The
Sri Lankan national cricket team
The Sri Lanka men's national cricket team, (; ) nicknamed The Lions, represents Sri Lanka in men's international cricket. It is a full Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test cricket, Test, One-Day International (ODI) and T ...
toured
New Zealand
New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...
January to March 1991 and played a three-match
Test series against the
New Zealand national cricket team
The New Zealand national cricket team represents New Zealand in men's international cricket. Nicknamed the Black Caps (), they played their first Test cricket, Test in 1930 against England cricket team, England in Christchurch, becoming the f ...
. The series was drawn 0–0. New Zealand were captained by
Martin Crowe
Martin David Crowe (22 September 1962 – 3 March 2016) was a New Zealand cricketer, Test and ODI captain as well as a commentator. He played for the New Zealand national cricket team between 1982 and 1995, and is regarded as one of the count ...
and Sri Lanka by
Arjuna Ranatunga
Deshamanya Arjuna Ranatunga (; ; born 1 December 1963), is a Sri Lankan politician and former cricketer, who was the 1996 Cricket World Cup winning captain for Sri Lanka, and scored the winning boundary in the final. He is regarded as the pion ...
. In addition, the teams played a three-match series of
Limited Overs International
One Day International (ODI) is a format of cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of fifty overs, with the game lasting up to 7 hours. The World Cup, generally held every four year ...
s (LOI) which New Zealand won 3–0.
Test series summary
1st Test
2nd Test
3rd Test
One Day Internationals (ODIs)
New Zealand won the Bank of New Zealand Trophy 3-0.
1st ODI
2nd ODI
3rd ODI
References
External links
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1991 in Sri Lankan cricket
1991 in New Zealand cricket
International cricket competitions from 1988–89 to 1991
New Zealand cricket seasons from 1970–71 to 1999–2000
1991
It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...
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