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Ireland vs Sri Lanka Scorecard, 1st Test, Sri Lanka vs Ireland 2023
Result · Apr 16 2023, Sun - 10:00 AM (IST)
SRI LANKA591/6 decl
IRELAND143, 168 f/o
Sri Lanka won by an innings and 280 runs
CRR:3.1
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | Ireland in Sri Lanka 2023 |
| Date: | Apr 16 2023, Sun - 10:00 AM (IST) |
| Country: | Sri Lanka |
| City: | Galle |
| Venue: | Galle International Stadium |
| Toss: | Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat. |
| Sri Lanka Playing XI: | Dimuth Karunaratne (c), Nishan Madushka, Kusal Mendis, Angelo Mathews, Dhananjaya de Silva, Dinesh Chandimal, Sadeera Samarawickrama (wk), Ramesh Mendis, Prabath Jayasuriya, Asitha Fernando, Vishwa Fernando |
| Ireland Playing XI: | Murray Commins, James McCollum, Andrew Balbirnie (c), Harry Tector, Curtis Campher, Peter Moor, Lorcan Tucker (wk), George Dockrell, Andy McBrine, Mark Adair, Ben White |
- Sri Lanka and Ireland will face off in men’s Test cricket for the first time ever; with the visitors being the host’s 10th different opponent ever in the format.
- Sri Lanka have lost three of their last four men’s Test matches, including each of their last two on the bounce; the last time the Lions lost more games in succession was a run of four games from December 2020 to January 2021.
- Sri Lanka have a 56% winning rate in men’s Tests at the Galle International Stadium (P41 W23 L12 D6), their joint best such rate at any venue with five or more games played in the format; the Lions won their most recent such game in Galle, a 246-run win against Pakistan in July 2022.
- Ireland have lost all their four men’s Test matches so far, becoming just the third team to lose each of their first four games in the format after South Africa and Bangladesh.
- Sri Lanka are unbeaten in their last four men’s multigame bilateral Test series at home (W2 D2); a win in the first game against Ireland will see the Lions go unbeaten in five such series for the first time since a run of eight between July 2006 and December 2010.
- Sri Lanka have scored 31.5% of their runs from singles in men’s Tests since the start of 2022, the highest such rate of any team in the format in this span.
- Ireland caught all seven of their catch attempts in their most recent men’s Test against Bangladesh earlier this month, making it their first game in the format where they logged a 100% catch success rate; since the start of 2022, there have been only six instances where a team has kept a 100% catch success rate in a men’s Test with more than five catch attempts.
- Dimuth Karunaratne (6,230 runs) is 132 away from becoming the outright fifth highest run scorer for Sri Lanka in men’s Tests, the current record is held by Aravinda de Silva (6,361 runs); Karunaratne scored 140 runs (89 & 51) in his most recent men’s Test against New Zealand.
- Harry Tector (50 and 56) became the first Ireland batter to score a 50 in his debut innings in men’s Tests and also became the first batter from his country to log a score of 50+ runs in both innings of a men’s Test in the game against Bangladesh.
- Prabath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) logged a bowling average of 24.7 in men’s Tests since the start of 2022, the third best of any spin bowler in this span (min 150 overs bowled); Jayasuriya has taken 19 wickets in this period, the most by any Sri Lanka bowler.