TheSri Lankan cricket team touredEngland from May to July during the 1979 English domesticcricket season. The team spent most of its time in England, but also played in one match inIreland and one inScotland.
Sri Lanka, captained byAnura Tennekoon, played 10 matches on the tour, but only won once, againstOxford University Cricket Club in two days. Apart from losses toNottinghamshire County Cricket Club over 3 days andLeicestershire County Cricket Club in a 55-overs one-day match, all of the other matches were drawn.
Sti Lanka played 3-day matches against 6county cricket teams -Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club,Derbyshire County Cricket Club,Kent County Cricket Club,Worcestershire County Cricket Club,Glamorgan County Cricket Club andSussex County Cricket Club; Nottinghamshire won by 10 wickets, and all of the other matches were drawn. Sri Lanka also played a 55-overone-day match againstLeicestershire County Cricket Club, which Leicestershire won by 4 wickets; a 2-day match againstOxford University, which Sri Lanka won by an innings and 86 runs; and 3-day international matches againstIreland inEglinton and againstScotland inGlasgow, both drawn.
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