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Match : Australia vs Srilanka, Match 9, CB triseries.
Venue : Melbourne cricket ground, Australia.
Date : 22 February, 2008.. an Day/Night ODI.
Debuts : none.
ODI no. : 2683 overall.
Toss : Srilanka, elected to field.
Result : Aus win by 24 runs (D/L method).
Series : Game 9 of Ind v Aus v SL triseries in Australia, Feb-Mar 2008
Man of Match : Michael Hussey.
Umpires : Rudi Koertzen & Simon Taufel

When you play well - you deserve to win. but when you don't play well, great teams still find a way to win. now Australians are not played good cricket, yet they are consistently winnings and this match made them the first team to qualify for the finals of this 2008 Commonwealth Bank triseries, which will be last of 20 years annual festival. see winners & points table.

Rain halted their run chase, and no play was possible after that. Srilankans should have been 80 for 4 wickets to not give away bonus points, which they did.

Australia (50 over innings)		Runs	Balls	4s	6s	St rate
Adam Gilchrist	b Vaas	6	11	0	0	54
Mathew Hayden	c Silva b Maharoof	23	53	3	0	43
Ricky Ponting	run out (Ma'roof/Sang'kara)	11	34	0	0	32
Michael Clarke	C & b Muralitharan	50	69	4	0	75
Andrew Symonds	c Sang'kara b Maharoof	4	6	0	0	67
Michael Hussey	not out	64	98	1	0	65
James Hopes	st Sang'kara b Muralitharan	11	16	0	0	68
Brad Hogg	c Dilshan b Malinga	4	4	0	0	100
MitchellJohnson	not out	6	9	0	0	67
Stuart Clark
Nathan Bracken
Extras	(b=2, wd=3)	5
Total	(for 7 wickets, 50 overs)	184	(3.68 runs per over)
Fall of wickets : 1-12 (Gilchrist, 4.3 ov), 2-39 (Hayden, 15 ov), 3-44 (Ponting, 18 ov)
4-74 (Symonds, 21.1 ov), 5-144 (Clarke, 42.1 ov), 6-166 (Hopes, 46.3 ov)
7-173 (Hogg, 47.5 ov)
Bowling		O	M	R	W	Econ
Chaminda Vaas		10	1	34	1	3.4
Lasith Malinga		10	1	44	1	4.4
Farveez Maharoof	(1 wide)	10	1	20	2	2.1
Muthiah Muralitharan		10	0	37	2	3.7
Ishara Amerasinghe	(2 wides)	10	0	47	0	4.7
Srilanka (target 185 in 50 overs)		Runs	Balls	4s	6s	St rate
Dilruwan Parera	lbw b Clark	1	13	2	0	85
Sanath Jayasuriya	c Ponting b Clark	0	10	2	0	120
K Sanggakkara	c Symonds b Hopes	22	114	4	0	70
M Jayawardene	c Gilchrist b Bracken	27	25	4	0	84
Chamara Silva	not out	16	10	0	0	0
Tillakratne Dilshan	not out	9	60	2	0	43
Farveez Maharoof
Chaminda Vaas
Lasith Malinga
Ishara Amerasinghe
Muthiah Muralitharan
Extras	(lb=1, wd=1)	2
Total	(for 4 wickets, 29.3 overs)	77	(2.61 runs per over)
Fall of wickets : 1-0 (Jayasuriya, 1.1 ov), 2-3 (Perera, 3.1 ov),
3-42 (Jayawardene, 16.2 ov), 4-64 (Sangakkara, 24.5)
Bowling		O	M	R	W	Econ
Nathan Bracken		6	1	13	1	2.1
Stuart Clark		5	1	8	2	1.6
Mitchell Johnson	(1 wide)	7	1	17	0	2.5
James Hopes		7	2	23	1	3.3
Brad Hogg		4.3	1	15	0	3.3

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