🏏 India tour of Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka vs India, 2nd ODI, Colombo🏏 - Page 16

Samarwickrama scores a run, finally!

Aug 4 & Aug 5, 1997 india not able to seprate Roshan Mahanama ( 225)& Jayasurya ( 340) together they put on 576 runs! At Colombo

Before that Nilesh Kilkarni ( ind)Took the wicket with his 🌹FIRST BALL OF HIS TEST DEBUT🌹than next 180 ovs we not remove 2nd wicket till

( 1/39 )- ( 2/615 )

So far 32 bowlers took the wicket to the First ball of the match in ODI ( other than Debut)

( RF : Siraj removed Nissanka today Aug 5, 2024)

Aug 05, 1997 india Bowls 90 ovs at Colombo Conceded

266 for 0 wicket, (Eventually SL innings Ends at 952/6 draw

Ind 437/8 decl sachin 146, MA(c) 126, Sidhu 111)

One Day International (ODI) matches, 32 bowlers have taken a wicket with their first ball. The first to accomplish this was English bowler Geoff Arnold, who bowled Graeme Watson on 24 August 1972. Not all of these bowlers took their first wicket in their debut match.

Resources

Cricinfo & Wisden

89-3 for Sri Lanka, 22 overs gone

Samarawickrama finds the boundary! Four runs

SL's score stands at 94 for 3 after 23 overs

24 overs completed, SL's score reads 98-3

end of over 24

4 runs

SL: 98/3

CRR: 4.08

S Samarawickrama

8 (21)

KIC Asalanka

10 (18)

Kuldeep Yadav

3-0-8-0

Washington Sundar

5-0-22-2

24.1

Washington Sundar to Asalanka, no run, that's a beauty! Lands on middle, Asalanka plays for the angle as he shapes to defend. The ball, however, spins away to beat the outside edge and misses the off-stump by a whisker

SL's score after 25 overs stands at 101-3

SL reaches the 100-run mark