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ODI No. 68

1979 Cricket World Cup
1979 season
India vs Sri Lanka - 9th Match, Group B
16-18 June, 1979 (60-over match)
Venue : Old Trafford, Manchester
Toss : India won the toss and elected to field first
Result : Sri Lanka won by 47 runs


Sri Lanka innings
(60 overs maximum)
R 
B 
4s 
6s
SR 
»
 Bandula Warnapura c Gaekwad b Amarnath
18 
51 
2 
0
35.29 
»
 Sunil Wettimuny c Vengsarkar b Kapil Dev
67 
120 
8 
0
55.83 
»
 Roy Dias c & b Amarnath
50 
88 
2 
0
56.82 
»
 Duleep Mendis run out
64 
57 
1 
3
112.28 
»
 Ranjan Madugalle c Khanna b Amarnath
4 
16 
0 
0
25.00 
»
 Sudath Pasqual Not Out
23 
26 
1 
0
88.46 
»
 Somachandra de Silva Not Out
1 
4 
0 
0
25.00 
Extras LB 8, W 2, N 1
11
Total : (5 wickets in 60.0 overs)
238
 RR : 3.97

did not bat: Sunil Jayasinghe, Tony Opatha, Stanley de Silva, Ranjan Gunatilleke

Fall of wickets : 1-31 (Warnapura), 2-127 (Wettimuny), 3-147 (Dias), 4-175 (Madugalle), 5-227 (Mendis)

Bowlers
O
M
R
W
RPO
NB
Wd
  
»
 Kapil Dev
12
2 
53 
1
4.42
0
0
»
 Karsan Ghavri
12
0 
53 
0
4.42
0
0
»
 Mohinder Amarnath
12
3 
40 
3
3.33
0
0
»
 Bishan Bedi
12
3 
37 
0
3.08
0
0
»
 Srinivas Venkataraghavan
12
0 
44 
0
3.67
0
0

India innings
(Target: 239 runs in 60 overs)
R 
B 
4s 
6s
SR 
»
 Sunil Gavaskar c Dias b Warnapura
26 
54 
2 
0
48.15 
»
 Anshuman Gaekwad c de Silva b de Silva
33 
52 
2 
0
63.46 
»
 Dilip Vengsarkar c de Silva b de Silva
36 
57 
3 
0
63.16 
»
 Gundappa Viswanath run out
22 
55 
0 
0
40.00 
»
 Brijesh Patel b de Silva
10 
13 
1 
0
76.92 
»
 Kapil Dev c Warnapura b de Silva
16 
19 
2 
0
84.21 
»
 Mohinder Amarnath b de Silva
7 
15 
0 
0
46.67 
»
 Karsan Ghavri c Warnapura b Opatha
3 
8 
0 
0
37.50 
»
 Surinder Khanna c Dias b Opatha
10 
17 
1 
0
58.82 
»
 Srinivas Venkataraghavan Not Out
9 
9 
0 
0
100.00 
»
 Bishan Bedi c Jayasinghe b Opatha
5 
8 
0 
0
62.50 
Extras LB 10, W 3, N 1
14
Total : (all out in 54.1 overs)
191
 RR : 3.53

Fall of wickets : 1-60 (Gavaskar), 2-76 (Gaekwad), 3-119 (Viswanath), 4-132 (Patel), 5-147 (Vengsarkar), 6-160 (Kapil Dev), 7-162 (Amarnath), 8-170 (Ghavri), 9-185 (Khanna), 10-191 (Bedi)

Bowlers
O
M
R
W
RPO
NB
Wd
  
»
 Tony Opatha
10
 .1
0 
31 
3
3.05
0
0
»
 Ranjan Gunatilleke
9
1 
34 
0
3.78
0
0
»
 Bandula Warnapura
12
0 
47 
1
3.92
0
0
»
 Stanley de Silva
12
0 
36 
2
3.00
0
0
»
 Somachandra de Silva
11
1 
29 
3
2.64
0
0

Match details
Points: Sri Lanka 4, India 0
Debuts: FRMD Gunatilleke and RS Madugalle (Sri Lanka)
Man of the Match: LRD Mendis (Sri Lanka)
Umpires : KE Palmer and AGT Whitehead

Teams:
India Sunil Gavaskar, Anshuman Gaekwad, Dilip Vengsarkar, Gundappa Viswanath, Brijesh Patel, Kapil Dev, Mohinder Amarnath, Karsan Ghavri, Surinder Khanna (wk), Bishan Bedi, Srinivas Venkataraghavan (Capt.)
Sri Lanka Bandula Warnapura (Capt.), Sunil Wettimuny, Roy Dias, Duleep Mendis, Ranjan Madugalle, Sudath Pasqual, Somachandra de Silva, Sunil Jayasinghe (wk), Tony Opatha, Stanley de Silva, Ranjan Gunatilleke
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