Sri Lankan cricket team in West Indies in 2007-08

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Sri Lankan cricket team in West Indies in 2007–08
Teams
West Indies
Sri Lanka
Dates March 17 – April 15
Captains Chris Gayle Mahela Jayawardene
Number of Tests 2
Tests won 1 1
Most runs (Tests) Ramnaresh Sarwan 311
Shivnarine Chanderpaul 130
Dwayne Bravo 117
Malinda Warnapura 217
Mahela Jayawardene 207
Thilan Samaraweera 187
Most wickets (Tests) Jerome Taylor 11
Fidel Edwards &
Dwayne Bravo 5
Chaminda Vaas &
Muttiah Muralitharan 12
Thilan Thushara 8
Number of ODIs 3
ODIs won
Most runs (ODIs)
Most wickets (ODIs)

The Sri Lankan cricket team will tour West Indies in March and April 2008 and play 2 test matches and 3 one day internationals.

Contents

[edit] Squads

Test Squads
Flag of the West Indies Cricket Board West Indies Flag of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Chris Gayle (c) Mahela Jayawardene (c)
Denesh Ramdin (wk) Prasanna Jayawardene(wk)
Sulieman Benn Ishara Amerasinghe
Dwayne Bravo Tillakaratne Dilshan
Shivnarine Chanderpaul Rangana Herath
Sewnarine Chattergoon Nuwan Kulasekara
Fidel Edwards Muttiah Muralitharan
Ryan Hinds Thilan Samaraweera
Amit Jaggernauth Kumar Sangakkara
Daren Powell Chamara Silva
Marlon Samuels Thilan Thushara
Ramnaresh Sarwan Chaminda Vaas
Devon Smith Michael Vandort
Jerome Taylor Malinda Warnapura
Chanaka Welegedara

[edit] Matches

[edit] Test series

[edit] 1st Test

March 22 - March 26
(scorecard)
Sri Lanka Flag of Sri Lanka
476/8(dec) (162 overs)
vs Flag of the West Indies Cricket Board West Indies
280 (111.5 overs)
Flag of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka won by 121 runs
Providence Stadium, Georgetown, Guyana
Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZL) & Simon Taufel (AUS)
Man of the Match: Chaminda Vaas (SRI)
Mahela Jayawardene 136 (234)
Jerome Taylor 4/110 (33 overs)
Ramnaresh Sarwan 80 (199)
Chaminda Vaas 3/48 (25 overs)
240/7(dec) (57 overs) 315 (106.2 overs)
Malinda Warnapura 62 (91)
Sulieman Benn 3/59 (13 overs)
Dwayne Bravo 83 (169)
Chaminda Vaas 5/61 (22.2 overs)

[edit] 2nd Test

April 3 - April 7
(scorecard)
Sri Lanka Flag of Sri Lanka
278/10 (64.5 overs)
vs Flag of the West Indies Cricket Board West Indies
294/10 (76.2 overs)
Flag of the West Indies Cricket Board West Indies win by 6 wickets
Queen's Park Oval, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZL) & Simon Taufel (AUS)
Man of the Match: Ramnaresh Sarwan (WIN)
Chamara Silva 76 (108)
Fidel Edwards 4/84 (18 overs)
Ramnaresh Sarwan 57 (86)
Muttiah Muralitharan 5/79 (29.2 overs)
268/10 (75.1 overs) 254/4 (68.3 overs)
Thilan Samaraweera 125 (199)
Jerome Taylor 4/52 (15.1 overs)
Ramnaresh Sarwan 102 (172)
Chaminda Vaas 2/52 (17 overs)
  • Part of day 1 was washed out.

[edit] ODI series

[edit] 1st ODI

April 10
West Indies Flag of the West Indies Cricket Board
236/9 (50 overs)
vs Flag of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
235/7 (50 overs)
Flag of the West Indies Cricket Board West Indies win by 1 wicket
Queen's Park Oval, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
Umpires: Clyde Duncan (WIN) & Simon Taufel (AUS)
Man of the Match: Dwayne Bravo (WIN)
Chamara Kapugedera 95 (117)
Dwayne Bravo 4/32 (10 overs)
(scorecard) Shivnarine Chanderpaul 62* (63)
Ajantha Mendis 3/39 (10 overs)


[edit] 2nd ODI

April 12
Sri Lanka Flag of Sri Lanka
112/5 (30.3 overs)
vs Flag of the West Indies Cricket Board West Indies
125/3 (20.3/25 overs)
Flag of the West Indies Cricket Board West Indies won by 7 wickets(D/L)
Queen's Park Oval, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
Umpires: Clyde Duncan (WIN) & Simon Taufel (AUS)
Man of the Match: Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WIN)
Upul Tharanga 40 (82)
Chris Gayle 2/6 (1.3 overs)
(scorecard) Marlon Samuels 54* (49)
Nuwan Kulasekara 3/28 (5 overs)
  • Rain delays reduced Sri Lanka's innings to 30.3 overs and set a revised target for West Indies of 125 from 25 overs.


[edit] 3rd ODI

April 15
Sri Lanka Flag of Sri Lanka
257/8 (50 overs)
vs West Indies Flag of the West Indies Cricket Board
81/2 (18.2 overs)
No Result
Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia
Umpires: Clyde Duncan (WIN) & Simon Taufel (AUS)
Mahela Udawatte 73 (121)
Chris Gayle 2/41 (10 overs)
(scorecard) Sewnarine Chattergoon 46 (53)
Thilan Thushara 1/12 (5.2 overs)
  • Rain in the second innings forced the match to be abandoned.


[edit] Tour Matches

[edit] GCB President's XI v Sri Lankans

March 17 - March 19
[1]
Guyana Cricket Board President's XI bordered
248 (62 overs)
vs Sri Lanka Flag of Sri Lanka
492/5 (dec) (117.5 overs)
Match Drawn
Bourda, Georgetown, Guyana
Umpires: Colin Alfred and Eddy Nichols
Shamarah Brooks 68
Rangan Herath 5/67
Malinda Warnapura 132
Davendra Bishoo 5/144
177/6 (63 overs)

Malinda Warnapura 50
Davendra Bishoo 3/25

[edit] West Indies A v Sri Lankans

March 29 - March 31
West Indies A bordered
vs Sri Lanka Flag of Sri Lanka
Match Cancelled
St. Augustine, Trinidad
Umpires: