Sri Lanka’s First Test Encounter at Lords, 23-28 August 1984, on Video

Lords 1984 ………….  Not many had TV at the time, so these clips are memorable !

http://www.islandcricket.lk/videos/sri-lanka/cricket/sl-cricketers-at-lords-in-1984-famous-bothammendis-battle-and-sidaths-century

 Sidath Wettimuny scored 190 impeccable runs

 Duleep Menids batting in the 1980s

 Duleep hooks

	Sri Lanka 1st innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	S Wettimuny	c †Downton b Allott	190	642	471	21	0	40.33
	SAR Silva†	lbw b Botham	8	17	11	1	0	72.72
	RS Madugalle	b Ellison	5	35	24	1	0	20.83
	RL Dias	c Lamb b Pocock	32	152	104	3	0	30.76
	A Ranatunga	b Agnew	84	248	183	8	0	45.90
	LRD Mendis*	c Fowler b Pocock	111	197	143	11	3	77.62
	PA de Silva	c †Downton b Agnew	16	29	27	3	0	59.25
	ALF de Mel	not out	20	35	25	3	1	80.00
	JR Ratnayeke	not out	5	25	18	0	0	27.77
	Extras	(b 2, lb 8, w 2, nb 8)	20
	Total	(7 wickets dec; 166 overs)	491	(2.95 runs per over)

Did not bat DS de Silva, VB John

Fall of wickets 1-17 (Silva), 2-43 (Madugalle), 3-144 (Dias), 4-292 (Ranatunga), 5-442 (Wettimuny), 6-456 (Mendis), 7-464 (PA de Silva)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	JP Agnew	32	3	123	2	3.84
	IT Botham	29	6	114	1	3.93
	RM Ellison	28	6	70	1	2.50
	PI Pocock	41	17	75	2	1.82
	PJW Allott	36	7	89	1	2.47

	England 1st innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	G Fowler	c Madugalle b John	25	50	41	4	0	60.97
	BC Broad	c †Silva b de Mel	86	341	242	8	0	35.53
	CJ Tavare	c Ranatunga b DS de Silva	14	138	95	1	0	14.73
	DI Gower*	c †Silva b de Mel	55	196	151	5	0	36.42
	AJ Lamb	c Dias b John	107	266	195	10	1	54.87
	IT Botham	c sub (DM Vonhagt) b John	6	7	6	1	0	100.00
	RM Ellison	c Ratnayeke b DS de Silva	41	112	79	7	0	51.89
	PR Downton†	c Dias b de Mel	10	65	53	1	0	18.86
	PJW Allott	b de Mel	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
	PI Pocock	c †Silva b John	2	37	21	0	0	9.52
	JP Agnew	not out	1	6	8	0	0	12.50
	Extras	(b 5, lb 7, w 5, nb 6)	23
	Total	(all out; 147.1 overs)	370	(2.51 runs per over)

Fall of wickets 1-49 (Fowler), 2-105 (Tavare), 3-190 (Broad), 4-210 (Gower), 5-218 (Botham), 6-305 (Ellison), 7-354 (Downton), 8-354 (Allott), 9-369 (Lamb), 10-370 (Pocock)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	ALF de Mel	37	10	110	4	2.97
	VB John	39.1	12	98	4	2.50
	JR Ratnayeke	22	5	50	0	2.27
	DS de Silva	45	16	85	2	1.88
	A Ranatunga	1	1	0	0	0.00
	RS Madugalle	3	0	4	0	1.33

	Sri Lanka 2nd innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	S Wettimuny	c Gower b Botham	13	22	21	2	0	61.90
	SAR Silva†	not out	102	320	255	12	0	40.00
	RS Madugalle	b Botham	3	8	9	0	0	33.33
	RL Dias	lbw b Botham	38	112	79	5	0	48.10
	A Ranatunga	lbw b Botham	0	7	6	0	0	0.00
	PA de Silva	c †Downton b Pocock	3	4	6	0	0	50.00
	LRD Mendis*	c Fowler b Botham	94	123	97	9	3	96.90
	ALF de Mel	c Ellison b Botham	14	12	8	3	0	175.00
	JR Ratnayeke	not out	7	18	15	1	0	46.66
	Extras	(b 5, lb 4, nb 11)	20
	Total	(7 wickets dec; 80 overs)	294	(3.67 runs per over)

Did not bat DS de Silva, VB John

Fall of wickets 1-19 (Wettimuny), 2-27 (Madugalle), 3-111 (Dias), 4-115 (Ranatunga), 5-118 (PA de Silva), 6-256 (Mendis), 7-276 (de Mel)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	JP Agnew	11	3	54	0	4.90
	IT Botham	27	6	90	6	3.33
	RM Ellison	7	0	36	0	5.14
	PI Pocock	29	10	78	1	2.68
	PJW Allott	1	0	2	0	2.00
	AJ Lamb	1	0	6	0	6.00
	CJ Tavare	3	3	0	0	0.00
	G Fowler	1	0	8	0	8.00

Match details

Toss England, who chose to field Series One-off match drawn

Test debut PA de Silva (Sri Lanka) Player of the match S Wettimuny (Sri Lanka)

Umpires HD Bird and DGL Evans

Close of play Thu, 23 Aug – day 1 – Sri Lanka 1st innings 226/3 (S Wettimuny 116*, A Ranatunga 54*) Fri, 24 Aug – day 2 – Sri Lanka 1st innings 434/4 (S Wettimuny 187*, LRD Mendis 100*) Sat, 25 Aug – day 3 – England 1st innings 139/2 (BC Broad 69*, DI Gower 16*) Sun, 26 Aug – rest day Mon, 27 Aug – day 4 – England 1st innings 370 Tue, 28 Aug – day 5 – Sri Lanka 2nd innings 294/7d (80 ov) – end of match

Match notes

General SL 1st innings Wettimuny: 190 runs, 471 balls, 636 min., 21 fours Mendis: The first SL captain to score 100+ while in office Fastest of the 8 SL centuries scored until then (144 min.)