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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
Brad Hogg
Nathan Brackan
Mitchell Johnson
Extras	(2 leg bye, 6 wides)	8
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)
Bowling		O	M	R	W	Econ
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
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
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).
Bowling		O	M	R	W	Econ
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

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