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Test no. 1292

Sri Lanka in New Zealand Test Series - 1st Test
New Zealand v Sri Lanka

1994/95 season

Played at McLean Park, Napier, on 11,12,13,14,15 March 1995 (5-day match)

Result Sri Lanka won by 241 runs


Sri Lanka 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	AP Gurusinha	b Walmsley	2	15	3	0	0	66.66
	DP Samaraweera	c Young b Walmsley	33	123	80	4	0	41.25
	S Ranatunga	c Larsen b Nash	12	22	23	1	0	52.17
	PA de Silva	c Parore b Nash	0	2	2	0	0	0.00
	HP Tillakaratne	lbw b Morrison	9	39	32	1	0	28.12
	A Ranatunga	c Young b Walmsley	55	147	111	4	0	49.54
	CI Dunusinghe	c Rutherford b Larsen	11	40	34	1	0	32.35
	WPUJC Vaas	not out	33	131	95	4	0	34.73
	GP Wickramasinghe	c Fleming b Morrison	13	36	21	0	0	61.90
	M Muralitharan	c Nash b Larsen	8	7	6	1	0	133.33
	KR Pushpakumara	c Larsen b Morrison	1	20	10	0	0	10.00
	Extras	(lb 6)	6

	Total	(all out; 69 overs)	183	(2.65 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-15 (Gurusinha), 2-40 (S Ranatunga), 3-40 (de Silva), 4-54 (Tillakaratne), 5-64 (Samaraweera), 6-88 (Dunusinghe), 7-137 (A Ranatunga), 8-166 (Wickramasinghe), 9-178 (Muralitharan), 10-183 (Pushpakumara)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
DK Morrison	19	5	40	3	2.10
KP Walmsley	17	3	70	3	4.11
DJ Nash	16	4	28	2	1.75
GR Larsen	17	6	39	2	2.29


New Zealand 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	BA Young	c Dunusinghe b Wickramasinghe	2	4	6	0	0	33.33
	DJ Murray	lbw b Vaas	1	16	5	0	0	20.00
	MJ Greatbatch	lbw b Wickramasinghe	1	6	6	0	0	16.66
	SP Fleming	c S Ranatunga b Vaas	35	83	61	5	0	57.37
	KR Rutherford	c Tillakaratne b Pushpakumara	32	177	117	4	0	27.35
	SA Thomson	c Muralitharan b Vaas	8	9	13	0	0	61.53
	AC Parore	c Dunusinghe b Wickramasinghe	7	35	23	0	0	30.43
	GR Larsen	c Dunusinghe b Vaas	0	4	5	0	0	0.00
	DJ Nash	lbw b Pushpakumara	0	20	13	0	0	0.00
	DK Morrison	not out	7	24	10	1	0	70.00
	KP Walmsley	b Vaas	4	6	5	1	0	80.00
	Extras	(b 5, lb 1, w 1, nb 5)	12

	Total	(all out; 42.5 overs)	109	(2.54 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-2 (Young), 2-4 (Greatbatch), 3-6 (Murray), 4-53 (Fleming), 5-65 (Thomson), 6-78 (Parore), 7-79 (Larsen), 8-94 (Nash), 9-104 (Rutherford), 10-109 (Walmsley)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
GP Wickramasinghe	19	7	33	3	1.73	(1nb)
WPUJC Vaas	18.5	3	47	5	2.49
KR Pushpakumara	5	1	23	2	4.60	(4nb, 1w)


Sri Lanka 2nd innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	AP Gurusinha	lbw b Larsen	8	45	39	0	0	20.51
	DP Samaraweera	run out	6	24	14	1	0	42.85
	S Ranatunga	lbw b Larsen	7	29	24	1	0	29.16
	PA de Silva	c Parore b Morrison	62	142	92	9	0	67.39
	HP Tillakaratne	c Young b Nash	74	301	234	8	0	31.62
	A Ranatunga	b Morrison	28	99	64	3	0	43.75
	CI Dunusinghe	b Morrison	91	323	240	8	0	37.91
	WPUJC Vaas	b Walmsley	36	172	124	4	0	29.03
	GP Wickramasinghe	c sub b Larsen	16	57	29	1	0	55.17
	M Muralitharan	not out	10	23	10	0	0	100.00
	KR Pushpakumara	c Parore b Morrison	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(b 2, lb 7, nb 5)	14

	Total	(all out; 144.3 overs)	352	(2.43 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-14 (Samaraweera), 2-21 (Gurusinha), 3-22 (S Ranatunga), 4-121 (de Silva), 5-165 (A Ranatunga), 6-205 (Tillakaratne), 7-294 (Vaas), 8-323 (Wickramasinghe), 9-352 (Dunusinghe), 10-352 (Pushpakumara)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
DJ Nash	36	12	87	1	2.41
KP Walmsley	38	7	112	1	2.94
GR Larsen	39	13	73	3	1.87
SA Thomson	6	3	10	0	1.66
DK Morrison	25.3	5	61	4	2.39	(5nb)


New Zealand 2nd innings (target: 427 runs)			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	BA Young	c Samaraweera b Muralitharan	14	90	64	1	0	21.87
	DJ Murray	c Dunusinghe b Vaas	36	175	114	3	0	31.57
	MJ Greatbatch	c Tillakaratne b Muralitharan	46	82	82	5	1	56.09
	SP Fleming	c Tillakaratne b Muralitharan	0	9	6	0	0	0.00
	KR Rutherford	c Dunusinghe b Vaas	20	58	56	2	0	35.71
	SA Thomson	c Gurusinha b Muralitharan	4	59	42	0	0	9.52
	AC Parore	c Tillakaratne b Muralitharan	17	55	50	1	0	34.00
	GR Larsen	not out	21	91	71	3	0	29.57
	DJ Nash	c Dunusinghe b Vaas	0	31	23	0	0	0.00
	DK Morrison	c Gurusinha b Vaas	0	5	4	0	0	0.00
	KP Walmsley	c Dunusinghe b Vaas	4	2	3	1	0	133.33
	Extras	(b 6, lb 11, nb 6)	23

	Total	(all out; 84.4 overs)	185	(2.18 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-37 (Young), 2-108 (Greatbatch), 3-108 (Murray), 4-112 (Fleming), 5-141 (Rutherford), 6-141 (Thomson), 7-166 (Parore), 8-181 (Nash), 9-181 (Morrison), 10-185 (Walmsley)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
GP Wickramasinghe	13	2	42	0	3.23	(4nb)
WPUJC Vaas	26.4	10	43	5	1.61	(3nb)
KR Pushpakumara	9	2	19	0	2.11	(2nb)
M Muralitharan	36	15	64	5	1.77

Toss New Zealand, who chose to field first
Series Sri Lanka led the 2-match series 1-0

Test debuts KP Walmsley (New Zealand); CI Dunusinghe (Sri Lanka)
Player of the match WPUJC Vaas (Sri Lanka)

Umpires DB Cowie and SG Randell (Australia)
TV umpire EA Watkin
Match referee BN Jarman (Australia)

Close of play
11 Mar day 1 - New Zealand 1st innings 33/3 (SP Fleming 20*, KR Rutherford 8*)
12 Mar day 2 - Sri Lanka 2nd innings 92/3 (PA de Silva 52*, HP Tillakaratne 16*)
13 Mar day 3 - Sri Lanka 2nd innings 253/6 (CI Dunusinghe 50*, WPUJC Vaas 12*)
14 Mar day 4 - New Zealand 2nd innings 139/4 (KR Rutherford 20*, SA Thomson 2*)
15 Mar day 5 - New Zealand 2nd innings 185 (84.4 ov) - end of match

Match notes

Sri Lanka's first overseas victory.