- Test no. 1374 | 1997 season
- Played at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
- 2,3,4,5,6 August 1997 (5-day match)
| India 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| NR Mongia† | c Jayawardene b Pushpakumara | 7 | 58 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 18.42 | |
| NS Sidhu | c †Kaluwitharana b Vaas | 111 | 250 | 200 | 13 | 2 | 55.50 | |
| R Dravid | c & b Jayasuriya | 69 | 250 | 197 | 10 | 0 | 35.02 | |
| SR Tendulkar* | c Jayawardene b Muralitharan | 143 | 292 | 247 | 20 | 0 | 57.89 | |
| M Azharuddin | c & b Muralitharan | 126 | 290 | 199 | 11 | 0 | 63.31 | |
| SC Ganguly | c Mahanama b Jayasuriya | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| A Kumble | not out | 27 | 111 | 76 | 2 | 0 | 35.52 | |
| RK Chauhan | c Vaas b Jayasuriya | 23 | 44 | 49 | 3 | 1 | 46.93 | |
| A Kuruvilla | c Atapattu b Pushpakumara | 9 | 24 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 90.00 | |
| Extras | (b 10, nb 12) | 22 | ||||||
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| Total | (8 wickets dec; 167.3 overs) | 537 | (3.20 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat NM Kulkarni, BKV Prasad |
| Fall of wickets1-36 (Mongia), 2-183 (Sidhu), 3-230 (Dravid), 4-451 (Tendulkar), 5-451 (Ganguly), 6-479 (Azharuddin), 7-516 (Chauhan), 8-537 (Kuruvilla) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| WPUJC Vaas | 23 | 5 | 80 | 1 | 3.47 | |||
| KR Pushpakumara | 19.3 | 2 | 97 | 2 | 4.97 | |||
| DPMD Jayawardene | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3.00 | |||
| M Muralitharan | 65 | 9 | 174 | 2 | 2.67 | (8nb) | ||
| KJ Silva | 39 | 3 | 122 | 0 | 3.12 | (8nb) | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | 18 | 3 | 45 | 3 | 2.50 | |||
| MS Atapattu | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Sri Lanka 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | c Ganguly b Chauhan | 340 | 799 | 578 | 36 | 2 | 58.82 | |
| MS Atapattu | c †Mongia b Kulkarni | 26 | 42 | 31 | 5 | 0 | 83.87 | |
| RS Mahanama | lbw b Kumble | 225 | 753 | 561 | 27 | 0 | 40.10 | |
| PA de Silva | c Prasad b Ganguly | 126 | 293 | 211 | 16 | 0 | 59.71 | |
| A Ranatunga* | run out (sub [A Jadeja]/†Mongia) | 86 | 150 | 110 | 14 | 0 | 78.18 | |
| DPMD Jayawardene | c Kulkarni b Ganguly | 66 | 133 | 105 | 10 | 0 | 62.85 | |
| RS Kaluwitharana† | not out | 14 | 42 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 51.85 | |
| WPUJC Vaas | not out | 11 | 36 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 45.83 | |
| Extras | (b 28, lb 9, w 7, nb 14) | 58 | ||||||
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| Total | (6 wickets dec; 271 overs) | 952 | (3.51 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat KR Pushpakumara, M Muralitharan, KJ Silva |
| Fall of wickets1-39 (Atapattu), 2-615 (Mahanama), 3-615 (Jayasuriya), 4-790 (Ranatunga), 5-921 (Jayawardene), 6-924 (de Silva) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| BKV Prasad | 24 | 1 | 88 | 0 | 3.66 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| A Kuruvilla | 14 | 2 | 74 | 0 | 5.28 | (5nb) | ||
| RK Chauhan | 78 | 8 | 276 | 1 | 3.53 | (9nb, 3w) | ||
| A Kumble | 72 | 7 | 223 | 1 | 3.09 | (6nb) | ||
| NM Kulkarni | 70 | 12 | 195 | 1 | 2.78 | |||
| SC Ganguly | 9 | 0 | 53 | 2 | 5.88 | |||
| SR Tendulkar | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1.00 | |||
| R Dravid | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss India, who chose to bat Series 2-match series level 0-0 |
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Test debuts
NM Kulkarni
(India);
DPMD Jayawardene
(Sri Lanka) Player of the match ST Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) |
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Umpires
KT Francis and SG Randell (Australia) TV umpire PT Manuel Match referee JR Reid (New Zealand) |
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Close of play 2 Aug day 1 - India 1st innings 280/3 (SR Tendulkar 65*, M Azharuddin 18*) 3 Aug day 2 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 39/1 (ST Jayasuriya 12*) 4 Aug day 3 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 322/1 (ST Jayasuriya 175*, RS Mahanama 115*) 5 Aug day 4 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 587/1 (ST Jayasuriya 326*, RS Mahanama 211*) 6 Aug day 5 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 952/6d (271 ov) - end of match |
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Aug 6, 1997 
Sanath Jayasuriya is congratulated on reaching his 300 © Wisden Cricket Monthly |
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Roshan Mahanama on his way to 225 © Cricinfo Ltd |
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