| Australia innings (38 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| AC Gilchrist† | c Silva b Fernando | 149 | 129 | 104 | 13 | 8 | 143.26 | |
| ML Hayden | c Jayawardene b Malinga | 38 | 100 | 55 | 3 | 1 | 69.09 | |
| RT Ponting* | run out (Jayawardene) | 37 | 53 | 42 | 1 | 1 | 88.09 | |
| A Symonds | not out | 23 | 39 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 109.52 | |
| SR Watson | b Malinga | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| MJ Clarke | not out | 8 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 133.33 | |
| Extras | (lb 4, w 16, nb 3) | 23 | ||||||
| Total | (4 wickets; 38 overs; 169 mins) | 281 | (7.39 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat MEK Hussey, GB Hogg, NW Bracken, SW Tait, GD McGrath |
| Fall of wickets1-172 (Hayden, 22.5 ov), 2-224 (Gilchrist, 30.3 ov), 3-261 (Ponting, 35.4 ov), 4-266 (Watson, 36.2 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| WPUJC Vaas | 8 | 0 | 54 | 0 | 6.75 | (2nb, 1w) | ||
| SL Malinga | 8 | 1 | 49 | 2 | 6.12 | |||
| CRD Fernando | 8 | 0 | 74 | 1 | 9.25 | (1nb, 4w) | ||
| M Muralitharan | 7 | 0 | 44 | 0 | 6.28 | (2w) | ||
| TM Dilshan | 2 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 11.50 | (1w) | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | 5 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 6.60 |
| Sri Lanka innings (target: 269 runs from 36 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| WU Tharanga | c †Gilchrist b Bracken | 6 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 75.00 | |
| ST Jayasuriya | b Clarke | 63 | 108 | 67 | 9 | 0 | 94.02 | |
| KC Sangakkara† | c Ponting b Hogg | 54 | 72 | 52 | 6 | 1 | 103.84 | |
| DPMD Jayawardene* | lbw b Watson | 19 | 31 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| LPC Silva | b Clarke | 21 | 41 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 95.45 | |
| TM Dilshan | run out (Clarke/McGrath) | 14 | 20 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 107.69 | |
| RP Arnold | c †Gilchrist b McGrath | 1 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| WPUJC Vaas | not out | 11 | 20 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 52.38 | |
| SL Malinga | st †Gilchrist b Symonds | 10 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 166.66 | |
| CRD Fernando | not out | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | |
| Extras | (lb 1, w 14) | 15 | ||||||
| Total | (8 wickets; 36 overs; 171 mins) | 215 | (5.97 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat M Muralitharan |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| NW Bracken | 6 | 1 | 34 | 1 | 5.66 | (1w) | ||
| SW Tait | 6 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 7.00 | (2w) | ||
| GD McGrath | 7 | 0 | 31 | 1 | 4.42 | (1w) | ||
| SR Watson | 7 | 0 | 49 | 1 | 7.00 | (3w) | ||
| GB Hogg | 3 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 6.33 | |||
| MJ Clarke | 5 | 0 | 33 | 2 | 6.60 | (2w) | ||
| A Symonds | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss Australia, who chose to bat Series Australia won the 2006/07 ICC World Cup |
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Player of the match
AC Gilchrist (Australia) Player of the series GD McGrath (Australia) |
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Umpires
Aleem Dar (Pakistan) and SA Bucknor TV umpire RE Koertzen (South Africa) Match referee JJ Crowe (New Zealand) Reserve umpire BF Bowden (New Zealand) |
| Match notes |
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