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Match Date : June 16 & 18, 1979
Venue : Old Trafford, Manchester
Toss : India won the toss and elected to field first
Umpires : KE Palmer and AGT Whitehead
Match Result : Sri Lanka won by 47 runs
Man of the Match : Duleep Mendis
Sri Lanka (60 Overs Maximum)
Bandula Warnapura c Gaekwad b Amarnath 18
Sidath Wettimuny c Vengsarkar b Kapil Dev 67
Roy Dias c and b Amarnath 50
Duleep Mendis (C) run out 64
Ranjan Madugulle c Khanna b Amarnath 4
Sudath Pasqual not out 23
Somachandra de Silva not out 1
Sunil Jayasinghe (WK)
Tony Opatha
Stanley De Silva
Ranjan Gunatilleke
Extras : 11 (Wides : 2 No Balls: 1 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 8)
Total : 238/5 (Overs : 60.0)
Fall of Wickets : 1-31 (Warnapura), 2-127 (Wettimuny), 3-147 (Dias), 4-175 (Madugalle), 5-227 (Mendis)
India Bowling
Kapil Dev 12-2-53-1
Ghavri 12-0-53-0
Amarnath 12-3-40-3
Bedi 12-2-37-0
Venkataraghavan 12-0-44-0
India (Target: 239 from 60 overs)
Sunil Gavaskar c Dias b Warnapura 26
Anshuman Gaekwad c sub (GRA de Silva) b Stanley de Silva 33
Dilip Vengsarkar c Stanley de Silva b Somachandra de Silva 36
Gundappa Viswanath run out 22
Brijesh Patel b Somachandra de Silva 10
Kapil Dev c Warnapura b Stanley de Silva 16
Mohinder Amarnath b Somachandra de Silva 7
Karsan Ghavri c Warnapura b Opatha 3
Surender Khanna (WK) c Dias b Opatha 10
Venkataraghavan (C) not out 9
Bishan Singh Bedi c Jayasinghe b Opatha 5
Extras : 14 (Wides: 3 No Balls: 1 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 10)
Total : 191 all out (Overs: 54.1)
Fall of Wickets : 1-60 (Gavaskar), 2-76 (Gaekwad), 3-119 (Viswanath), 4-132 (Patel), 5-147 (Vengsarkar), 6-160 (Kapil Dev), 7-162 (Amarnath), 8-170 (Ghavri), 9-185 (Khanna), 10-191 (Bedi)
Sri Lanka Bowling
Opatha 10.1-0-31-3
Gunatilleke 9-1-34-0
Warnapura 12-0-47-1
Stanley de Silva 12-0-36-2
Somachandra de Silva 11-1-29-3