Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 1985

Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 1985

	Sri Lanka	India
Dates	25 August – 22 September 1985
Captains	Duleep Mendis	Kapil Dev
Test series
Result	Sri Lanka won the 3-match series 1–0
Most runs	Duleep Mendis (310)	Mohinder Amarnath (216)
Most wickets	Rumesh Ratnayake (20)	Chetan Sharma (14)
One Day International series
Result	3-match series drawn 1–1
Most runs	Roy Dias (119)	Dilip Vengsarkar (194)
Most wickets	Rumesh Ratnayake (4)	Chetan Sharma (5)
Player of the series	Dilip Vengsarkar (Ind)

The Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 25 August to 22 September 1985. The tour consisted of three Test matches and three One Day Internationals (ODIs).

Test Series

1st Test

30 Aug-4 Sep 1985
scorecard

India	v	Sri Lanka
218 (97.2 overs) Sunil Gavaskar 51 Ashantha de Mel 5/64 (28 overs)		347 (144.4 overs) Arjuna Ranatunga 111 Kapil Dev 3/74 (30.4 overs)
251 (119.3 overs) Dilip Vengsarkar 98 Rumesh Ratnayake 6/85 (41 overs)		61/4 (8 overs) Aravinda de Silva 21 Kapil Dev 2/36 (4 overs)

Match drawn
Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo
Umpires: HC Felsinger, KT Francis

India won the toss and decided to bat

2nd Test

6–11 September 1985
scorecard

Sri Lanka	v	India
385 (156.3 overs) Amal Silva 111 Chetan Sharma 5/118 (33 overs)		244 (95.1 overs) K Srikkanth 64 Rumesh Ratnayake 4/76 (25.1 overs)
206/3 d. (53 overs) Aravinda de Silva 75 Ravi Shastri 1/41 (13 overs)		198 (66.2 overs) Kapil Dev 78 Rumesh Ratnayake 5/49 (23.2 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 149 runs
P Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo
Umpires: S Ponnadurai, PW Vidanagamage

Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat

3rd Test

14–19 September 1985
scorecard

India	v	Sri Lanka
249 (84.3 overs) Dilip Vengsarkar 62 Saliya Ahangama 5/52 (24 overs)		198 (63.3 overs) Duleep Mendis 53 Maninder Singh 4/31 (12.3 overs)
325/5 d. (84 overs) Mohinder Amarnath 116 Saliya Ahangama 3/72 (27 overs)		307/7 (102 overs) Duleep Mendis 124 Chetan Sharma 3/65 (20 overs)

Match drawn
Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy
Umpires: DP Buultjens, MDDN Gooneratne

India won the toss and decided to bat

International cricket tours of Sri Lanka

Test and LOI tours

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