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| Venue | P Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo on 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th September 1985 (5-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Sri Lanka won by 149 runs |
| Umpires | SG Ponnadurai, PW Vidanagamage |
| Close of play day 1 | Sri Lanka (1) 168/1 (SAR Silva 82*, Madugalle 54*) |
| Close of play day 2 | India (1) 6/3 (Srikkanth 4*, Sivaramakrishnan 0*) |
| Close of play day 3 | India (1) 210/6 (Amarnath 48*, Shastri 15*) |
| Close of play day 4 | India (2) 16/0 (Rajput 6*, Srikkanth 9*) |
| Player of the Match | SAR Silva |
| Sri Lanka first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| S Wettimuny | run out | 19 | 114 | 144 | 1 | - | |
| +SAR Silva | c Viswanath b Shastri | 111 | 346 | 492 | 11 | - | |
| RS Madugalle | lbw b Sharma | 54 | 176 | 219 | 5 | - | |
| RL Dias | c Viswanath b Sharma | 95 | 162 | 256 | 11 | - | |
| *LRD Mendis | c Shastri b Amarnath | 51 | 75 | 94 | 6 | 1 | |
| A Ranatunga | lbw b Sharma | 21 | 43 | 80 | 2 | - | |
| PA de Silva | c Azharuddin b Sharma | 2 | 5 | 6 | - | - | |
| ALF de Mel | lbw b Shastri | 0 | 9 | 17 | - | - | |
| RJ Ratnayake | c Sivaramakrishnan b Shastri | 7 | 13 | 23 | 1 | - | |
| CDUS Weerasinghe | b Sharma | 3 | 12 | 7 | - | - | |
| FS Ahangama | not out | 0 | 0 | 11 | - | - | |
| Extras | (3 lb, 15 nb, 4 w) | 22 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 156.3 overs) | 385 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-74 (Wettimuny), 2-169 (Madugalle), 3-229 (SAR Silva), 4-328 (Mendis), 5-368 (Dias), 6-372 (de Silva), 7-375 (de Mel), 8-375 (Ranatunga), 9-379 (Weerasinghe), 10-385 (Ratnayake, 156.3 ov) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Kapil Dev | 32 | 10 | 69 | 0 | - | - | |
| Sharma | 33 | 3 | 118 | 5 | - | - | |
| Shastri | 45.3 | 11 | 74 | 3 | - | - | |
| Sivaramakrishnan | 31 | 4 | 90 | 0 | - | - | |
| Amarnath | 15 | 2 | 31 | 1 | - | - | |
| India first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| LS Rajput | c SAR Silva b de Mel | 0 | 4 | 3 | - | - | |
| K Srikkanth | c Mendis b Ahangama | 64 | 58 | 95 | 8 | 1 | |
| M Azharuddin | c SAR Silva b Ratnayake | 0 | 3 | 4 | - | - | |
| DB Vengsarkar | c Ranatunga b Ratnayake | 1 | 9 | 9 | - | - | |
| L Sivaramakrishnan | c Wettimuny b Ratnayake | 18 | 48 | 91 | 2 | - | |
| SM Gavaskar | st SAR Silva b Ranatunga | 52 | 165 | 244 | 7 | - | |
| M Amarnath | c Ahangama b de Mel | 60 | 209 | 314 | 5 | - | |
| RJ Shastri | c SAR Silva b Ahangama | 17 | 41 | 53 | 1 | - | |
| *Kapil Dev | c Ratnayake b Ahangama | 6 | 15 | 15 | 1 | - | |
| +S Viswanath | c Wettimuny b Ratnayake | 7 | 17 | 26 | - | - | |
| C Sharma | not out | 4 | 6 | 6 | - | - | |
| Extras | (4 b, 6 lb, 4 nb, 1 w) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 95.1 overs) | 244 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Rajput), 2-1 (Azharuddin), 3-3 (Vengsarkar), 4-79 (Srikkanth), 5-88 (Sivaramakrishnan), 6-178 (Gavaskar), 7-218 (Shastri), 8-229 (Kapil Dev), 9-238 (Amarnath), 10-244 (Viswanath, 95.1 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| de Mel | 31 | 8 | 63 | 2 | - | - | |
| Ratnayake | 25.1 | 5 | 76 | 4 | - | - | |
| Ahangama | 18 | 3 | 59 | 3 | - | - | |
| Weerasinghe | 16 | 7 | 28 | 0 | - | - | |
| Ranatunga | 5 | 1 | 8 | 1 | - | - | |
| Sri Lanka second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| S Wettimuny | c Rajput b Sharma | 32 | 61 | 87 | 4 | - | |
| +SAR Silva | c Vengsarkar b Kapil Dev | 11 | 45 | 74 | 1 | - | |
| PA de Silva | b Shastri | 75 | 106 | 149 | 9 | 2 | |
| RL Dias | not out | 60 | 96 | 156 | 3 | - | |
| *LRD Mendis | not out | 13 | 14 | 20 | 1 | - | |
| RS Madugalle | did not bat | ||||||
| A Ranatunga | did not bat | ||||||
| ALF de Mel | did not bat | ||||||
| RJ Ratnayake | did not bat | ||||||
| CDUS Weerasinghe | did not bat | ||||||
| FS Ahangama | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 6 lb, 5 nb) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, declared, 53 overs) | 206 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-46 (SAR Silva), 2-48 (Wettimuny), 3-180 (de Silva) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Kapil Dev | 20 | 4 | 73 | 1 | - | - | |
| Sharma | 13 | 1 | 55 | 1 | - | - | |
| Shastri | 13 | 4 | 41 | 1 | - | - | |
| Sivaramakrishnan | 7 | 1 | 27 | 0 | - | - | |
| India second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| LS Rajput | lbw b de Mel | 12 | 58 | 71 | - | - | |
| K Srikkanth | lbw b Ratnayake | 25 | 35 | 73 | 2 | - | |
| M Azharuddin | c SAR Silva b de Mel | 25 | 57 | 80 | 2 | - | |
| DB Vengsarkar | c SAR Silva b Ratnayake | 0 | 11 | 17 | - | - | |
| SM Gavaskar | c SAR Silva b Ratnayake | 19 | 43 | 64 | 3 | - | |
| M Amarnath | c de Silva b Ratnayake | 10 | 19 | 30 | - | - | |
| RJ Shastri | c SAR Silva b Ahangama | 4 | 14 | 29 | 1 | - | |
| *Kapil Dev | c and b Ratnayake | 78 | 98 | 123 | 14 | - | |
| L Sivaramakrishnan | c SAR Silva b de Mel | 21 | 51 | 85 | 2 | - | |
| +S Viswanath | lbw b Ahangama | 0 | 3 | 3 | - | - | |
| C Sharma | not out | 0 | 11 | 25 | - | - | |
| Extras | (2 lb, 2 nb) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 66.2 overs) | 198 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-39 (Rajput), 2-39 (Srikkanth), 3-41 (Vengsarkar), 4-84 (Azharuddin), 5-84 (Gavaskar), 6-98 (Amarnath), 7-98 (Shastri), 8-168 (Sivaramakrishnan), 9-169 (Viswanath), 10-198 (Kapil Dev, 66.2 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| de Mel | 22 | 4 | 64 | 3 | - | - | |
| Ratnayake | 23.2 | 6 | 49 | 5 | - | - | |
| Ahangama | 14 | 3 | 56 | 2 | - | - | |
| Weerasinghe | 3 | 1 | 8 | 0 | - | - | |
| Ranatunga | 4 | 0 | 19 | 0 | - | - | |
Notes
--> CDUS Weerasinghe made his debut in Test matches
--> CDUS Weerasinghe made his last appearance in Test matches
--> LS Rajput made his last appearance in Test matches
--> SAR Silva (1) 50 in 94 balls, 148 minutes with 5 fours
--> SAR Silva (1) 100 in 457 minutes
--> SAR Silva (1) passed his previous highest score of 102 in Test matches
--> RS Madugalle (1) 50 in 164 balls, 199 minutes with 5 fours
--> RL Dias (1) 50 in 93 balls with 5 fours
--> LRD Mendis (1) 50 in 68 balls with 6 fours and 1 six
--> K Srikkanth (1) 50 in 52 balls with 6 fours and 1 six
--> SM Gavaskar did not score for 66 minutes in the India first innings
--> SM Gavaskar (1) 50 in 158 balls, 239 minutes with 7 fours
--> M Amarnath (1) 50 in 190 balls, 275 minutes with 5 fours
--> RL Dias (2) 50 in 81 balls with 3 fours
--> PA de Silva (2) passed his previous highest score of 33 in Test matches
--> PA de Silva (2) 50 in 85 balls with 7 fours and 1 six
--> Kapil Dev (2) 50 in 73 balls, 100 minutes with 10 fours
--> M Amarnath made his debut in Sri Lanka in Test matches
--> L Sivaramakrishnan made his debut in Sri Lanka in Test matches
--> C Sharma achieved his best innings bowling analysis in Test matches when he dismissed CDUS Weerasinghe in the Sri Lanka first innings (previous best was 4-38)
--> C Sharma achieved his first five wickets in an innings in Test matches in the Sri Lanka first innings
--> C Sharma reached 100 wickets in First-Class matches when he dismissed RL Dias, his 2nd wicket in the Sri Lanka first innings
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