- Test no. 1445 | 1998/99 season
- Played at Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo
- 24,25,26,27,28 February 1999 (5-day match)
| India 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| S Ramesh | c Ranatunga b Jayawardene | 143 | 317 | 214 | 18 | 0 | 66.82 | |
| VVS Laxman | c de Silva b Perera | 11 | 37 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| R Dravid | c Ranatunga b Hathurusingha | 107 | 314 | 218 | 12 | 0 | 49.08 | |
| SR Tendulkar | c †Kaluwitharana b Vaas | 53 | 94 | 54 | 10 | 0 | 98.14 | |
| M Azharuddin* | c Hathurusingha b Arnold | 87 | 218 | 161 | 12 | 0 | 54.03 | |
| SC Ganguly | c sub (RS Kalpage) b Upashantha | 56 | 209 | 127 | 6 | 0 | 44.09 | |
| NR Mongia† | c de Silva b Arnold | 25 | 75 | 56 | 2 | 0 | 44.64 | |
| A Kumble | not out | 10 | 24 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| Extras | (b 5, lb 6, w 3, nb 12) | 26 | ||||||
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| Total | (7 wickets dec; 142.5 overs) | 518 | (3.62 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat BKV Prasad, Harbhajan Singh, A Nehra |
| Fall of wickets1-20 (Laxman, 7.1 ov), 2-252 (Ramesh, 71.3 ov), 3-288 (Dravid, 78.6 ov), 4-351 (Tendulkar, 90.1 ov), 5-463 (Azharuddin, 125.3 ov), 6-491 (Ganguly, 136.3 ov), 7-518 (Mongia, 142.5 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| WPUJC Vaas | 31 | 5 | 108 | 1 | 3.48 | (1nb) | ||
| PDRL Perera | 30 | 4 | 125 | 1 | 4.16 | (7nb, 1w) | ||
| KEA Upashantha | 28 | 3 | 94 | 1 | 3.35 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| UC Hathurusingha | 18 | 3 | 51 | 1 | 2.83 | (2nb, 1w) | ||
| RP Arnold | 24.5 | 2 | 94 | 2 | 3.78 | |||
| DPMD Jayawardene | 11 | 3 | 35 | 1 | 3.18 |
| Sri Lanka 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| RP Arnold | run out (Dravid) | 34 | 120 | 93 | 5 | 1 | 36.55 | |
| MS Atapattu | lbw b Nehra | 6 | 24 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 46.15 | |
| DPMD Jayawardene | c & b Kumble | 242 | 677 | 465 | 30 | 2 | 52.04 | |
| UC Hathurusingha | lbw b Prasad | 14 | 61 | 39 | 2 | 0 | 35.89 | |
| PA de Silva | b Harbhajan Singh | 23 | 69 | 54 | 4 | 0 | 42.59 | |
| A Ranatunga* | c sub (HH Kanitkar) b Kumble | 66 | 176 | 113 | 8 | 0 | 58.40 | |
| HP Tillakaratne | st †Mongia b Harbhajan Singh | 14 | 105 | 47 | 3 | 0 | 29.78 | |
| RS Kaluwitharana† | b Harbhajan Singh | 23 | 57 | 45 | 2 | 0 | 51.11 | |
| WPUJC Vaas | c Laxman b Kumble | 23 | 93 | 64 | 3 | 0 | 35.93 | |
| KEA Upashantha | lbw b Kumble | 6 | 22 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 35.29 | |
| PDRL Perera | not out | 1 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 11.11 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 19, w 4, nb 9) | 33 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 159.1 overs) | 485 | (3.04 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| BKV Prasad | 31 | 6 | 94 | 1 | 3.03 | (1w) | ||
| A Nehra | 28 | 5 | 94 | 1 | 3.35 | (8nb) | ||
| A Kumble | 54.1 | 10 | 134 | 4 | 2.47 | |||
| Harbhajan Singh | 40 | 9 | 127 | 3 | 3.17 | |||
| SR Tendulkar | 5 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 3.20 | |||
| SC Ganguly | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| India 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| S Ramesh | c Tillakaratne b Upashantha | 30 | 50 | 38 | 5 | 0 | 78.94 | |
| VVS Laxman | lbw b Upashantha | 25 | 111 | 63 | 3 | 0 | 39.68 | |
| SC Ganguly | st †Kaluwitharana b de Silva | 78 | 244 | 167 | 8 | 0 | 46.70 | |
| SR Tendulkar | not out | 124 | 308 | 235 | 10 | 1 | 52.76 | |
| M Azharuddin* | c Arnold b de Silva | 15 | 43 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 36.58 | |
| A Kumble | c Vaas b Arnold | 10 | 36 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| BKV Prasad | not out | 9 | 43 | 52 | 1 | 0 | 17.30 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 3, w 2, nb 9) | 15 | ||||||
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| Total | (5 wickets; 104 overs) | 306 | (2.94 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat R Dravid, Harbhajan Singh, A Nehra, NR Mongia† |
| Fall of wickets1-50 (Ramesh, 9.6 ov), 2-74 (Laxman, 21.5 ov), 3-213 (Ganguly, 64.2 ov), 4-253 (Azharuddin, 78.4 ov), 5-283 (Kumble, 88.5 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| WPUJC Vaas | 18 | 3 | 58 | 0 | 3.22 | |||
| PDRL Perera | 14 | 2 | 60 | 0 | 4.28 | (3nb, 2w) | ||
| KEA Upashantha | 15 | 2 | 41 | 2 | 2.73 | (1nb) | ||
| RP Arnold | 23.4 | 4 | 54 | 1 | 2.28 | |||
| PA de Silva | 18.2 | 2 | 59 | 2 | 3.21 | (2nb) | ||
| DPMD Jayawardene | 14 | 1 | 30 | 0 | 2.14 | |||
| HP Tillakaratne | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to field Points India 5, Sri Lanka 4 |
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Test debuts
A Nehra
(India);
PDRL Perera and
KEA Upashantha
(Sri Lanka) Player of the match DPMD Jayawardene (Sri Lanka) |
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Umpires
RE Koertzen (South Africa) and RB Tiffin (Zimbabwe) TV umpire Saleem Badar (Pakistan) Match referee CW Smith (West Indies) |
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Close of play 24 Feb day 1 - India 1st innings 351/3 (SR Tendulkar 53*, M Azharuddin 19*, 90 ov) 25 Feb day 2 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 121/2 (DPMD Jayawardene 59*, UC Hathurusingha 11*, 37 ov) 26 Feb day 3 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 293/4 (DPMD Jayawardene 128*, A Ranatunga 66*, 95.2 ov) 27 Feb day 4 - India 2nd innings 59/1 (VVS Laxman 17*, SC Ganguly 7*, 13.3 ov) 28 Feb day 5 - India 2nd innings 306/5 (104 ov) - end of match |
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Feb 28, 1999 
Tendulkar guides the ball past slip during his century © AFP |
Feb 28, 1999 
Ganguly off-drives © AFP |
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