- Test no. 1387 | 1997/98 season
- Played at Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
- 26,27,28,29,30 November 1997 (5-day match)
| India 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| NR Mongia† | c Muralitharan b Pushpakumara | 11 | 18 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 64.70 | |
| NS Sidhu | c Atapattu b Vaas | 79 | 214 | 162 | 13 | 1 | 48.76 | |
| R Dravid | c Atapattu b Vaas | 92 | 330 | 221 | 10 | 1 | 41.62 | |
| SR Tendulkar* | b Pushpakumara | 15 | 38 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 75.00 | |
| M Azharuddin | lbw b Pushpakumara | 62 | 139 | 121 | 6 | 0 | 51.23 | |
| SC Ganguly | c Tillakaratne b Pushpakumara | 99 | 309 | 188 | 13 | 0 | 52.65 | |
| A Kumble | run out (Ranatunga) | 78 | 219 | 191 | 8 | 0 | 40.83 | |
| J Srinath | lbw b Jayasuriya | 11 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| RK Chauhan | c Vaas b Jayasuriya | 1 | 18 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 7.69 | |
| A Kuruvilla | lbw b Pushpakumara | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| NM Kulkarni | not out | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| Extras | (b 8, lb 13, w 3, nb 12) | 36 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 155 overs) | 485 | (3.12 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-15 (Mongia), 2-152 (Sidhu), 3-182 (Tendulkar), 4-272 (Dravid), 5-303 (Azharuddin), 6-462 (Kumble), 7-476 (Srinath), 8-484 (Chauhan), 9-484 (Ganguly), 10-485 (Kuruvilla) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| WPUJC Vaas | 31 | 3 | 80 | 2 | 2.58 | (3nb) | ||
| KR Pushpakumara | 32 | 3 | 122 | 5 | 3.81 | (6nb) | ||
| KJ Silva | 28 | 6 | 81 | 0 | 2.89 | (2nb, 1w) | ||
| M Muralitharan | 46 | 9 | 137 | 0 | 2.97 | (7nb) | ||
| A Ranatunga | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8.00 | |||
| ST Jayasuriya | 16 | 4 | 32 | 2 | 2.00 | |||
| MS Atapattu | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4.00 | (2w) |
| Sri Lanka team | ||||
| ST Jayasuriya, MS Atapattu, RS Mahanama, PA de Silva, A Ranatunga*, HP Tillakaratne, SKL de Silva†, WPUJC Vaas, KR Pushpakumara, M Muralitharan, KJ Silva |
| Match details |
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Toss India, who chose to bat Series 3-match series level 0-0 |
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Umpires
CJ Mitchley (South Africa) and VK Ramaswamy TV umpire PS Godbole Match referee RB Simpson (Australia) |
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Close of play 26 Nov day 1 - India 1st innings 133/1 (NS Sidhu 64*, R Dravid 47*, 41 ov) 27 Nov day 2 - India 1st innings 401/5 (SC Ganguly 67*, A Kumble 42*, 131 ov) 28 Nov day 3 - India 1st innings 485 29 Nov day 4 - no play 30 Nov day 5 - India 1st innings 485 (155 ov) - end of match |
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