- Test no. 1024 | 1985 season
- Played at P Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo
- 6,7,8,10,11 September 1985 (5-day match)
| Sri Lanka 1st innings | R | M | 4s | 6s | |||
| S Wettimuny | run out | 19 | 0 | ||||
| SAR Silva† | c †Viswanath b Shastri | 111 | 492 | 0 | |||
| RS Madugalle | lbw b Sharma | 54 | 0 | ||||
| RL Dias | c †Viswanath b Sharma | 95 | 11 | 0 | |||
| LRD Mendis* | c Shastri b Amarnath | 51 | 0 | ||||
| A Ranatunga | lbw b Sharma | 21 | 0 | ||||
| PA de Silva | c Azharuddin b Sharma | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||
| ALF de Mel | lbw b Shastri | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| RJ Ratnayake | c Sivaramakrishnan b Shastri | 7 | 0 | ||||
| CDUS Weerasinghe | b Sharma | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||
| FS Ahangama | not out | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Extras | (lb 3, w 4, nb 15) | 22 | |||||
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| Total | (all out; 156.3 overs) | 385 | (2.46 runs per over) | ||||
| Fall of wickets1-74 (Wettimuny), 2-169 (Madugalle), 3-229 (Silva), 4-328 (Mendis), 5-368 (Dias), 6-372 (de Silva), 7-375 (de Mel), 8-375 (Ranatunga), 9-379 (Weerasinghe), 10-385 (Ratnayake) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| N Kapil Dev | 32 | 10 | 69 | 0 | 2.15 | |||
| C Sharma | 33 | 3 | 118 | 5 | 3.57 | |||
| RJ Shastri | 45.3 | 11 | 74 | 3 | 1.62 | |||
| L Sivaramakrishnan | 31 | 4 | 90 | 0 | 2.90 | |||
| M Amarnath | 15 | 2 | 31 | 1 | 2.06 |
| India 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| LS Rajput | c †Silva b de Mel | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| K Srikkanth | c Mendis b Ahangama | 64 | 1 | |||||
| M Azharuddin | c †Silva b Ratnayake | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| DB Vengsarkar | c Ranatunga b Ratnayake | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| L Sivaramakrishnan | c Wettimuny b Ratnayake | 18 | 0 | |||||
| SM Gavaskar | st †Silva b Ranatunga | 52 | 245 | 166 | 7 | 0 | 31.32 | |
| M Amarnath | c Ahangama b de Mel | 60 | 0 | |||||
| RJ Shastri | c †Silva b Ahangama | 17 | 0 | |||||
| N Kapil Dev* | c Ratnayake b Ahangama | 6 | 0 | |||||
| S Viswanath† | c Wettimuny b Ratnayake | 7 | 0 | |||||
| C Sharma | not out | 4 | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (b 4, lb 6, w 1, nb 4) | 15 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 95.1 overs) | 244 | (2.56 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-0 (Rajput), 2-1 (Azharuddin), 3-3 (Vengsarkar), 4-79 (Srikkanth), 5-88 (Sivaramakrishnan), 6-178 (Gavaskar), 7-218 (Shastri), 8-229 (Kapil Dev), 9-238 (Amarnath), 10-244 (Viswanath) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| ALF de Mel | 31 | 8 | 63 | 2 | 2.03 | |||
| RJ Ratnayake | 25.1 | 5 | 76 | 4 | 3.01 | |||
| FS Ahangama | 18 | 3 | 59 | 3 | 3.27 | |||
| CDUS Weerasinghe | 16 | 7 | 28 | 0 | 1.75 | |||
| A Ranatunga | 5 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 1.60 |
| Sri Lanka 2nd innings | R | 4s | 6s | |||
| S Wettimuny | c Rajput b Sharma | 32 | 0 | |||
| SAR Silva† | c Vengsarkar b Kapil Dev | 11 | 0 | |||
| PA de Silva | b Shastri | 75 | 9 | 2 | ||
| RL Dias | not out | 60 | 0 | |||
| LRD Mendis* | not out | 13 | 0 | |||
| Extras | (b 4, lb 6, nb 5) | 15 | ||||
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| Total | (3 wickets dec; 53 overs) | 206 | (3.88 runs per over) | |||
| Did not bat RS Madugalle, A Ranatunga, ALF de Mel, RJ Ratnayake, CDUS Weerasinghe, FS Ahangama |
| Fall of wickets1-46 (Silva), 2-48 (Wettimuny), 3-180 (de Silva) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| N Kapil Dev | 20 | 4 | 73 | 1 | 3.65 | |||
| C Sharma | 13 | 1 | 55 | 1 | 4.23 | |||
| RJ Shastri | 13 | 4 | 41 | 1 | 3.15 | |||
| L Sivaramakrishnan | 7 | 1 | 27 | 0 | 3.85 |
| India 2nd innings (target: 348 runs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| LS Rajput | lbw b de Mel | 12 | 0 | |||||
| K Srikkanth | lbw b Ratnayake | 25 | 0 | |||||
| M Azharuddin | c †Silva b de Mel | 25 | 0 | |||||
| DB Vengsarkar | c †Silva b Ratnayake | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| SM Gavaskar | c †Silva b Ratnayake | 19 | 0 | |||||
| M Amarnath | c de Silva b Ratnayake | 10 | 0 | |||||
| RJ Shastri | c †Silva b Ahangama | 4 | 0 | |||||
| N Kapil Dev* | c & b Ratnayake | 78 | 0 | |||||
| L Sivaramakrishnan | c †Silva b de Mel | 21 | 85 | 0 | ||||
| S Viswanath† | lbw b Ahangama | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| C Sharma | not out | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Extras | (lb 2, nb 2) | 4 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 66.2 overs) | 198 | (2.98 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-39 (Rajput), 2-39 (Srikkanth), 3-41 (Vengsarkar), 4-84 (Azharuddin), 5-84 (Gavaskar), 6-98 (Amarnath), 7-98 (Shastri), 8-168 (Sivaramakrishnan), 9-169 (Viswanath), 10-198 (Kapil Dev) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| ALF de Mel | 22 | 4 | 64 | 3 | 2.90 | |||
| RJ Ratnayake | 23.2 | 6 | 49 | 5 | 2.10 | |||
| FS Ahangama | 14 | 3 | 56 | 2 | 4.00 | |||
| CDUS Weerasinghe | 3 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 2.66 | |||
| A Ranatunga | 4 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 4.75 |
| Match details |
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Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to bat Series Sri Lanka led the 3-match series 1-0 |
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Test debut
CDUS Weerasinghe
(Sri Lanka) |
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Umpires
S Ponnadurai and PW Vidanagamage |
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Close of play 6 Sep day 1 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 168/1 (SAR Silva 82*, RS Madugalle 54*) 7 Sep day 2 - India 1st innings 6/3 (K Srikkanth 4*, L Sivaramakrishnan 0*) 8 Sep day 3 - India 1st innings 210/6 (M Amarnath 48*, RJ Shastri 15*) 9 Sep rest day 10 Sep day 4 - India 2nd innings 16/0 (LS Rajput 6*, K Srikkanth 9*) 11 Sep day 5 - India 2nd innings 198 (66.2 ov) - end of match |
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Sep 6, 1985 
Rumesh Ratnayake, who took nine wickets in Sri Lanka's inaugural Test win in 1985 © Wisden Cricket Monthly |
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