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Test no. 1061

Sri Lanka in India Test Series - 1st Test
India v Sri Lanka

1986/87 season

Played at Green Park, Kanpur, on 17,18,20,21,22 December 1986 (5-day match)

Result Match drawn


Sri Lanka 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	S Wettimuny	lbw b Sharma	79	229		13	0
	JR Ratnayeke	lbw b Kapil Dev	93			14	0
	PA de Silva	b Arun	26				0
	AP Gurusinha	b Kapil Dev	19				0
	RL Dias	c Azharuddin b Arun	50	83	59	7	0	84.74
	LRD Mendis	lbw b Sharma	1			0	0
	A Ranatunga	lbw b Maninder Singh	52		36	8	1	144.44
	RG de Alwis	b Maninder Singh	13				0
	ALF de Mel	c Arun b Shastri	25				0
	EAR de Silva	lbw b Arun	21				0
	GF Labrooy	not out	5				0
	Extras	(b 1, lb 10, w 6, nb 19)	36

	Total	(all out; 138 overs)	420	(3.04 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-159 (Wettimuny), 2-217 (PA de Silva), 3-217 (Ratnayeke), 4-286 (Gurusinha), 5-292 (Mendis), 6-355 (Dias), 7-355 (Ranatunga), 8-389 (de Alwis), 9-394 (de Mel), 10-420 (EAR de Silva)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
N Kapil Dev	30	11	81	2	2.70
B Arun	27	7	76	3	2.81
C Sharma	31	4	122	2	3.93
Maninder Singh	32	12	89	2	2.78
RJ Shastri	17	6	37	1	2.17
K Srikkanth	1	0	4	0	4.00


India 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	SM Gavaskar	c Wettimuny b Labrooy	176	506	302	22	0	58.27
	K Srikkanth	c de Alwis b Ratnayeke	18	42			0
	R Lamba	run out	24				0
	DB Vengsarkar	c Gurusinha b de Mel	57				0
	M Azharuddin	lbw b Ratnayeke	199	505		16	1
	RJ Shastri	lbw b Ratnayeke	6	40			0
	N Kapil Dev	lbw b Ratnayeke	163	240	165	19	1	98.78
	B Arun	not out	2			0	0
	Extras	(b 1, lb 11, w 1, nb 18)	31

	Total	(7 wickets; 167.1 overs)	676	(4.04 runs per over)

Did not bat

KS More, C Sharma, Maninder Singh

Fall of wickets1-50 (Srikkanth), 2-100 (Lamba), 3-217 (Vengsarkar), 4-380 (Gavaskar), 5-399 (Shastri), 6-671 (Kapil Dev), 7-676 (Azharuddin)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
ALF de Mel	31	4	119	1	3.83
GF Labrooy	35	4	164	1	4.68
JR Ratnayeke	37.1	2	132	4	3.55
EAR de Silva	40	7	133	0	3.32
A Ranatunga	15	4	58	0	3.86
AP Gurusinha	7	0	42	0	6.00
S Wettimuny	2	0	16	0	8.00

Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to bat first
Series 3-match series level 0-0

Test debuts B Arun and R Lamba (India); GF Labrooy (Sri Lanka)
Player of the match SM Gavaskar (India)

Umpires RB Gupta and VK Ramaswamy

Close of play
17 Dec day 1 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 217/2 (JR Ratnayeke 93*, AP Gurusinha 0*)
18 Dec day 2 - no play
19 Dec rest day
20 Dec day 3 - India 1st innings 74/1 (SM Gavaskar 39*, R Lamba 13*)
21 Dec day 4 - India 1st innings 321/3 (SM Gavaskar 148*, M Azharuddin 59*)
22 Dec day 5 - India 1st innings 676/7 (167.1 ov) - end of match