Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 1985

The Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 25 August to 22 September 1985. The tour consisted of three Test matches and three One Day Internationals (ODIs). Sri Lanka won the second Test of the series.[1]

Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 1985
	Sri Lanka	India
Dates	25 August – 22 September 1985
Captains	Duleep Mendis	Kapil Dev
Test series
Result	Sri Lanka won the 3-match series 1–0
Most runs	Duleep Mendis (310)	Mohinder Amarnath (216)
Most wickets	Rumesh Ratnayake (20)	Chetan Sharma (14)
One Day International series
Results	3-match series drawn 1–1
Most runs	Roy Dias (119)	Dilip Vengsarkar (194)
Most wickets	Rumesh Ratnayake (4)	Chetan Sharma (5)
Player of the series	Dilip Vengsarkar (Ind)

Test Series

1st Test

30 Aug-4 Sep 1985 scorecard

India	v	Sri Lanka
218 (97.2 overs) Sunil Gavaskar 51 Ashantha de Mel 5/64 (28 overs)		347 (144.4 overs) Arjuna Ranatunga 111 Kapil Dev 3/74 (30.4 overs)
251 (119.3 overs) Dilip Vengsarkar 98 Rumesh Ratnayake 6/85 (41 overs)		61/4 (8 overs) Aravinda de Silva 21 Kapil Dev 2/36 (4 overs)

Match drawn Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: HC Felsinger, KT Francis

• India won the toss and decided to bat

2nd Test

6–11 September 1985 scorecard

Sri Lanka	v	India
385 (156.3 overs) Amal Silva 111 Chetan Sharma 5/118 (33 overs)		244 (95.1 overs) K Srikkanth 64 Rumesh Ratnayake 4/76 (25.1 overs)
206/3 d. (53 overs) Aravinda de Silva 75 Ravi Shastri 1/41 (13 overs)		198 (66.2 overs) Kapil Dev 78 Rumesh Ratnayake 5/49 (23.2 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 149 runs P Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo Umpires: S Ponnadurai, PW Vidanagamage

• Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat

3rd Test

14–19 September 1985 scorecard

India	v	Sri Lanka
249 (84.3 overs) Dilip Vengsarkar 62 Saliya Ahangama 5/52 (24 overs)		198 (63.3 overs) Duleep Mendis 53 Maninder Singh 4/31 (12.3 overs)
325/5 d. (84 overs) Mohinder Amarnath 116 Saliya Ahangama 3/72 (27 overs)		307/7 (102 overs) Duleep Mendis 124 Chetan Sharma 3/65 (20 overs)

Match drawn Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy Umpires: DP Buultjens, MDDN Gooneratne

• India won the toss and decided to bat

One Day Internationals (ODIs)

1st ODI

25 August 1985 Scorecard

Sri Lanka  241/6 (45 overs)	v	India 242/8 (44.3 overs)
RL Dias 80 (67) C Sharma 3/50 (9 overs)		DB Vengsarkar 89 (82) RJ Ratnayake 2/35 (9 overs)

India won by 2 wickets Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: HC Felsinger and PW Vidanagamage Player of the match: RL Dias (SL)

• India won the toss and elected to field.
• G Sharma (IND) made his ODI debut.

2nd ODI

21 September 1985 Scorecard

Sri Lanka  171/5 (28 overs)	v	India 157/4 (28 overs)
RS Madugalle 50* (39) RJ Shastri 1/22 (6 overs)		DB Vengsarkar 50 (46) VB John 2/26 (6 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 14 runs P Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo Umpires: BC Cooray and KT Francis Player of the match: RS Madugalle (SL)

• India won the toss and elected to field.
• The match was reduced before play started from 45 to 28 overs per side.

3rd ODI

22 September 1985 Scorecard

India  194/6 (40 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 32/4 (9.2 overs)
DB Vengsarkar 55 (55) RJ Ratnayake 2/41 (7 overs)		LRD Mendis 14* (22) C Sharma 2/11 (4.2 overs)

No result P Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo Umpires: DCC Perera and KT Ponnambalam Player of the match: DB Vengsarkar (IND)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
• The match was reduced before play started from 45 to 40 overs per side.
• Sri Lanka's revised target was 72 runs in 15 overs.

References

1. "The original Indian hero". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 12 September 2017.