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 |
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| Extras | (b=2, wd=3) | 5 |
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| 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) |
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| Bowling |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Chaminda Vaas |
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| Lasith Malinga |
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| Extras | (lb=1, wd=1) | 2 |
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| 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) |
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| Bowling |
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| 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 |