The Sri Lanka national cricket team are toured India in January and February 1994 to play three Test matches and three One Day Internationals (ODIs).
The tour followed the Sri Lankan's participation in the 1993 Hero Cup, where they reached the semi-final and was surrounded by controversy.
Sri Lanka only toured India after the Pakistan national cricket team pulled out citing security concerns. The Sri Lankan team manager, Bandula Warnapura, as was the case a few months earlier at the Hero Cup, blamed the batting failures of the first two test matches on poor umpiring decisions.
The series was played on spin-friendly pitches on which India had built up a formidable record. India won their eighth straight home win since the defeat of Sri Lanka in 1990-91 and their second successive series whitewash after beating England in 1992-93. Contrary to popular beliefs of the time that test matches in India produced boring draws, this series meant that the last 12 tests, from Madras in 1987-88 had produced a result- 11 wins for India. Azharuddin joined Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi and Sunil Gavaskar as India's most successful captains, with 9 wins each.
Further cause for celebration for India came when Kapil Dev became test cricket's highest wicket-taker, surpassing Richard Hadlee's tally of 431, which had stood for three and a half years.
Squads TestsODIs Mohammad Azharuddin (c) Sachin Tendulkar Kapil Dev Manoj Prabhakar Navjot Singh Sidhu Vinod Kambli Sanjay Manjrekar Venkatapathy Raju Anil Kumble Rajesh Chauhan Nayan Mongia (wk) Arjuna Ranatunga (c) Roshan Mahanama Dulip Samaraweera Hashan Tillakaratne Aravinda de Silva Ruwan Kalpage Dulip Liyanage Don Anurasiri Pramodya Wickramasinghe Muttiah Muralitharan Pubudu Dassanayake (wk) Marvan Atapattu Mohammad Azharuddin (c) Sachin Tendulkar Kapil Dev Manoj Prabhakar Navjot Singh Sidhu Vinod Kambli Sanjay Manjrekar Venkatapathy Raju Anil Kumble Rajesh Chauhan Nayan Mongia (wk) Pravin Amre Ajay Jadeja Salil Ankola Arjuna Ranatunga (c) Roshan Mahanama Dulip Samaraweera Hashan Tillakaratne Aravinda de Silva Ruwan Kalpage Dulip Liyanage Don Anurasiri Pramodya Wickramasinghe Muttiah Muralitharan Nisal Fernando (wk) Marvan Atapattu Sanath Jayasuriya Chaminda Vaas Ravindra Pushpakumara
Test series
1st Test
2nd Test
3rd Test
ODI series
1st ODI
2nd ODI
3rd ODI
References
External links Tour home at ESPN Cricinfo