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Test no. 1775

Sri Lanka in India Test Series - 1st Test India v Sri Lanka

2005/06 season

Played at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai, on 2,3,4,5,6 December 2005 (5-day match) Result Match drawn

	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)

Fall of wickets1-13 (Gambhir, 2.1 ov), 2-45 (Sehwag, 8.5 ov), 3-97 (Dravid, 37.2 ov), 4-108 (Tendulkar, 49.1 ov), 5-109 (Laxman, 53.1 ov), 6-117 (Ganguly, 56.4 ov), 7-118 (Pathan, 57.3 ov), 8-128 (Agarkar, 62.2 ov), 9-159 (Kumble, 72.2 ov), 10-167 (Dhoni, 73.2 ov)

	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
	CM 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, CM Bandara, CRD Fernando, M Muralitharan, J Mubarak

Fall of wickets1-5 (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)

Toss India, who chose to bat first 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) Close of play 2 Dec day 1 - no play 3 Dec day 2 - no play 4 Dec day 3 - no play 5 Dec day 4 - India 1st innings 90/2 (R Dravid 30*, SR Tendulkar 11*, 32.3 ov) 6 Dec day 5 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 168/4 (43 ov) - end of match

Match notes

Day 1 Day's play called off due to heavy rain. Day 2 Play called off due to wet conditions Day 3 Play called off due to wet conditions

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