Sri Lankan cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2004
International cricket tour
| Sri Lankans in Zimbabwe 2004 | |||
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| Zimbabwe | Sri Lanka | ||
| Dates | 20 April 2004 – 17 May 2004 | ||
| Captains | Tatenda Taibu | Marvan Atapattu Mahela Jayawardene (4th ODI) | |
| Test series | |||
| Result | Sri Lanka won the 2-match series 2–0 | ||
| Most runs | Dion Ebrahim (115) | Marvan Atapattu (419) | |
| Most wickets | Tinashe Panyangara (4) | Muttiah Muralitharan (14) | |
| Player of the series | Marvan Atapattu (Sri Lanka) | ||
| One Day International series | |||
| Results | Sri Lanka won the 5-match series 5–0 | ||
| Most runs | Tatenda Taibu (169) | Kumar Sangakkara (136) | |
| Most wickets | Tawanda Mupariwa (4) | Muttiah Muralitharan (10) | |
| Player of the series | Tatenda Taibu (Zimbabwe) | ||
The Sri Lanka national cricket team toured Zimbabwe in April and May 2004 to play 2 Test matches and 5 Limited Overs Internationals.[1] The next time Zimbabwe played Sri Lanka in a Test match was in October 2016.[2]
The series was preceded by a massive crisis rocking Zimbabwe cricket, with captain Heath Streak sacked and dropped from the team for criticising the Zimbabwe Cricket Union (ZCU) and several of its policies, including the quota system for non-white cricketers and politicisation of the sport among others.[3] Subsequently, thirteen leading Zimbabwean cricketers, all of them white, rebelled and made themselves unavailable for selection in protest against the treatment meted out to Streak by the ZCU.[4] As a result, a second-string side led by wicketkeeper Tatenda Taibu and comprising mostly black cricketers was selected to face Sri Lanka.[4] The side proved to be clearly uncompetitive as the Lankans whitewashed them in both the ODIs and Tests by margins of 5-0 and 2-0 respectively, winning all matches by heavy margins and winning both Tests by an innings.
Due to the shambolic performance by the Zimbabweans, the ZCU scrapped all Test matches involving Zimbabwe for the rest of the year.[5] The series marked the start of the downfall for Zimbabwe cricket which continues to this day.[6][7]
Squads
ODI series
1st ODI
20 April 2004 Scorecard |
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Sri Lanka won by 12 runs (D/L method) Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo Umpires: KC Barbour (ZIM) and DJ Harper (AUS) Player of the match: T Taibu (ZIM) |
- Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
- Sri Lankan innings reduced to 33 overs. Target 173.
- Sri Lankan innings further reduced to 27 overs. When play was halted Sri Lanka needed to have scored 133 runs to win.
- E Chigumbura, T Panyangara, BRM Taylor and P Utseya (all ZIM) made their ODI debuts.
2nd ODI
22 April 2004 Scorecard |
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Sri Lanka won by 9 wickets Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo Umpires: KC Barbour (ZIM) and IL Howell (SA) Player of the match: WPUJC Vaas (Sri Lanka) |
- Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
3rd ODI
25 April 2004 Scorecard |
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Sri Lanka won by 9 wickets Harare Sports Club, Harare Umpires: DJ Harper (AUS) and ID Robinson (ZIM) Player of the match: WPUJC Vaas (Sri Lanka) |
- Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
- HMRKB Herath and MF Maharoof (both SL) made their ODI debuts.
- Chaminda Vaas took 300 wickets in ODIs.
- Zimbabwe's score of 35 was the lowest ever score in ODIs till 12 February 2020. USA scored 35 against Nepal in 12 overs and hence tied the record with Zimbabwe.[8]
4th ODI
27 April 2004 Scorecard |
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Sri Lanka won by 72 runs Harare Sports Club, Harare Umpires: KC Barbour (ZIM) and IL Howell (SA) Player of the match: UDU Chandana (SL) |
- Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to field.
- SHT Kandamby (SL) and T Mupariwa (ZIM) made their ODI debuts.
5th ODI
29 April 2004 Scorecard |
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Sri Lanka won by 25 runs Harare Sports Club, Harare Umpires: DJ Harper (AUS) and ID Robinson (ZIM) Player of the match: RP Arnold (SL) |
- Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
Test series
1st Test
6–8 May Scorecard |
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Sri Lanka won by an innings and 240 runs Harare Sports Club, Harare Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZ) and Rudi Koertzen (SA) Player of the match: Muttiah Muralitharan |
- Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
- Test debuts: Brendan Taylor, Elton Chigumbura, Prosper Utseya, Alester Maregwede, Tinashe Panyangara (all Zimbabwe), Farveez Maharoof (Sri Lanka)
2nd Test
14–17 May Scorecard |
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Sri Lanka won by an innings and 254 runs Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZ) and Rudi Koertzen (SA) Player of the match: Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka) |
- Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field
- Tawanda Mupariwa (Zimbabwe) made his Test debut.
References
- ^ CricketArchive – tour itinerary Archived 6 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 14 December 2010.
- ^ "Herath set for captaincy debut in Zimbabwe's 100th Test". ESPNcricinfo.com. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ^ Heath Streak was loved, and he knew it
- ^ a b Zimbabwe hit by players' rebellion
- ^ Zimbabwe Agrees to Play No More Test Cricket Matches in 2004 - 2004-06-10
- ^ Zimbabwe's decade of hurt
- ^ Zimbabwe fails to qualify for T20 World Cup as African nation’s sad downfall continues
- ^ "Records | One-Day Internationals | Team records | Lowest innings totals". ESPNcricinfo.com. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ CricketArchive – 1st Test scorecard Cricketarchive.com, Retrieved on 14 December 2010.
- ^ CricketArchive – 2nd Test scorecard Cricketarchive.com, Retrieved on 14 December 2010.
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Preceding season: International cricket in 2003–04
- Sri Lanka in Zimbabwe
- India in England
- Australia against Pakistan in England
- Champions Trophy
Following season: International cricket in 2004–05
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