f29996	Sri Lanka v India
	India in Sri Lanka 1973/74
Venue	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo on 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th February 1974 (4-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	India won the toss and decided to bat
Result	India won by 6 wickets
Close of play day 1	India (1) 283/3 (Mankad 67*, Sharma 60*)
Close of play day 2	Sri Lanka (1) 103/6 (Pieris 6*, DS de Silva 20*)
Close of play day 3	Sri Lanka (2) 154/5 (Tennekoon 75*, Pieris 11*)

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India first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
SM Gavaskar	c Seneviratne b Opatha	6
GK Bose	run out	54
*AL Wadekar	b GRA de Silva	89		190	14	-
AV Mankad	b Pieris	68
PH Sharma	run out	61
BP Patel	c Fernando b GRA de Silva	24
Madan Lal	c Tennekoon b Opatha	15
S Venkataraghavan	c Opatha b GRA de Silva	16
+P Krishnamurthy	b Pieris	0
PM Salgaoncar	run out	1
PK Shivalkar	not out	0
Extras		10
Total	(all out, 132.2 overs)	344
Fall of wickets:
1-17 (Gavaskar), 2-116 (Bose), 3-169 (Wadekar), 4-285, 5-285, 6-316, 7-340, 8-343, 9-343, 10-344 (132.2 ov)

Sri Lanka bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Pieris	34.2	9	81	2	-	-
Opatha	28	8	90	2	-	-
GRA de Silva	41	14	84	3	-	-
DS de Silva	14	3	37	0	-	-
Kaluperuma	14	5	34	0	-	-
Seneviratne	1	0	8	0	-	-

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Sri Lanka first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
SRD Wettimuny	c Sharma b Madan Lal	2
B Warnapura	c Wadekar b Salgaoncar	19
*APB Tennekoon	c Krishnamurthy b Madan Lal	26		65
LRD Mendis	c Madan Lal b Salgaoncar	9
JA Seneviratne	c Krishnamurthy b Salgaoncar	4
+ER Fernando	c Krishnamurthy b Salgaoncar	6
HSM Pieris	c Krishnamurthy b Madan Lal	6
DS de Silva	run out	22
LWS Kaluperuma	c Gavaskar b Salgaoncar	6
ARM Opatha	lbw b Madan Lal	7
GRA de Silva	not out	0
Extras		14
Total	(all out, 55.4 overs)	121
Fall of wickets:
1-4, 2-46, 3-52, 4-64, 5-66, 6-78, 7-105, 8-107, 9-115, 10-121 (55.4 ov)

India bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Madan Lal	25.4	0	59	4	-	-
Salgaoncar	24	9	42	5	-	-
Venkataraghavan	4	3	1	0	-	-
Shivalkar	2	0	5	0	-	-

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Sri Lanka second innings (following on)		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
SRD Wettimuny	c Venkataraghavan b Madan Lal	6
B Warnapura	c Krishnamurthy b Salgaoncar	8
*APB Tennekoon	not out	169			22	1
LRD Mendis	c Shivalkar b Madan Lal	1
+ER Fernando	c Gavaskar b Venkataraghavan	13
DS de Silva	b Madan Lal	26
HSM Pieris	c Bose b Madan Lal	13
JA Seneviratne	c Krishnamurthy b Salgaoncar	31
ARM Opatha	c Krishnamurthy b Madan Lal	0
LWS Kaluperuma	c and b Madan Lal	2
GRA de Silva	run out	0
Extras		21
Total	(all out, 134.1 overs)	290
Fall of wickets:
1-12 (Wettimuny), 2-25 (Warnapura), 3-30 (Mendis), 4-75 (Fernando), 5-118 (DS de Silva), 6-162 (Pieris), 7-229 (Seneviratne), 8-243 (Opatha), 9-289 (Kaluperuma), 10-290 (GRA de Silva, 134.1 ov)

India bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Madan Lal	36	16	43	6	-	-
Salgaoncar	38	13	79	2	-	-
Venkataraghavan	35	6	91	1	-	-
Shivalkar	21.1	6	46	0	-	-
Bose	2	1	4	0	-	-
Gavaskar	1	0	1	0	-	-
Sharma	1	0	5	0	-	-

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India second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
SM Gavaskar	lbw b Pieris	11
GK Bose	lbw b Pieris	5
*AL Wadekar	c and b Opatha	4
AV Mankad	not out	29
PH Sharma	c Fernando b Opatha	15
BP Patel	not out	5
Madan Lal	did not bat
S Venkataraghavan	did not bat
+P Krishnamurthy	did not bat
PM Salgaoncar	did not bat
PK Shivalkar	did not bat
Extras		1
Total	(4 wickets, 21.3 overs)	70
Fall of wickets:
1-15 (Bose), 2-20 (Wadekar), 3-20 (Gavaskar), 4-43 (Sharma)

Sri Lanka bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Pieris	11	1	29	2	-	-
Opatha	9	1	35	2	-	-
GRA de Silva	1.3	0	5	0	-	-

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Notes
--> APB Tennekoon (2) passed his previous highest score of 131 in First-Class matches
--> SM Gavaskar (2) passed 6500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 9
--> PH Sharma made his debut for India in First-Class matches
--> HSM Pieris reached 50 wickets in First-Class matches when taking his 2nd wicket in the India first innings
--> PM Salgaoncar reached 100 wickets in First-Class matches when taking his 4th wicket in the Sri Lanka first innings

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