Test Cricket Tours - Sri Lanka to Bangladesh 2005-06

Test Cricket Tours - Sri Lanka to Bangladesh 2005-06

Tour of Bangladesh 2005-06          Captain: Mahela Jayawardene

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Sri Lanka’s 37th Test tour
(February - March 2006)

First Test-playing tour of Bangladesh by Sri Lanka
   (no previous tour)

Following postponement of the Asia Cup, Sri Lanka Cricket asked the Bangladesh Board if they could bring their first tour of the newest member of the International Cricket Council forward by ten days and the BCB rearranged the schedule. There were complaints that for the first time a Test series in Bangladesh did not include a match in Dhaka.
The highlights of the series centred around Muralitharan who played in his 100th Test and captured his 600th Test wicket. However, the younger players - Maharoof, Tharanga and Vandort - also showed their capabilities and promise for the future.
Mahela Jayawardene, leading the side in a Test series for the first time, safely saw Sri Lanka to victories by an eight-wicket margin at Chittagong and a ten-wicket margin at Bogra
Bangladesh continued its losing streak. The batsmen again disappointed the home supporters by getting out playing too many rash shots.

Other Sri Lankan Tours

Previous tour
India 2005-06

Next tour
England 2006

Next tour of Bangladesh
2008-09

Members of the Test tour party (15)

Opening batsmen:   Upul Tharanga, Michael Vandort.
Middle-order batsmen: Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara, Thilan Samaraweera, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Chamara Kapugedera.
Wicket-keeper : Prasanna Jayawardene.
Spin bowlers : Sajeewa Weerakoon, Muttiah Muralitharan, Malinga Bandara.
Fast bowlers: Farveez Maharoof, Dammika Prasad, Lasith Malinga, Dilhara Fernando.

H M Bandara
G
26
LB
ODI

T M Dilshan
Bf'd
26
RHB OB deputy WK
ODI

C R D Fernando
SSC
26
RFM
ODI

M D Jayawardene
SSC
28
RHB        captain
ODI

P W Jayawardene
NCC
26
WK

C K Kapugedera
CCC
19
RHB
ODI

M F Maharoof
Bf'd
21
RHB       RFM
ODI

S L Malinga
NCC
22
RF

M Muralitharan
T U
31
OB

K T D Prasad
SSC
22
RFM
ODI

T T Samaraweera
SSC
29
RHB

K C Sangakkara
NCC
28
LHB   WK         vice-captain
ODI

W U Tharanga
NCC
21
LHB opener
ODI

M G Vandort
CCC
26
LHB

S Weerakoon
Brg
28
SLA

Members of the ODI squad
H Fernando
ODI

A Ganegama
ODI

S T Jayasuriya
ODI

K S Lokuarachchi
ODI

J Mubarak
ODI

P R L Perera
ODI




Average age of team at time of first Test match
(28 February 2006) :
   25 yrs 9 months.

Representation of clubs :
Bf’d : Bloomfield (2)
Brg: Burgher CC (1)
CCC: Colombo (2)
G : Galle (1)
NCC: Nondescripts (4)
SSC: Sinhalese Sports Club (4)
TU: Tamil Union (1)

ODI Member of squad for the GrameenPhone one-day series

Key to type :
LHB left-hand bat,
LBG leg break and googly bowler,
OB off break,
SLA slow left-arm bowler,
RFM right arm fast medium bowler

Test Appearances made before the tour

Muralitharan 99, M Jayawardene 74, Sangakkara 53, Samaraweera 33, Dilshan 30, Fernando 20, Malinga 11, Maharoof 6, P Jayawardene 5, M Bandara 4, Vandort 2, Tharanga 1, Kapugedera 0,   Prasad 0, Weerakoon 0.

⋆ Tour Officials

Michael Tissera
Manager
Tom Moody
Coach
Trevor Penney
Assistant coach
Tommy Simsek
Physiotherapist
C J Clark
Fitness trainer
G G T Niroshan
Computer analyst

Selectors

Lalith Kaluperuma (chairman), K M Nelson, Don Anurasiri and Shabbir Asgerally.

Selection

Not considered: Captain Marvan Atapattu (back injury) and Chaminda Vaas were rested because the team had been playing non-stop since November. Jayasuriya, now recovered from his shoulder injury, was picked only for the ODIs and Murali (who had not yet seen his son born while he was in Australia) only for the Test matches.
Tour party announced: 15 February 2006.
Six players would join the team for the Test matches - P Jayawardene, Malinga, Murali, Samaraweera, Vandort and Weerakoon.
Not selected : Russel Arnold, despite topping the averages in a recent tri-series in Australia.

Time between selection and departure from Sri Lanka
2 days
(15 - 17 February 2006)

Travel
Colombo Q Dhaka

Following their return from Australia on Thursday 16 February, the 15-member Sri Lankan team took a very short break at home en route to Bangladesh. Leaving Sri Lanka again on Friday 17 February, they arrived at Zia International Airport, Dhaka, later that morning and, after lunch, left by coach for Bogra in the north, for the first two one-dayers to be held at the new venue.

Time spent in Bangladesh
   24 days
(17 February - 13 March)

On-tour selection panel

Manager Michael Tissera (chair), Tom Moody (coach), Mahela Jayawardene (captain) and Kumar Sangakkara (vice-captain).

Reinforcements

None required - on the contrary, three members of the tour party did not play in any match

Fixtures/Results

a
§ Bogra
Bangladesh (1st ODI)
Won by 5 w
b
§ Bogra
Bangladesh (2nd ODI)
Lost 4 w
c
§ Chittagong
Bangladesh (3rd ODI)
Won 78 r
d
CHITTAGONG
BANGLADESH   First Test
WON 8 w
e
BOGRA
BANGLADESH   Second Test
WON 10 w

§ one-day international

Time spent in Bangladesh before First Test:
      11 days
(17 February - 28 February)

Test appearances on tour

2 - Bandara, Dilshan, Fernando, M.Jayawardene, Maharoof, Malinga, Muralitharan, Samaraweera, Sangakkara, Tharanga, Vandort.
0 -   P Jayawardene, Kapugedera, Prasad, Weerakoon.

Match appearances

T Test match
o one-day international
x other match
⊕ T/20 international

W won L lost D drawn   N no result   A abandoned   u unknown result

a
b
c
d
e
C M Bandara
o
o
o
T
T
T M Dilshan
o
o
o
T
T
C R D Fernando
o
o

T
T
H Fernando
o
o

A Ganegama

S T Jayasuriya
o
o
o

M D Jayawardene
o
o
o
T
T
P W Jayawardene

C K Kapugedera
o
o
o

K S Lokuarachchi

o

M F Maharoof
o
o
o
T
T
S L Malinga

T
T
J Mubarak
o
o

M Muralitharan

T
T
P R L Perera
o
o
o

K T D Prasad

o

T T Samaraweera

T
T
K C Sangakkara
o
o
o
T
T
W U Tharanga

o
T
T
M G Vandort

T
T
S Weerakoon

R E S U L T S
W
L
W
W
W

Highlights

• Muralitharan captured his thousandth international wicket while playing in his hundredth Test match
• He then took his 600th Test wicket in the next match at Bogra
• Upul Tharanga scored his maiden Test hundred at Bogra, and followed up with 71 in the 2nd innings.

Tour Summary

F
W
L
D
Aban
Test Matches
2
2
0
0
-
Other first-class matches
0
-
-
-
-
ϯ Minor matches
0
-
-
-
-
§ One-day internationals
3
2
1
0
-
All Matches
5
4
1
0
-

F Fixtures   W Won   L Lost   D Drawn   T Tied Canc Cancelled Aban abandoned

Return to Sri Lanka

Dhaka Q Colombo

Persistent rain delayed the inevitable result of the final Test match for seven hours and spoiled the plans to catch an early flight back home. Return to Colombo was on Monday 13 March
There was little time for rest at home as they were scheduled to play their first one-day match against Pakistan on 17 March.

Time away from Sri Lanka
    24 days
(17 February to 13 March)

Postscript

……..

Other Test tours in 2005-06

Australians to South Africa & Bangladesh 2005-06 - captain Ricky Ponting
England to Pakistan 2005-06 - captain Michael Vaughan
England to India 2005-06 - captain Andrew Flintoff
Indians to Pakistan 2005-06 - captain Rahul Dravid
New Zealanders to South Africa 2005-06 - captain Stephen Fleming
Pakistanis to Sri Lanka 2005-06 - captain Inzamamul Haq
South Africans to Australia 2005-06 - captain Graeme Smith
Sri Lankans to India 2005-06 - captain Marvan Atapattu
West Indians to Australia 2005-06 - captain Shiv Chanderpaul
West Indians to New Zealand 2005-06 - captain Shiv Chanderpaul

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Acknowledgements
To general reading of The Times newspaper digital archive (Gale Group); Jamaica Gleanor archive; National Library of Australia Trove; Papers Past NZ.
From former British Newspaper Library, Colindale and online: The Age, Melbourne Argus, Bangladesh Daily Star, Barbados Advocate, Canberra Times, Daily Telegraph, Dawn, Eastern Daily Press, The Hindu, The Independent (Dhaka), Indian Express, The Island (Lanka), Lahore Times, New Nation, New Zealand Auckland Herald, Sri Lanka Daily News, Stabroek News, Straits Times, Sydney Morning Herald, The Telegraph (Calcutta), Times of India , The Tribune Chandigarh, Trinidad Guardian, The West Australian.
cricketweb.net; ESPN cricinfo; cricket archive; www.cricketcountry; www.coverpoint
Magazines/periodicals including Australian Cricket, B & H West Indies Annual, The Cricketer International, Cricketer Quarterly, Indian Cricket, Indian Cricket Field Annual, Playfair Cricket Monthly, Shell Cricket Almanack of New Zealand, Wisden Cricket Monthly, Wisden Book of Test Cricket, Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack.
Men In White, A History of Australian Cricket (Harte), A History of Indian Cricket (Bose), A History of West Indies Cricket (Manley)
Biography and tour books (own collection and at the M.C.C. Library at Lord’s Ground)                                    © ALL CONTENTS OF THE TEST-CRICKET-TOURS.CO.UK WEBSITE ARE COPYRIGHT