India v Sri Lanka, Ahmedabad

India 426/10 & 412/4

Sri Lanka 760/7

Match drawn

India v Sri Lanka 2009 · 1st Test Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad 16–20 Nov 2009

How hard each side found the batting

Even conditions — a fairly typical match for batting, both sides much alike.

India

0.99× -1%

Sri Lanka

1.01× +1%

harder to scoretypicaleasier

The lead

On equal conditions, India led by more than the scoreboard showed.

Who won it · by value

Runs, and what they were worth in these conditions

DPMD Jayawardene Sri Lanka

275 +372

R Dravid India

215 +347

HAPW Jayawardene Sri Lanka

154 +202

MS Dhoni India

110 +188

G Gambhir India

115 +129

Best bowling

Top match figures

UWMBCA Welegedara4/87

M Muralitharan3/97

HMRKB Herath2/97

KTGD Prasad2/106

Top score

275

DPMD Jayawardene · Sri Lanka

Biggest stand

351

6th wkt · Sri Lanka

Worst collapse

3–18

3 wkts for 18 · India

Match facts

TossIndia, bat

ResultMatch drawn

Length5 days

India

426 /10 (104.5 ov)

Batter		R	B	4s	6s	SR
G Gambhir	b UWMBCA Welegedara	1	10	0	0	10.00
V Sehwag	lbw b UWMBCA Welegedara	16	11	3	0	145.45
R Dravid	b UWMBCA Welegedara	177	261	26	1	67.82
Sachin Tendulkar	b UWMBCA Welegedara	4	3	1	0	133.33
VVS Laxman	b KTGD Prasad	0	4	0	0	0.00
Yuvraj Singh	c TM Dilshan b M Muralitharan	68	93	13	0	73.12
MS Dhoni	c HAPW Jayawardene b KTGD Prasad	110	159	10	1	69.18
Harbhajan Singh	b M Muralitharan	22	54	2	0	40.74
Z Khan	lbw b HMRKB Herath	12	29	2	0	41.38
A Mishra*	not out	7	5	1	0	140.00
I Sharma	st HAPW Jayawardene b M Muralitharan	0	4	0	0	0.00

Extras 9 (b 2, lb 2, w 1, nb 4)

Total 426/10 (104.5 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
UWMBCA Welegedara	22.0	4	87	4	3.95
KTGD Prasad	22.0	1	106	2	4.82
AD Mathews	12.0	1	50	0	4.17
M Muralitharan	25.5	5	97	3	3.75
HMRKB Herath	22.0	2	79	1	3.59
TM Dilshan	1.0	0	3	0	3.00

Fall of wickets

1-14 (G Gambhir, 2.5)·2-27 (V Sehwag, 6.1)·3-31 (Sachin Tendulkar, 6.4)·4-32 (VVS Laxman, 7.4)·5-157 (Yuvraj Singh, 36.1)·6-381 (MS Dhoni, 87.1)·7-389 (R Dravid, 92.4)·8-414 (Z Khan, 101.2)·9-426 (Harbhajan Singh, 104.1)·10-426 (I Sharma, 104.5)

Sri Lanka

760 /7 (202.4 ov)

Batter		R	B	4s	6s	SR
TM Dilshan	c R Dravid b Z Khan	112	133	12	0	84.21
NT Paranavitana	c MS Dhoni b I Sharma	35	55	6	0	63.64
KC Sangakkara	c Sachin Tendulkar b Z Khan	31	85	3	0	36.47
DPMD Jayawardene	b A Mishra	275	435	27	1	63.22
TT Samaraweera	c Yuvraj Singh b I Sharma	70	145	9	0	48.28
AD Mathews	c G Gambhir b Harbhajan Singh	17	34	1	1	50.00
HAPW Jayawardene*	not out	154	314	11	0	49.04
KTGD Prasad	c A Mishra b Harbhajan Singh	21	35	2	0	60.00

Extras 45 (b 5, lb 16, w 4, nb 20)

Total 760/7 (202.4 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
Z Khan	36.0	6	109	2	3.03
I Sharma	33.0	0	135	2	4.09
Harbhajan Singh	48.4	5	189	2	3.88
A Mishra	58.0	6	203	1	3.50
Yuvraj Singh	16.0	1	64	0	4.00
Sachin Tendulkar	7.0	0	20	0	2.86
V Sehwag	4.0	1	19	0	4.75

Fall of wickets

1-74 (NT Paranavitana, 16.5)·2-189 (TM Dilshan, 43.1)·3-194 (KC Sangakkara, 45.3)·4-332 (TT Samaraweera, 86.4)·5-375 (AD Mathews, 96.2)·6-726 (DPMD Jayawardene, 193.5)·7-760 (KTGD Prasad, 202.4)

India

412 /4 (129.0 ov)

Batter		R	B	4s	SR
G Gambhir	c KTGD Prasad b HMRKB Herath	114	230	13	49.57
V Sehwag	c AD Mathews b HMRKB Herath	51	67	7	76.12
R Dravid	lbw b UWMBCA Welegedara	38	66	6	57.58
A Mishra	c TM Dilshan b AD Mathews	24	51	4	47.06
Sachin Tendulkar*	not out	100	211	11	47.39
VVS Laxman*	not out	51	160	5	31.88

Extras 34 (b 12, lb 9, w 2, nb 11)

Total 412/4 (129.0 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
UWMBCA Welegedara	21.0	1	76	1	3.62
KTGD Prasad	13.0	0	56	0	4.31
HMRKB Herath	40.0	6	97	2	2.42
M Muralitharan	38.0	6	124	0	3.26
AD Mathews	15.0	6	29	1	1.93
TM Dilshan	1.0	0	2	0	2.00
NT Paranavitana	1.0	0	7	0	7.00

Fall of wickets

1-81 (V Sehwag, 16.6)·2-169 (R Dravid, 40.1)·3-209 (A Mishra, 55.6)·4-275 (G Gambhir, 79.6)