New Zealand cricket team in Sri Lanka in 1992–93

New Zealand tour of Sri Lanka in 1992/93 was the second Test series played in Sri Lanka since 1987.

Unfortunately again, on 16 November 1992 another bomb blast happened near players' residing hotel. However, series went ahead as planned.

Sri Lanka won the Test series 1–0 with 1 match drawn.

The test win at SSC was their 3rd test win out of 42 tests at that time.

Roshan Mahanama was the highest run getter in the series with 291 runs at 97.00.

Ken Rutherford scored the most runs for Kiwis with 196 runs at 49.00

Top wicket taker, Jayananda Warnaweera took 9 wickets during the series and he was picked ahead of young Muttiah Muralitharan in the first match. However, during the second game duo scalped 13 wickets between them to seal the game.

During the 2nd test, Hashan Tillakaratne took 7 catches and scored 93 in the first innings was also a highlight of the series.

Squads[]

Tests		ODIs
New Zealand	Sri Lanka	New Zealand	Sri Lanka
Martin Crowe (c) Adam Parore (wk) Colin de Grandhomme Blair Hartland Andrew Jones Ken Rutherford Chris Harris Justin Vaughan Dion Nash Murphy Su'a Michael Owens John Wright Grant Bradburn Chris Pringle	Arjuna Ranatunga (c) G. Wickremasinghe (wk) Roshan Mahanama Chandika Hathurusingha Asanka Gurusinha Aravinda de Silva Hashan Tillakaratne Champaka Ramanayake Dulip Liyanage Don Anurasiri Jayananda Warnaweera Muthiah Muralidaran	Martin Crowe (c) Adam Parore (wk) John Wright Andrew Jones Ken Rutherford Chris Harris Justin Vaughan Grant Bradburn Dion Nash Murphy Su'a Chris Pringle Blair Hartland Michael Owens Mark Haslam	Arjuna Ranatunga (c) G. Wickremasinghe (wk) Roshan Mahanama Chandika Hathurusingha Asanka Gurusinha Aravinda de Silva Hashan Tillakaratne Dulip Liyanage Ruwan Kalpage Don Anurasiri Pramodya Wickramasinghe Muthiah Muralidaran Jayananda Warnaweera Sanath Jayasuriya

Test series summary[]

1st Test[]

27 November–1 December 1992 (5-day match) Scorecard

New Zealand	v	Sri Lanka
288 (133.5 overs) KR Rutherford 105 (227) DK Liyanage 4/82 (26.5 overs)		327/6d (92 overs) RS Mahanama 153 (297) ML Su'a 2/62 (25 overs)
195/5 (103 overs) KR Rutherford 53 (62) CPH Ramanayake 2/27 (17 overs)

Match drawn Tyronne Fernando Stadium, Moratuwa Umpires: KT Francis and TM Samarasinghe Player of the match: RS Mahanama (SL)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
• CZ Harris, MB Owens and JTC Vaughan (all NZ) made their Test debuts.

2nd Test[]

6–9 December 1992 (5-day match) Scorecard

Sri Lanka	v	New Zealand
394 (128.3 overs) RS Mahanama 109 (154) MB Owens 4/101 (30 overs)		102 (52.1 overs) JG Wright 30 (70) KPJ Warnaweera 4/25 (14 overs)
73/1 (14.4 overs) RS Mahanama 29 (27) MB Owens 1/36 (6 overs)		361 (f/o) (119 overs) MD Crowe 107 (121) M Muralitharan 4/134 (40 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 9 wickets Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: I Anandappa and TM Samarasinghe Player of the match: HP Tillakaratne(SL)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
• The match was scheduled for five days but completed in four.

One Day Internationals (ODIs)[]

Sri Lanka won the series 2-0 with one no-result.

1st ODI[]

4 December 1992 (D/N) Scorecard

New Zealand  166/5 (50 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 41/2 (10.2 overs)
KR Rutherford 36 (69) RS Kalpage 3/29 (10 overs)		PA de Silva 13* (12) C Pringle 2/15 (5.2 overs)

No result Khettarama Stadium, Colombo Umpires: KT Francis and PT Manuel Player of the match: No award

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
• Sri Lanka's target was reduced to 67 runs in 20 overs.
• JTC Vaughan (NZ) and DK Liyanage and AGD Wickremasinghe (both SL) made their ODI debuts.

2nd ODI[]

12 December 1992 Scorecard

New Zealand  190/7 (50 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 192/2 (37.4 overs)
BR Hartland 54 (108) ST Jayasuriya 3/33 (8 overs)		RS Mahanama 84* (109) ML Su'a 1/28 (5 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo Umpires: I Anandappa and SG Ponnadurai Player of the match: RS Mahanama (SL)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.

3rd ODI[]

13 December 1992 (D/N) Scorecard

Sri Lanka  262/6 (49 overs)	v	New Zealand 231 (48.5 overs)
RS Mahanama 107 (132) C Pringle 3/59 (8 overs)		CZ Harris 68* (68) RS Kalpage 3/46 (10 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 31 runs Khettarama Stadium, Colombo Umpires: KT Francis and PT Manuel Player of the match: RS Mahanama (SL)

• New Zealand won the toss and elected to field.
• The match was reduced from 50 overs to 49 overs per side.
• MJ Haslam and MB Owens (both NZ) made their ODI debuts.

Records and statistics[]

Batting[]

Test
Player	Nat	Matches	Innings	Runs	NO	Ave.	SR	HS	100	50	4s	6s
Roshan Mahanama		2	3	291	0	97.00	60.87	153	2	0	38	0
Ken Rutherford		2	4	196	0	49.00	58.33	105	1	1	25	5
Martin Crowe		2	4	137	0	34.25	62.27	107	1	0	12	4
John Wright		2	4	133	0	33.25	25.62	50	0	1	14	0
Blair Hartland		2	4	97	0	24.25	34.15	52	0	1	90	0
ODI
Player	Nat	Matches	Innings	Runs	NO	Ave.	SR	HS	100	50	4s	6s
Roshan Mahanama		3	3	202	2	202.00	73.45	107	1	1	14	1
Asanka Gurusinha		3	3	113	0	37.66	74.34	76	0	1	10	1
Chris Harris		3	3	102	2	102.00	74.45	68*	0	1	4	1
Andrew Jones		3	3	93	0	31.00	51.66	37	0	0	4	1
Aravinda de Silva		3	3	76	2	76.00	133.33	43*	0	0	8	2
Source: Cricinfo[1][2]

Bowling[]

Test
Player	Nat	Matches	Innings	Wickets	Overs	Runs	Econ.	Ave.	BBI	5WI	10WI
Jayananda Warnaweera		2	4	9	107.0	209	1.95	23.22	6/132	0	0
Muthiah Muralidaran		1	2	7	52.1	156	2.99	22.28	7/156	0	0
Dulip Liyanage		2	4	7	64.5	174	2.68	24.85	4/130	0	0
Michael Owens		2	3	7	53.0	200	3.77	28.57	5/135	0	0
Don Anurasiri		2	4	6	88.0	154	1.75	25.66	4/87	0	0
ODI
Player	Nat	Matches	Innings	Wickets	Overs	Runs	Econ.	Ave.	BBI	4WI	5WI
Ruwan Kalpage		3	3	8	30.0	109	3.63	13.62	3/29	0	0
Chris Pringle		3	3	5	23.0	119	5.17	23.80	3/59	0	0
Asanka Gurusinha		3	3	4	23.0	65	2.82	16.25	2/25	0	0
Sanath Jayasuriya		2	2	3	10.0	41	4.10	13.66	3/33	0	0
Don Anurasiri		3	3	3	25.0	100	4.00	33.33	2/45	0	0
Source: Cricinfo[3][4]

References[]

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