Daniboy95
School Cricketer
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India Tour of Sri Lanka - 1996
Started a classic tour of India 1996 (me) to another subcontinent country Srilanka 1996 (AI). The teams are set with all dominant names of that time. (Apologies for the picture quality, as I am doing this in my ps3 and I had to take the snaps with my phone )
India - 1996
Mohd Azaruddin (C)
Sachin Tendulkar
Navjot Singh Sidhu
Sanjay Manjrekar
Anil Kumble
Venkatapathy Raju
Vinod Kambli
Ajay Jadeja
Javagal Srinath
Venkatesh Prasad
Nayan Mongia
Sri Lanka - 1996
Arjuna Ranatunga (C)
Sanath Jayasuriya
Hasan Tilakaratne
Mahela Jayawardena
Chaminda Vaas
Romesh Kaluwithrana
Aravinda De Silva
A Gurusinghe
Roshan Mahanama
Upul Chandana
Muttiah Muralidharan
Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat first.
Mahela Jayawardena opened the innings along with Sanath Jayasuriya (Killer of that time)
Venkatesh Prasad opened the bowling for India and at the other end Javagal Srinath (Bowling spearhead of India) awaiting to attack the openers.
First over went well for India conceding only one run of it.
Jayawardena went on for an early slog only to give an easy catch to Vinod Kambli. Srinath striked in his first over.
Another opener Jayasuriya was also in a hurry to meet his opening partner in the pavilion very soon. The inswing ball from Srinath has destroyed his wicket too.
In the same over De Silva was also dismissed for a misread slower delivery from Srinath which took an edge on its way to the Wicket Keeper.
After loosing three quick wickets, Captain Arjuna Ranatunga wanted to build a partnership with Romesh Kaluwitharana which went for more than 14 overs. It was clear that they didnt want runs but only to slow down the wicket fall.
Azharuddin, dropped an easy sitter from Ranatunga
As the main bowlers were not able to break the partnership, Azhar introduced the "Little Master" into the attack.
Surprisingly, Sachin has delivered what he was called for by penetrating the defense of Romesh
At the end of the first session, the host Sri Lanka are struggling to get their rythm with only 57 runs on board after loosing 4 main wickets
To be continued .....