Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2006

Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2006[1]
	Sri Lanka	India
Dates	18 – 22 August 2006
Captains	Mahela Jayawardene	Rahul Dravid
One Day International series
Results	3-match series drawn 0–0
Most runs		Rahul Dravid (9)

The Indian national cricket team visited Sri Lanka in August 2006 to play limited overs matches against the Sri Lankan national cricket team. Only one was played, but with no result, and then the tour was cancelled. The Indian team was captained by Rahul Dravid and Sri Lanka by Mahela Jayawardene.^[2]

Squads

Sri Lanka[3]	India[4][5]
Mahela Jayawardene (c) Kumar Sangakkara (vc & wk) Upul Tharanga Sanath Jayasuriya Tillakaratne Dilshan Marvan Atapattu Chamara Kapugedera Chaminda Vaas Farveez Maharoof Lasith Malinga Dilhara Fernando Muttiah Muralitharan Malinga Bandara Ruchira Perera Prasanna Jayawardene (wk)	Rahul Dravid (c) Virender Sehwag (vc) Sachin Tendulkar Yuvraj Singh Mohammad Kaif Suresh Raina MS Dhoni (wk) Irfan Pathan Sreesanth Harbhajan Singh Ramesh Powar Ajit Agarkar Munaf Patel RP Singh Dinesh Mongia

Tour Matches

50 Overs Match

12 August Scorecard

Sri Lanka A  202/9 (50 overs)	v	Indians 203/7 (44.3 overs)
Upul Tharanga 88 (124) Virender Sehwag 3/16 (7 overs)		Yuvraj Singh 61 (57) Nuwan Zoysa 2/37 (9 overs)

Indians won by 3 wickets Colts Cricket Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Gamini Dissanayake (SL) and Dilshan de Silva (SL)

• Indians won the toss and elected to field.

ODI series

1st ODI

18–19 August 2006 Scorecard

India  11/0 (3.4 overs)	v	Sri Lanka
Rahul Dravid 9* (19) Chaminda Vaas 0/4 (2 overs)

Match abandoned Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Asoka de Silva (SL) and Billy Bowden (NZ)

• India won the toss and elected to bat first
• Reserve day was used for the match after rain and bad light interrupted Indian innings on first day, but it was eventually called off due to heavy rains on the reserve day.

2nd ODI

20 August 2006 Scorecard

Sri Lanka	v	India

Match abandoned Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZ) and Tyron Wijewardene (SL)

• No play was possible due to wet outfield and constant rain

3rd ODI

22 August 2006 Scorecard

Sri Lanka	v	India

Match abandoned Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Asoka de Silva (SL) & Billy Bowden (NZ)

• Match called off due to constant rain

References

1. 'India in Sri Lanka 2006'
2. "India in Ceylon 2006". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
3. "Atapattu back for ODI tri-series". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
4. "Tendulkar and Mongia return to squad". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
5. "India One-Day Squad – India Squad – Unitech Cup, 2006 Squad". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 21 August 2022.

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