Sri Lankan cricket team in the West Indies in 2007–08

Sri Lankan cricket team in West Indies in 2008
	West Indies	Sri Lanka
Dates	17 March – 15 April 2008
Captains	Chris Gayle	Mahela Jayawardene
Test series
Result	2-match series drawn 1–1
Most runs	Ramnaresh Sarwan (311)	Malinda Warnapura (217)
Most wickets	Jerome Taylor (11)	Chaminda Vaas (12) Muttiah Muralitharan (12)
Player of the series	Ramnaresh Sarwan (WI)
One Day International series
Results	West Indies won the 3-match series 2–0
Most runs	Shivnarine Chanderpaul (114)	Chamara Kapugedera (135)
Most wickets	Dwayne Bravo (7)	Nuwan Kulasekara (6)
Player of the series	Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI)

The Sri Lanka national cricket team toured the West Indies in March and April 2008 to play two Test matches and three Limited Overs Internationals.

Squads

Tests		ODIs
West Indies[1]	Sri Lanka[2]	West Indies[3]	Sri Lanka[4]
Chris Gayle (c) Sulieman Benn Dwayne Bravo Shivnarine Chanderpaul Sewnarine Chattergoon Pedro Collins Fidel Edwards Ryan Hinds Amit Jaggernauth Daren Powell Denesh Ramdin (wk) Marlon Samuels Ramnaresh Sarwan Devon Smith Jerome Taylor	Mahela Jayawardene (c) Ishara Amerasinghe Tillakaratne Dilshan Rangana Herath Prasanna Jayawardene (wk) Nuwan Kulasekara Muttiah Muralitharan Thilan Samaraweera Kumar Sangakkara Chamara Silva Thilan Thushara Chaminda Vaas Michael Vandort Malinda Warnapura Chanaka Welegedara	Chris Gayle (c) Sulieman Benn Dwayne Bravo Patrick Browne (wk) Shivnarine Chanderpaul Sewnarine Chattergoon Fidel Edwards Runako Morton Kieron Pollard Daren Powell Denesh Ramdin (wk) Darren Sammy Marlon Samuels Ramnaresh Sarwan Devon Smith Jerome Taylor	Mahela Jayawardene (c) Ishara Amerasinghe Malinga Bandara Tillakaratne Dilshan Chamara Kapugedera Nuwan Kulasekara Ajantha Mendis Jehan Mubarak Kumar Sangakkara (wk) Chamara Silva Upul Tharanga Thilan Thushara Mahela Udawatte Chaminda Vaas Kaushalya Weeraratne

Tour Matches

GCB President's XI v Sri Lankans

17–19 March Scorecard

Sri Lankans	v	Guyana Cricket Board President's XI
492/5d (117.5 overs) Malinda Warnapura 132 (184) Shamarh Brooks 1/20 (3 overs)		248 (62 overs) Shamarah Brooks 68 Rangana Herath 5/67 (19 overs)
177/6 (63 overs) Malinda Warnapura 50 Devendra Bishoo 3/25

Match drawn Providence Stadium, Georgetown, Guyana Umpires: Colin Alfred and Eddie Nicholls

• Sri Lankans won the toss and elected to bat.

West Indies A v Sri Lankans

29–31 March Scorecard

West Indies A	v	Sri Lanka

Match cancelled Shaw Park, Scarborough, Tobago

• The match was cancelled due to "flight problems".^[5]

Test series

First Test

22–26 March Scorecard

Sri Lanka	v	West Indies
476/8d (162 overs) Mahela Jayawardene 136 (234) Jerome Taylor 4/110 (33 overs)		280 (111.5 overs) Ramnaresh Sarwan 80 (199) Chaminda Vaas 3/48 (25 overs)
240/7d (57 overs) Malinda Warnapura 62 (91) Sulieman Benn 3/59 (13 overs)		315 (106.2 overs) Dwayne Bravo 83 (169) Chaminda Vaas 5/61 (22.2 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 121 runs Providence Stadium, Georgetown, Guyana Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZ) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Chaminda Vaas (SL)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
• Sulieman Benn (WI) made his Test debut.
• This was Sri Lanka's first win in the Caribbean in Tests.^[6]

Second Test

3–7 April Scorecard

Sri Lanka	v	West Indies
278/10 (64.5 overs) Chamara Silva 76 (108) Fidel Edwards 4/84 (18 overs)		294/10 (76.2 overs) Ramnaresh Sarwan 57 (86) Muttiah Muralitharan 5/79 (29.2 overs)
268/10 (75.1 overs) Thilan Samaraweera 125 (199) Jerome Taylor 4/52 (15.1 overs)		254/4 (68.3 overs) Ramnaresh Sarwan 102 (172) Chaminda Vaas 2/52 (17 overs)

West Indies won by 6 wickets Queen's Park Oval, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZ) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Ramnaresh Sarwan (WI)

• Part of day 1 was washed out.

ODI series

First ODI

10 April Scorecard

Sri Lanka  235/7 (50 overs)	v	West Indies 236/9 (50 overs)
Chamara Kapugedera 95 (117) Dwayne Bravo 4/32 (10 overs)		Shivnarine Chanderpaul 62* (63) Ajantha Mendis 3/39 (10 overs)

West Indies won by 1 wicket Queen's Park Oval, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad Umpires: Clyde Duncan (WI) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Dwayne Bravo (WI)

• West Indies won the toss and elected to field.
• Sulieman Benn (WI), and Mahela Udawatte and Ajantha Mendis (SL) made their ODI debuts.

Second ODI

12 April Scorecard

Sri Lanka  112/5 (30.3 overs)	v	West Indies 125/3 (20.3/25 overs)
Upul Tharanga 40 (82) Chris Gayle 2/6 (1.3 overs)		Marlon Samuels 54* (49) Nuwan Kulasekara 3/28 (5 overs)

West Indies won by 7 wickets (D/L) Queen's Park Oval, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad Umpires: Clyde Duncan (WI) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI)

• West Indies won the toss and elected to field.
• Rain delays reduced Sri Lanka's innings to 30.3 overs and set a revised target for West Indies of 125 from 25 overs.

Third ODI

15 April Scorecard

Sri Lanka  257/8 (50 overs)	v	West Indies  81/2 (18.2 overs)
Mahela Udawatte 73 (121) Chris Gayle 2/41 (10 overs)		Sewnarine Chattergoon 46 (53) Thilan Thushara 1/12 (5.2 overs)

No result Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia Umpires: Clyde Duncan (WI) and Simon Taufel (Aus)

• West Indies won the toss and elected to field.
• Rain in the second innings forced the match to be abandoned.
• Thilan Thushara (SL) made his ODI debut.

References

1. "Sarwan returns for Sri Lanka Tests". ESPNcricinfo. 11 March 2008. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
2. "Amerasinghe gets Test call-up". ESPNcricinfo. 19 February 2008. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
3. "Pollard and Benn picked for one-dayers". ESPNcricinfo. 7 April 2008. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
4. "Jayasuriya left out of West Indies ODIs". ESPNcricinfo. 12 March 2008. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
5. "Sri Lanka's tour game scrapped due to flight problems". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
6. "Sri Lanka create history in the Caribbean". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2017.

External links

• Tour home at ESPN Cricinfo