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Test no. 950

Sri Lanka in New Zealand Test Series - 1st Test
New Zealand v Sri Lanka

1982/83 season

Played at Lancaster Park, Christchurch, on 4,5,6 March 1983 (5-day match)

Result New Zealand won by an innings and 25 runs


New Zealand 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	GM Turner	c de Alwis b John	32	48	36	6	0	88.88
	BA Edgar	c MD Wettimuny b Ratnayeke	39	90	66	5	0	59.09
	JG Wright	b Ratnayake	13	47	31	1	0	41.93
	GP Howarth	c Goonasekera b Ratnayeke	0	9	6	0	0	0.00
	JJ Crowe	run out	12	63	57	1	0	21.05
	JV Coney	run out	84	206	158	8	0	53.16
	RJ Hadlee	b John	12	20	10	1	0	120.00
	BL Cairns	c MD Wettimuny b Ratnayake	3	31	25	0	0	12.00
	WK Lees	b de Silva	89	198	180	8	1	49.44
	MC Snedden	c sub b Ratnayeke	22	51	35	4	0	62.85
	EJ Chatfield	not out	10	45	29	0	0	34.48
	Extras	(lb 14, w 2, nb 12)	28

	Total	(all out; 101.5 overs)	344	(3.37 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-59 (Turner), 2-93 (Edgar), 3-93 (Wright), 4-93 (Howarth), 5-137 (Crowe), 6-159 (Hadlee), 7-171 (Cairns), 8-250 (Coney), 9-292 (Snedden), 10-344 (Lees)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
RJ Ratnayake	31	8	125	2	4.03
VB John	12	2	45	2	3.75
JR Ratnayeke	31	9	93	3	3.00
DS de Silva	22.5	10	41	1	1.79
S Jeganathan	5	2	12	0	2.40


Sri Lanka 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	MD Wettimuny	c Lees b Cairns	17	61	60	1	0	28.33
	S Wettimuny	not out	63	210	139	6	0	45.32
	ERNS Fernando	b Cairns	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
	Y Goonasekera	c Lees b Cairns	4	15	10	0	0	40.00
	RS Madugalle	run out	34	52	52	6	0	65.38
	DS de Silva	c Lees b Hadlee	7	53	46	0	0	15.21
	JR Ratnayeke	run out	0	7	2	0	0	0.00
	RG de Alwis	c Turner b Hadlee	0	2	3	0	0	0.00
	S Jeganathan	lbw b Cairns	6	4	6	1	0	100.00
	RJ Ratnayake	c Coney b Hadlee	1	9	4	0	0	25.00
	VB John	lbw b Hadlee	0	3	2	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(b 2, lb 7, nb 3)	12

	Total	(all out; 53.3 overs)	144	(2.69 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-49 (MD Wettimuny), 2-49 (Fernando), 3-56 (Goonasekera), 4-104 (Madugalle), 5-121 (de Silva), 6-129 (Ratnayeke), 7-133 (de Alwis), 8-141 (Jeganathan), 9-144 (Ratnayake), 10-144 (John)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
RJ Hadlee	13.3	1	33	4	2.44
MC Snedden	10	1	30	0	3.00
BL Cairns	15	6	49	4	3.26
EJ Chatfield	15	4	20	0	1.33


Sri Lanka 2nd innings (following on)			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	MD Wettimuny	c Lees b Snedden	5	29	30	0	0	16.66
	S Wettimuny	lbw b Cairns	7	71	54	0	0	12.96
	ERNS Fernando	b Cairns	46	153	149	6	0	30.87
	Y Goonasekera	c Turner b Cairns	8	23	20	0	0	40.00
	RS Madugalle	c Lees b Snedden	23	77	60	4	0	38.33
	DS de Silva	b Chatfield	52	129	111	4	0	46.84
	JR Ratnayeke	lbw b Cairns	7	33	21	1	0	33.33
	RG de Alwis	c Hadlee b Snedden	3	22	16	0	0	18.75
	S Jeganathan	b Chatfield	8	36	20	1	0	40.00
	RJ Ratnayake	c Howarth b Chatfield	0	9	7	0	0	0.00
	VB John	not out	3	7	7	0	0	42.85
	Extras	(b 1, lb 6, w 5, nb 1)	13

	Total	(all out; 81.5 overs)	175	(2.13 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-14 (MD Wettimuny), 2-26 (S Wettimuny), 3-46 (Goonasekera), 4-95 (Madugalle), 5-108 (Fernando), 6-124 (Ratnayeke), 7-133 (de Alwis), 8-168 (Jeganathan), 9-170 (Ratnayake), 10-175 (de Silva)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
RJ Hadlee	22	12	27	0	1.22
MC Snedden	23	6	48	3	2.08
BL Cairns	20	7	47	4	2.35
EJ Chatfield	16.5	3	40	3	2.37

Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to field first
Series New Zealand led the 2-match series 1-0

Test debuts JJ Crowe (New Zealand); RG de Alwis, ERNS Fernando, Y Goonasekera, S Jeganathan, VB John, RJ Ratnayake and MD Wettimuny (Sri Lanka)
Player of the match WK Lees (New Zealand)

Umpires FR Goodall and DA Kinsella

Close of play
4 Mar day 1 - New Zealand 1st innings 217/7 (JV Coney 69*, WK Lees 20*)
5 Mar day 2 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 141/8 (S Wettimuny 62*)
6 Mar day 3 - Sri Lanka 2nd innings 175 (81.5 ov) - end of match

Match notes

Sl 1st innings
This is the 3rd pair of brothers to have opened in a test, after EM & WG Grace, and Hanif & Sadiq Mohammed.
Sidath Wettimuny was the 1st Sri Lankan to carry his bat in a test innings.

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