ovs), 6-117 (Ganguly, 56.4 ovs), 7-117 (Pathan, 57.3 ovs), 8-128 (Agarkar, 62.2 ovs), 9-159 (Kumble, 72.2 ovs), 10-167 (Dhoni, 73.2 ovs)

Sri Lanka O M R W Wd Nb
Chaminda Vaas 21 14 20 4 0 0
Dilhara Fernando 16 4 58 1 0 6
Muttiah Muralitharan 25 6 60 2 0 0
Malinga Bandara 11.2 6 15 1 0 0

COMMENTARY & NOTES : India's 1st Innings

Total: 168/4 Run Rate: 3.91 Overs: 43.0
Sri Lanka 1st Innings R B 4s 6s
A Gunawardene c Dhoni b Irfan Pathan 4 6 2 0
K Sangakkara (WK) lbw b Anil Kumble 30 52 5 0
Mahela Jayawardene c Gambhir b Anil Kumble 71 80 14 1
Thilan Samaraweera not out 35 93 7 0
Marvan Atapattu (C) b Anil Kumble 7 20 1 0
Tillakarathe Dilshan not out 8 14 1 0
Jehan Mubarak          
Chaminda Vaas          
Malinga Bandara          
Muttiah Muralitharan          
Dilhara Fernando          
Wides: 1 No Balls: 7 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 0, Penalty: 5 Extras: 13
Fall of Wickets 1-5 (Gunawardene, 0.6 ovs), 2-62 (Sangakkara, 14.6 ovs), 3-124 (Jayawardene, 28.6 ovs), 4-158 (Atapattu, 38.4 ovs)

India O M R W Wd Nb
Irfan Pathan 7 0 43 1 1 0
Ajit Agarkar 10 3 29 0 0 0
Sourav Ganguly 2 0 16 0 0 2
Harbhajan Singh 9 2 34 0 0 0
Anil Kumble 15 2 41 3 0 5

COMMENTARY & NOTES :

  • 0.6 ovs : Pathan forces Avishka Gunawardene to edge his away swinger and Dhoni takes his 1st catch in Test Cricket and it happens to be his 100th first class catch.
  • Sri Lanka 39/1 in 10.0 overs (Sangakkara 24* Jayawardene 10*)
  • 11th over --> Sourav Ganguly replaces Pathan
  • Sri Lanka 50/1 in 12.2 overs
  • 2nd wicket partnership bet'n Sangakkara and Jayawardene crosses 50 in 74 balls
  • 14th over --> Harbhajan replaces Agarkar
  • 15th over --> Kumble replaces Ganguly
  • 14.6 ovs : Sangakkara doesn't picks up Kumble's top spinner and looks to play for the turn which wasn't there and gets struck on his pads. Harper raises his finger to send Sangakkara back to the pavilion.
  • Sri Lanka 76/2 in 20.0 overs (Jayawardene 34* Samaraweera 1*)
  • Sri Lanka 81/2 in 21.0 overs at Tea on Day 5
  • 22nd over --> Pathan replaces Harbhajan
  • Jayawardene's fifty came in 59 balls
  • Sri Lanka 101/2 in 23.4 overs
  • 26th over --> Agarkar replaces Pathan
  • 50 runs partnership for the 3rd wicket bet'n Jayawardene and Samaraweera in 65 balls
  • 28.6 ovs : Jayawardene gets caught at short leg off Kumble but the batsman is unfortunate as he didn't get any inside edge.
  • Sri Lanka 128/3 in 30.0 overs (Samaraweera 13* Atapattu 0*)
  • 34th over --> Harbhajan replaces Agarkar
  • Sri Lanka 151/3 in 36.1 ovs
  • 38.4 ovs : Kumble --> Atapattu makes the mistake of going for the pull shot on a low bounce track and gets his stumps cleaned up, not a great length to play the pull
  • Sri Lanka 163/4 in 40.0 overs (Samaraweera 35* Dilshan 4*)