| 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) | ||
TheSri Lanka national cricket team toured Zimbabwe in April and May 2004 to play 2Test matches and 5Limited Overs Internationals.[1] The next time Zimbabwe played Sri Lanka in a Test match was inOctober 2016.[2]
The series was preceded by amassive crisis rocking Zimbabwe cricket, with captainHeath Streak sacked and dropped from the team for criticising theZimbabwe 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 wicketkeeperTatenda 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]
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) andDJ Harper (AUS) Player of the match:T Taibu (ZIM) |
22 April 2004 Scorecard |
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Sri Lanka won by 9 wickets Queens Sports Club,Bulawayo Umpires:KC Barbour (ZIM) andIL Howell (SA) Player of the match:WPUJC Vaas (Sri Lanka) |
25 April 2004 Scorecard |
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Sri Lanka won by 9 wickets Harare Sports Club,Harare Umpires:DJ Harper (AUS) andID Robinson (ZIM) Player of the match:WPUJC Vaas (Sri Lanka) |
27 April 2004 Scorecard |
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Sri Lanka won by 72 runs Harare Sports Club,Harare Umpires:KC Barbour (ZIM) andIL Howell (SA) Player of the match:UDU Chandana (SL) |
29 April 2004 Scorecard |
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Sri Lanka won by 25 runs Harare Sports Club,Harare Umpires:DJ Harper (AUS) andID Robinson (ZIM) Player of the match:RP Arnold (SL) |
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) andRudi Koertzen (SA) Player of the match:Muttiah Muralitharan |
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) andRudi Koertzen (SA) Player of the match:Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka) |
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