| Series | Countries | Live Scores | Fixtures | Results | News |
Features
|
Photos | Video & Audio | Blogs | Statistics | Archive | Games | Mobile | ||||||||||||||||||||
| India 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| G Gambhir | b Vaas | 0 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| V Sehwag | c Atapattu b Vaas | 36 | 43 | 28 | 7 | 0 | 128.57 | |
| R Dravid* | c †Sangakkara b Vaas | 32 | 142 | 105 | 3 | 0 | 30.47 | |
| SR Tendulkar | lbw b Muralitharan | 22 | 157 | 126 | 2 | 0 | 17.46 | |
| VVS Laxman | run out (sub [WU Tharanga]/†Sangakkara) | 5 | 64 | 43 | 1 | 0 | 11.62 | |
| SC Ganguly | c Dilshan b Fernando | 5 | 31 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 20.83 | |
| MS Dhoni† | c Gunawardene b Bandara | 30 | 83 | 54 | 6 | 0 | 55.55 | |
| IK Pathan | c & b Muralitharan | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| AB Agarkar | run out (Gunawardene/†Sangakkara) | 4 | 19 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| A Kumble | c & b Vaas | 9 | 37 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 25.71 | |
| Harbhajan Singh | not out | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Extras | (b 12, lb 2, nb 6) | 20 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 73.2 overs; 303 mins) | 167 | (2.27 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| WPUJC Vaas | 21 | 14 | 20 | 4 | 0.95 | |||
| CRD Fernando | 16 | 4 | 58 | 1 | 3.62 | (6nb) | ||
| M Muralitharan | 25 | 6 | 60 | 2 | 2.40 | |||
| HMCM Bandara | 11.2 | 6 | 15 | 1 | 1.32 |
| Sri Lanka 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| DA Gunawardene | c †Dhoni b Pathan | 4 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| KC Sangakkara† | lbw b Kumble | 30 | 73 | 52 | 5 | 0 | 57.69 | |
| DPMD Jayawardene | c Gambhir b Kumble | 71 | 119 | 80 | 14 | 1 | 88.75 | |
| TT Samaraweera | not out | 35 | 97 | 93 | 7 | 0 | 37.63 | |
| MS Atapattu* | b Kumble | 7 | 38 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 35.00 | |
| TM Dilshan | not out | 8 | 14 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 57.14 | |
| Extras | (w 1, nb 7, pen 5) | 13 | ||||||
| Total | (4 wickets; 43 overs; 179 mins) | 168 | (3.90 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat WPUJC Vaas, HMCM Bandara, CRD Fernando, M Muralitharan, J Mubarak |
| Fall of wickets 1-5 (Gunawardene, 0.6 ov), 2-62 (Sangakkara, 14.6 ov), 3-124 (Jayawardene, 28.6 ov), 4-158 (Atapattu, 38.4 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| IK Pathan | 7 | 0 | 43 | 1 | 6.14 | (1w) | ||
| AB Agarkar | 10 | 3 | 29 | 0 | 2.90 | |||
| SC Ganguly | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 8.00 | (2nb) | ||
| Harbhajan Singh | 9 | 2 | 34 | 0 | 3.77 | |||
| A Kumble | 15 | 3 | 41 | 3 | 2.73 | (5nb) |
| Match details | |||||||||||
|
Toss India, who chose to bat Series 3-match series level 0-0 |
|||||||||||
|
Test debut
MS Dhoni
(India) Player of the match WPUJC Vaas (Sri Lanka) |
|||||||||||
|
Umpires
MR Benson (England) and DJ Harper (Australia) TV umpire K Hariharan Match referee CH Lloyd (West Indies) |
|||||||||||
|
| Match notes |
|
|
Dec 6, 2005 The famous Indian huddle © AFP |
Dec 6, 2005 Irfan Pathan picked up the wicket of Avishka Gunawardene early on © AFP |
ICICI Bank M2I. Register Now and Get A Gift Offer.
Safe & simple online money transfer. Apply Now!
Buy Wisden 2013 & get a FREE Playfair
Available now at Cricshop