Match : Australia vs Srilanka, Match 6, Commonwealth Bank triseries.
Venue : WACA ground in Perth, Australia.
Date : 15th February, 2008.. an Day/Night ODI.
Debuts : none.
ODI no. : 2679 overall. (66th Aus v SL ODI, 19 to SL, 45 to Aus).
Toss : Australia, elected to bat.
Result : Australia won by 63 runs. with bonus points.
Points table.
Series : Game 6 of Ind v Aus v SL triseries in Australia, Feb-Mar 2008.
Man of Match : Adam Gilchrist.
Umpires : Darell Harper & Rudy Koertzen.
4th match for Srilanka in this triseries and 4th brilliant bowling performance.. yet, they ended up losing cause their batting couldn't stand up. Flaws in Aussie armory were very evident as their batsmen showed bad technique & fielders dropped catches. Srilankans too dropped catches but couldn't offer support to lone hand Kumar Sangakkara was playing.
It has to be said - Lankans played bad.. aussies didn't do anything special but kept the pressure up, like they always do!
| Australia (50 over innings) | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | St rate |
| Adam Gilchrist | c Kapu'dara b Malinga | 118 | 132 | 9 | 3 | 89 |
| Mathew Hayden | c Maharoof b Malinga | 4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 36 |
| Ricky Ponting | c Jaya'dene b Vaas | 25 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 100 |
| Michael Clarke | st Sang'ra b Muralitharan | 43 | 69 | 4 | 0 | 62 |
| Andrew Symonds | c Sang'ra b Maharoof | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| Michael Hussey | c Jayawardene b Kula'kara | 25 | 28 | 0 | 1 | 89 |
| James Hopes | c Jayasuriya b Kula'kara | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| Brad Hogg | b Malinga | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| Brett Lee | b Malinga | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 33 |
| Mitchell Johnson | run out (Dilshan) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nathan Bracken | not out | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| Extras | (lb=1, wd=6) | 7 |
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| Total | (all out, 49.4 overs) | 236 | (4.75 runs per over) |
| Fall of wickets : 1-16 (Hayden, 4 ovs), 2-66 (Ponting,13th ov), 3-171 (Clarke, 37th ov) |
| 4-177 (Symonds, 38th ov), 5-206 (Gilchrist, 44th ov), 6-217 (Hopes, 46th ov) |
| 7-232 (Hogg, 48th ov), 8-232 (Hussey, 49th ov), 9-233 (Johnson 48th ov), & Brett Lee |
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| O | M | R | W | Econ |
| Chaminda Vaas |
| 10 | 0 | 35 | 1 | 3.5 |
| Lasith Malinga | (3 wide) | 9.4 | 1 | 47 | 4 | 4.8 |
| Farveez Maharoof | (1noball, 1 wide) | 10 | 0 | 53 | 1 | 5.3 |
| Nuwan Kulasekara |
| 10 | 0 | 52 | 2 | 5.2 |
| Muthiah Muralitharan |
| 10 | 0 | 47 | 1 | 4.7 |
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| Srilanka (target 154 in 21 overs) | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | St rate |
| Tilakratane Dilshan | b Johnson | 11 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 85 |
| Sanath Jayasuriya | c Hopes b Bracken | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 120 |
| K Sanggakkara | b Lee | 80 | 114 | 4 | 0 | 70 |
| M Jayawardene | c Ponting b Johnson | 21 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 84 |
| Chamara Silva | c Symonds b Bracken | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| C Kapugedara | c Hussey b Hopes | 26 | 60 | 2 | 0 | 43 |
| Farveez Maharoof | c sub (Haddin) b Hogg | 7 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 44 |
| Chaminda Vaas | c Gilchrist b Hogg | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nuwan Kulasekara | c Symonds b Bracken | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lasith Malinga | b Johnson | 5 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 27 |
| Muthiah Muralitharan | not out | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| Extras | (lb=7, wd=3, nb=1) | 11 |
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| Total | (all out, 49.4 overs) | 173 | (3.8 runs per over) |
| Fall of wickets : 1-29 (Jayasuriya, 4th ov), 2-35 (Dilshan, 5th ov), 3-71 (Jaya, 11th ov) |
| 4-76 (Silva, 14th ov), 5-129(Kapu'dara, 33rd ov), 6-159(Farveez), 7-159 (Vaas, 20th ov) |
| 8-160 (Kulasekara, 41st ov), 9-173 (Malinga, 45th ov), 10-173.. Sangakkara. |
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| Bowling |
| O | M | R | W | Econ |
| Brett Lee | (1no ball) | 8.3 | 0 | 49 | 1 | 5.7 |
| Nathan Bracken | (1 wide) | 8 | 2 | 21 | 3 | 2.6 |
| Mitchell Johnson | (1 wide) | 10 | 2 | 29 | 3 | 2.9 |
| James Hopes |
| 9 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 2.9 |
| Brad Hogg | (1 wide) | 10 | 1 | 41 | 2 | 4.1 |