Match : Australia vs Srilanka, Match 3, CB triseries.
Venue : Sydney cricket ground, Australia.
Date : 8th February, 2008.. an Day/Night ODI.
Debuts : none.
ODI no. : 2673rd overall. (65th Aus v SL ODI.. SL have won 19 & Aus 44).
Toss : Australia, elected to bat.
Result : Australia won by 128 runs, and thus - took a bonus point.. see
points table so far.
Series : Game 3 of Ind v Aus v SL triseries in Australia, Feb-Mar 2008.
Man of Match : Nathan Bracken.
Umpires : Tony Hill (New Zealand) & Simon Taufel (Australia).
Pitch at Sydney was as dusty as you'll ever see, bounce was not perfect for a one day internationals & weather was humid.. in all - you'll think conditions were perfect for an Srilankan win but home team Australia are the world champions. Once they huffed & puffed to their substantial first innings total - Srilankan had an hill to climb.. and they gave up very early with plenty of bad shots!
| Australia (50 over innings) | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | St rate |
| Adam Gilchrist | lbw b Kapugedara | 61 | 81 | 3 | 1 | 75 |
| Mathew Hayden | c Jaya'dene b Amer'singhe | 42 | 50 | 5 | 0 | 84 |
| Ricky Ponting | c Jaya'dene b Vaas | 9 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 41 |
| Michael Clarke | not out | 77 | 86 | 2 | 1 | 90 |
| Andrew Symonds | c Kapugedara b Vaas | 12 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 71 |
| Michael Hussey | c Dilshan b Amer'singhe | 10 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 78 |
| James Hopes | c Dilshan b Malinga | 34 | 29 | 2 | 0 | 117 |
| Brett Lee | not out | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Extras | (2 leg bye, 6 wides) | 8 |
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| Total | (for 6 wickets, in 50 overs) | 253 | 5.06 runs per over |
| Fall of wickets : 1-65 (Hayden), 2-88 (Ponting), 3-139 (Gilchrist), 4-160 (Symonds) |
| 5-190 (Hussey), 6-253 (Hopes) |
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| Chaminda Vaas |
| 10 | 1 | 34 | 2 | 3.4 |
| Lasith Malinga | (1 wide) | 10 | 0 | 55 | 1 | 5.5 |
| C Amerasinghe | (1 wide) | 10 | 0 | 66 | 2 | 6.6 |
| M Muralitharan |
| 10 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 4.2 |
| C Kapugedara |
| 10 | 0 | 54 | 1 | 5.4 |
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| Srilanka (target 254 from 50 overs) | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | St rate |
| S Jayasuriya | c Gilchrist b Bracken | 10 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 55 |
| U Tharanga | b Lee | 7 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 54 |
| K Sanggakkara | lbw b Bracken | 42 | 41 | 7 | 0 | 102 |
| M Jayawardene | c Gilchrist b Johnson | 6 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 38 |
| Chamara Silva | c Gilchrist b Hogg | 7 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| Tilkratne Dilshan | c Lee b Bracken | 14 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 140 |
| C Kapugedera | c Hayden b Bracken | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chaminda Vaas | run out (Ponting) | 18 | 30 | 3 | 0 | 60 |
| Lasith Malinga | run out (Symonds) | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| M Muralitharan | c Symonds b Bracken | 11 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 79 |
| C Amerasinghe | not out | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Extras | (3 lb, 4 wd, nb 1) | 8 |
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| Total | (all out, 31.3 overs) | 125 | 3.96 runs per over |
| Fall of wickets : 1-18 (Jayasuriya), 2-18 (Tharanga), 3-57 (Jayawardene), |
| 4-74 (Sangakkara), 5-81 (Silva), 6-84 (Kapugedara), 7-93 ( Dilshan), |
| 8-105 (Malinga), 9-114 (Vaas), 10-125 (Muralitharan). |
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| Bowling |
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| Brett Lee | (1 no ball, 1 wide) | 7 | 1 | 34 | 1 | 4.8 |
| Nathan Bracken | (1 wide) | 8.3 | 1 | 46 | 5 | 5.4 |
| Mitchell Johnson | (1 wide) | 5 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 1.8 |
| James Hopes |
| 5 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 3.2 |
| Brad Hogg | (1 wide) | 6 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 2.8 |
