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Test no. 1474

Sri Lanka in Zimbabwe Test Series - 3rd Test
Zimbabwe v Sri Lanka

1999/00 season

Played at Harare Sports Club on 4,5,6,7,8 December 1999 (5-day match)

Result Match drawn


Zimbabwe 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	GW Flower	c Dilshan b Pushpakumara	13	90	66	2	0	19.69
	CB Wishart	lbw b Vaas	1	27	15	0	0	6.66
	MW Goodwin	b Pushpakumara	11	50	33	1	0	33.33
	NC Johnson	lbw b Wickramasinghe	70	218	149	7	1	46.97
	A Flower	c Arnold b Vaas	14	75	61	1	0	22.95
	ADR Campbell	lbw b Pushpakumara	9	24	18	2	0	50.00
	GJ Whittall	c Arnold b Pushpakumara	37	161	139	4	0	26.61
	RW Price	lbw b Pushpakumara	2	66	49	0	0	4.08
	EA Brandes	b Vaas	9	34	22	2	0	40.90
	BC Strang	c Atapattu b Vaas	28	51	40	1	1	70.00
	HK Olonga	not out	3	27	17	0	0	17.64
	Extras	(lb 4, w 2, nb 15)	21

	Total	(all out; 98.4 overs)	218	(2.20 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-5 (Wishart, 6.1 ov), 2-24 (Goodwin, 16.3 ov), 3-33 (GW Flower, 18.5 ov), 4-67 (A Flower, 36.5 ov), 5-82 (Campbell, 42.4 ov), 6-143 (Johnson, 70.6 ov), 7-174 (Whittall, 85.2 ov), 8-175 (Price, 87.3 ov), 9-196 (Brandes, 92.4 ov), 10-218 (Strang, 98.4 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
WPUJC Vaas	29.4	10	56	4	1.88	(4nb)
KR Pushpakumara	25	5	56	5	2.24	(7nb)
GP Wickramasinghe	16	6	41	1	2.56
M Muralitharan	24	6	51	0	2.12	(5nb)
ST Jayasuriya	4	1	10	0	2.50


Sri Lanka 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	MS Atapattu	c Johnson b Olonga	0	4	5	0	0	0.00
	RP Arnold	not out	104	377	243	14	0	42.79
	DPMD Jayawardene	c Goodwin b Brandes	2	13	12	0	0	16.66
	ST Jayasuriya	c A Flower b Brandes	4	49	33	0	0	12.12
	TM Dilshan	c A Flower b Strang	37	55	42	7	0	88.09
	RS Kaluwitharana	c A Flower b Whittall	7	22	19	1	0	36.84
	SI de Saram	c GW Flower b Whittall	38	104	87	6	0	43.67
	WPUJC Vaas	c Campbell b Brandes	0	15	12	0	0	0.00
	KR Pushpakumara	lbw b Strang	7	42	30	1	0	23.33
	GP Wickramasinghe	c A Flower b Olonga	18	32	28	3	0	64.28
	M Muralitharan	b Olonga	5	32	26	0	0	19.23
	Extras	(lb 2, w 2, nb 5)	9

	Total	(all out; 88.4 overs)	231	(2.60 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-1 (Atapattu, 0.5 ov), 2-4 (Jayawardene, 3.4 ov), 3-29 (Jayasuriya, 15.1 ov), 4-82 (Dilshan, 28.2 ov), 5-90 (Kaluwitharana, 33.6 ov), 6-158 (de Saram, 61.2 ov), 7-159 (Vaas, 64.4 ov), 8-178 (Pushpakumara, 74.3 ov), 9-208 (Wickramasinghe, 82.3 ov), 10-231 (Muralitharan, 88.4 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
HK Olonga	22.4	2	54	3	2.38	(2w)
EA Brandes	17	5	45	3	2.64	(1nb)
BC Strang	24	8	71	2	2.95	(2nb)
GJ Whittall	17	9	37	2	2.17	(2nb)
RW Price	8	3	22	0	2.75


Zimbabwe 2nd innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	GW Flower	c Dilshan b Vaas	13	27	20	0	0	65.00
	CB Wishart	b Vaas	9	55	35	2	0	25.71
	MW Goodwin	c Jayawardene b Muralitharan	38	176	116	6	0	32.75
	NC Johnson	c Dilshan b Wickramasinghe	9	65	35	0	0	25.71
	A Flower	not out	70	333	257	4	0	27.23
	ADR Campbell	c Jayawardene b Vaas	27	117	104	2	0	25.96
	GJ Whittall	c Arnold b Muralitharan	9	59	46	1	0	19.56
	RW Price	run out (Jayasuriya/Muralitharan)	4	28	26	1	0	15.38
	EA Brandes	not out	1	43	24	0	0	4.16
	Extras	(b 3, lb 5, nb 9)	17

	Total	(7 wickets dec; 109 overs)	197	(1.80 runs per over)

Did not bat BC Strang, HK Olonga

Fall of wickets1-14 (GW Flower, 6.1 ov), 2-28 (Wishart, 12.2 ov), 3-51 (Johnson, 25.5 ov), 4-93 (Goodwin, 43.6 ov), 5-151 (Campbell, 74.2 ov), 6-174 (Whittall, 89.3 ov), 7-184 (Price, 97.6 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
WPUJC Vaas	22	5	48	3	2.18
KR Pushpakumara	21	5	39	0	1.85	(3nb)
GP Wickramasinghe	21	6	30	1	1.42	(1nb)
DPMD Jayawardene	2	0	12	0	6.00
M Muralitharan	35	12	52	2	1.48	(5nb)
ST Jayasuriya	8	4	8	0	1.00


Sri Lanka 2nd innings (target: 185 runs)			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	MS Atapattu	c A Flower b Brandes	6	8	8	1	0	75.00
	ST Jayasuriya	not out	16	37	33	2	0	48.48
	RP Arnold	not out	14	28	13	2	0	107.69
	Extras		0

	Total	(1 wicket; 9 overs; 37 mins)	36	(4.00 runs per over)

Did not bat DPMD Jayawardene, TM Dilshan,

RS Kaluwitharana, WPUJC Vaas, SI de Saram, GP Wickramasinghe, M Muralitharan, KR Pushpakumara

Fall of wickets1-7 (Atapattu, 1.6 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
HK Olonga	4	1	11	0	2.75
EA Brandes	4	0	20	1	5.00
BC Strang	1	0	5	0	5.00

Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to field first
Series Sri Lanka won the 3-match series 1-0

Test debut RW Price (Zimbabwe)
Players of the match RP Arnold (Sri Lanka) and A Flower (Zimbabwe)
Player of the series A Flower (Zimbabwe)

Umpires ID Robinson and S Venkataraghavan (India)
TV umpire GR Evans
Match referee JL Hendriks (West Indies)

Close of play
4 Dec day 1 - Zimbabwe 1st innings 178/8 (EA Brandes 1*, BC Strang 3*, 88 ov)
5 Dec day 2 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 159/7 (RP Arnold 65*, KR Pushpakumara 0*, 66 ov)
6 Dec day 3 - Zimbabwe 2nd innings 48/2 (MW Goodwin 15*, NC Johnson 9*, 23.4 ov)
7 Dec day 4 - no play
8 Dec day 5 - Sri Lanka 2nd innings 36/1 (9 ov) - end of match

Match notes

RP Arnold 50 off 140 balls, 7x4
11 overs lost on Day 2, due to badlight, 28 minutes lost
Play will start 30 minutes early on Day 3
A Flower 50 off 184 balls, 4x4