West Indies cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2005

West Indians in Sri Lanka in 2005
	West Indies	Sri Lanka
Dates	9 July 2005 – 9 August 2005
Captains	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	Marvan Atapattu
Test series
Result	Sri Lanka won the 2-match series 2–0
Most runs	Shivnarine Chanderpaul (154	Kumar Sangakkara (197)
Most wickets	Jermaine Lawson (11)	Muttiah Muralitharan (17)
One Day International series
Player of the series	See Indian Oil Cup 2005

West Indies cricket team toured Sri Lanka for two Test matches and a ODI tri-series in July and August 2005. West Indies were severely depleted owing to a contract dispute, which led to players like Brian Lara, Chris Gayle and Corey Collymore refusing to play. Thus, Sri Lanka went into the series as even more overwhelming favourites, their strong game at home and West Indies' poor form – with only one Test win in the last ten attempts. And they confirmed their favourite status, winning both Tests in rather emphatic style, although their batting showed worrying weaknesses against West Indian bowlers who bowled with more heart than talent at times.

Match drawn

West Indies didn't impress in their first tour match, but still hung on for a draw in this two-day game without first-class status. A mix of young, talented Sri Lankan bowlers and players close to the national side bowled them out for 110, and Marvan Atapattu and Kumar Sangakkara lifted Sri Lanka to 382. However, 32 overs wasn't enough to bowl out the West Indies, who were still thoroughly outplayed. [1]

S Chanderpaul 69
SL Malinga 4/71

S Chanderpaul 48*
M Muralitharan 6/36

Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Umpires: Nadeem Ghauri (Pak) and SJ Taufel (Aus)
Man of the Match: WPUJC Vaas (SL)

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