# Sri Lankan cricket team in the West Indies in 2007–08

The Sri Lanka national cricket team toured the West Indies in March and April 2008 to play two Test matches and three Limited Overs Internationals.

## Squads

| Tests | Tests | ODIs | ODIs |
| West Indies | Sri Lanka | West Indies | Sri Lanka |
| Chris Gayle (c) Sulieman Benn Dwayne Bravo Shivnarine Chanderpaul Sewnarine Chattergoon Pedro Collins Fidel Edwards Ryan Hinds Amit Jaggernauth Daren Powell Denesh Ramdin (wk) Marlon Samuels Ramnaresh Sarwan Devon Smith Jerome Taylor | Mahela Jayawardene (c) Ishara Amerasinghe Tillakaratne Dilshan Rangana Herath Prasanna Jayawardene (wk) Nuwan Kulasekara Muttiah Muralitharan Thilan Samaraweera Kumar Sangakkara Chamara Silva Thilan Thushara Chaminda Vaas Michael Vandort Malinda Warnapura Chanaka Welegedara | Chris Gayle (c) Sulieman Benn Dwayne Bravo Patrick Browne (wk) Shivnarine Chanderpaul Sewnarine Chattergoon Fidel Edwards Runako Morton Kieron Pollard Daren Powell Denesh Ramdin (wk) Darren Sammy Marlon Samuels Ramnaresh Sarwan Devon Smith Jerome Taylor | Mahela Jayawardene (c) Ishara Amerasinghe Malinga Bandara Tillakaratne Dilshan Chamara Kapugedera Nuwan Kulasekara Ajantha Mendis Jehan Mubarak Kumar Sangakkara (wk) Chamara Silva Upul Tharanga Thilan Thushara Mahela Udawatte Chaminda Vaas Kaushalya Weeraratne |

## Tour Matches
### GCB President's XI v Sri Lankans

* 17–19 March Scorecard
* Match drawn Providence Stadium, Georgetown, Guyana Umpires: Colin Alfred and Eddie Nicholls
* Sri Lankans won the toss and elected to bat.

### West Indies A v Sri Lankans

* 29–31 March Scorecard
* Match cancelled Shaw Park, Scarborough, Tobago
* The match was cancelled due to "flight problems".

## Test series
### First Test

* 22–26 March Scorecard
* Sri Lanka won by 121 runs Providence Stadium, Georgetown, Guyana Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZ) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Chaminda Vaas (SL)
* Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
* Sulieman Benn (WI) made his Test debut.
* This was Sri Lanka's first win in the Caribbean in Tests.

### Second Test

* 3–7 April Scorecard
* West Indies won by 6 wickets Queen's Park Oval, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZ) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Ramnaresh Sarwan (WI)
* Part of day 1 was washed out.

## ODI series
### First ODI

* 10 April Scorecard
| Sri Lanka 235/7 (50 overs) | v | West Indies 236/9 (50 overs) |
| Chamara Kapugedera 95 (117) Dwayne Bravo 4/32 (10 overs) | | Shivnarine Chanderpaul 62* (63) Ajantha Mendis 3/39 (10 overs) |
* West Indies won by 1 wicket Queen's Park Oval, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad Umpires: Clyde Duncan (WI) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Dwayne Bravo (WI)
* West Indies won the toss and elected to field.
* Sulieman Benn (WI), and Mahela Udawatte and Ajantha Mendis (SL) made their ODI debuts.

### Second ODI

* 12 April Scorecard
| Sri Lanka 112/5 (30.3 overs) | v | West Indies 125/3 (20.3/25 overs) |
| Upul Tharanga 40 (82) Chris Gayle 2/6 (1.3 overs) | | Marlon Samuels 54* (49) Nuwan Kulasekara 3/28 (5 overs) |
* West Indies won by 7 wickets (D/L) Queen's Park Oval, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad Umpires: Clyde Duncan (WI) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI)
* West Indies won the toss and elected to field.
* Rain delays reduced Sri Lanka's innings to 30.3 overs and set a revised target for West Indies of 125 from 25 overs.

### Third ODI

* 15 April Scorecard
| Sri Lanka 257/8 (50 overs) | v | West Indies 81/2 (18.2 overs) |
| Mahela Udawatte 73 (121) Chris Gayle 2/41 (10 overs) | | Sewnarine Chattergoon 46 (53) Thilan Thushara 1/12 (5.2 overs) |
* No result Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia Umpires: Clyde Duncan (WI) and Simon Taufel (Aus)
* West Indies won the toss and elected to field.
* Rain in the second innings forced the match to be abandoned.
* Thilan Thushara (SL) made his ODI debut.