- Test no. 1334 | 1996 season
- Played at Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo
- 18,19,20,21 September 1996 (5-day match)
| Zimbabwe 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GW Flower | c Mahanama b Muralitharan | 52 | 180 | 117 | 6 | 0 | 44.44 | |
| MH Dekker | c Mahanama b Muralitharan | 18 | 56 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 47.36 | |
| AH Omarshah | c †Kaluwitharana b Pushpakumara | 1 | 23 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 5.00 | |
| ADR Campbell* | st †Kaluwitharana b Silva | 36 | 92 | 86 | 3 | 0 | 41.86 | |
| A Flower† | run out | 3 | 18 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 | |
| CB Wishart | c †Kaluwitharana b Silva | 2 | 23 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 18.18 | |
| GJ Whittall | c Silva b Muralitharan | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| PA Strang | not out | 2 | 32 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 9.09 | |
| AR Whittall | c Gurusinha b Muralitharan | 3 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 42.85 | |
| BC Strang | c de Silva b Silva | 3 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| HK Olonga | c Mahanama b Silva | 3 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 42.85 | |
| Extras | (b 3, lb 10, nb 5) | 18 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 53.1 overs) | 141 | (2.65 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-43 (Dekker), 2-54 (Omarshah), 3-119 (Campbell), 4-121 (GW Flower), 5-123 (A Flower), 6-125 (GJ Whittall), 7-126 (Wishart), 8-133 (AR Whittall), 9-136 (BC Strang), 10-141 (Olonga) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| WPUJC Vaas | 10 | 1 | 31 | 0 | 3.10 | |||
| KR Pushpakumara | 11 | 3 | 34 | 1 | 3.09 | |||
| M Muralitharan | 20 | 5 | 40 | 4 | 2.00 | (4nb) | ||
| KJ Silva | 10.1 | 4 | 16 | 4 | 1.57 | |||
| PA de Silva | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3.50 |
| Sri Lanka 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| RS Mahanama | c †A Flower b BC Strang | 3 | 20 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 27.27 | |
| ST Jayasuriya | c AR Whittall b PA Strang | 41 | 61 | 46 | 6 | 1 | 89.13 | |
| AP Gurusinha | c Wishart b BC Strang | 88 | 294 | 239 | 8 | 1 | 36.82 | |
| PA de Silva | c & b PA Strang | 16 | 33 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 64.00 | |
| A Ranatunga* | c Wishart b BC Strang | 6 | 33 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 28.57 | |
| HP Tillakaratne | not out | 126 | 409 | 326 | 13 | 0 | 38.65 | |
| RS Kaluwitharana† | c †A Flower b GJ Whittall | 27 | 82 | 56 | 2 | 0 | 48.21 | |
| WPUJC Vaas | st †A Flower b PA Strang | 8 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 133.33 | |
| KR Pushpakumara | c BC Strang b PA Strang | 23 | 112 | 79 | 3 | 0 | 29.11 | |
| M Muralitharan | not out | 1 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | |
| Extras | (lb 4, w 3, nb 4) | 11 | ||||||
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| Total | (8 wickets dec; 133.5 overs) | 350 | (2.61 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat KJ Silva |
| Fall of wickets1-19 (Mahanama), 2-58 (Jayasuriya), 3-86 (de Silva), 4-102 (Ranatunga), 5-216 (Gurusinha), 6-267 (Kaluwitharana), 7-276 (Vaas), 8-340 (Pushpakumara) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| HK Olonga | 26 | 6 | 81 | 0 | 3.11 | (3nb, 1w) | ||
| BC Strang | 20 | 6 | 63 | 3 | 3.15 | (1nb) | ||
| AR Whittall | 31 | 7 | 75 | 0 | 2.41 | |||
| PA Strang | 38 | 11 | 66 | 4 | 1.73 | |||
| GJ Whittall | 16.5 | 4 | 48 | 1 | 2.85 | (2w) | ||
| GW Flower | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 6.50 |
| Zimbabwe 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GW Flower | lbw b Silva | 13 | 71 | 45 | 1 | 0 | 28.88 | |
| MH Dekker | lbw b Vaas | 4 | 20 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 28.57 | |
| AH Omarshah | c Vaas b Pushpakumara | 62 | 302 | 268 | 5 | 0 | 23.13 | |
| ADR Campbell* | c sub (MS Atapattu) b Silva | 4 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 36.36 | |
| A Flower† | c Gurusinha b Muralitharan | 31 | 102 | 93 | 4 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| CB Wishart | c †Kaluwitharana b Jayasuriya | 25 | 68 | 58 | 2 | 0 | 43.10 | |
| GJ Whittall | c Gurusinha b Jayasuriya | 3 | 18 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 30.00 | |
| AR Whittall | b Muralitharan | 12 | 89 | 53 | 1 | 0 | 22.64 | |
| PA Strang | c & b Vaas | 50 | 107 | 94 | 5 | 0 | 53.19 | |
| BC Strang | b Muralitharan | 2 | 17 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 12.50 | |
| HK Olonga | not out | 3 | 36 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 6.12 | |
| Extras | (b 2, lb 6, w 1, nb 17) | 26 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 113.3 overs) | 235 | (2.07 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-9 (Dekker), 2-30 (GW Flower), 3-34 (Campbell), 4-91 (A Flower), 5-135 (Wishart), 6-144 (GJ Whittall), 7-167 (Omarshah), 8-193 (AR Whittall), 9-201 (BC Strang), 10-235 (PA Strang) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| WPUJC Vaas | 26.3 | 11 | 34 | 2 | 1.28 | |||
| KR Pushpakumara | 8 | 0 | 24 | 1 | 3.00 | (1nb) | ||
| M Muralitharan | 41 | 9 | 94 | 3 | 2.29 | (11nb, 1w) | ||
| KJ Silva | 26 | 7 | 49 | 2 | 1.88 | (2nb) | ||
| PA de Silva | 5 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 2.00 | (3nb) | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | 7 | 3 | 16 | 2 | 2.28 |
| Sri Lanka 2nd innings (target: 27 runs) | R | M | 4s | 6s | |||
| ST Jayasuriya | not out | 18 | 26 | 3 | 0 | ||
| RS Mahanama | not out | 12 | 26 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
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| Total | (0 wickets; 6.4 overs) | 30 | (4.50 runs per over) | ||||
| Did not bat AP Gurusinha, PA de Silva, A Ranatunga*, HP Tillakaratne, RS Kaluwitharana†, WPUJC Vaas, KR Pushpakumara, M Muralitharan, KJ Silva |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| HK Olonga | 3.4 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 4.63 | |||
| PA Strang | 3 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 4.33 |
| Match details |
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Toss Zimbabwe, who chose to bat Series Sri Lanka won the 2-match series 2-0 |
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Player of the match
HP Tillakaratne (Sri Lanka) Player of the series M Muralitharan (Sri Lanka) |
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Umpires
KT Francis and CJ Mitchley (South Africa) TV umpire BC Cooray Match referee JR Reid (New Zealand) |
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Close of play 18 Sep day 1 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 86/3 (AP Gurusinha 23*, A Ranatunga 0*) 19 Sep day 2 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 317/7 (HP Tillakaratne 100*, KR Pushpakumara 17*) 20 Sep day 3 - Zimbabwe 2nd innings 162/6 (AH Omarshah 62*, AR Whittall 1*) 21 Sep day 4 - Sri Lanka 2nd innings 30/0 (6.4 ov) - end of match |
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