Sri Lanka in Australia Test Series - 1st Test
Australia won by an innings and 36 runs
- Test no. 1317 | 1995/96 season
- Played at Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth
- 8,9,10,11 December 1995 (5-day match)
| Sri Lanka 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| RS Mahanama | c Warne b McDermott | 15 | 80 | 52 | 1 | 0 | 28.84 | |
| UC Hathurusingha | c Law b McGrath | 14 | 41 | 32 | 2 | 0 | 43.75 | |
| AP Gurusinha | b McGrath | 46 | 157 | 140 | 4 | 0 | 32.85 | |
| PA de Silva | c & b Warne | 10 | 40 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 37.03 | |
| A Ranatunga* | c †Healy b McGrath | 32 | 79 | 54 | 2 | 1 | 59.25 | |
| HP Tillakaratne | lbw b McDermott | 6 | 68 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 11.76 | |
| RS Kaluwitharana† | c Taylor b Warne | 50 | 90 | 74 | 7 | 0 | 67.56 | |
| HDPK Dharmasena | b McDermott | 30 | 92 | 72 | 4 | 0 | 41.66 | |
| WPUJC Vaas | c †Healy b Warne | 4 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 57.14 | |
| GP Wickramasinghe | c Julian b McGrath | 28 | 38 | 32 | 5 | 0 | 87.50 | |
| M Muralitharan | not out | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 9, nb 3) | 16 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 89.4 overs) | 251 | (2.79 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| CJ McDermott | 18.4 | 5 | 44 | 3 | 2.35 | |||
| GD McGrath | 24 | 3 | 81 | 4 | 3.37 | (1nb) | ||
| BP Julian | 17 | 8 | 32 | 0 | 1.88 | |||
| SK Warne | 27 | 7 | 75 | 3 | 2.77 | (2nb) | ||
| ME Waugh | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Australia 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MJ Slater | c & b Muralitharan | 219 | 460 | 321 | 15 | 5 | 68.22 | |
| MA Taylor* | lbw b de Silva | 96 | 224 | 173 | 14 | 0 | 55.49 | |
| DC Boon | c Hathurusingha b Muralitharan | 13 | 60 | 50 | 1 | 0 | 26.00 | |
| ME Waugh | c †Kaluwitharana b Vaas | 111 | 261 | 223 | 7 | 1 | 49.77 | |
| RT Ponting | lbw b Vaas | 96 | 236 | 184 | 8 | 0 | 52.17 | |
| SG Law | not out | 54 | 153 | 118 | 1 | 0 | 45.76 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 6, nb 18) | 28 | ||||||
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| Total | (5 wickets dec; 174 overs) | 617 | (3.54 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat IA Healy†, BP Julian, SK Warne, CJ McDermott, GD McGrath |
| Fall of wickets1-228 (Taylor), 2-266 (Boon), 3-422 (Slater), 4-496 (Waugh), 5-617 (Ponting) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| GP Wickramasinghe | 31 | 3 | 123 | 0 | 3.96 | (7nb) | ||
| WPUJC Vaas | 31 | 5 | 103 | 2 | 3.32 | (3nb) | ||
| M Muralitharan | 54 | 3 | 224 | 2 | 4.14 | (4nb) | ||
| UC Hathurusingha | 9 | 3 | 31 | 0 | 3.44 | |||
| HDPK Dharmasena | 31 | 5 | 84 | 0 | 2.70 | |||
| PA de Silva | 18 | 1 | 42 | 1 | 2.33 | (4nb) |
| Sri Lanka 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| RS Mahanama | b McGrath | 48 | 128 | 97 | 6 | 0 | 49.48 | |
| UC Hathurusingha | c †Healy b McGrath | 11 | 35 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 45.83 | |
| AP Gurusinha | c †Healy b McDermott | 7 | 30 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 41.17 | |
| PA de Silva | c Ponting b Warne | 20 | 36 | 35 | 4 | 0 | 57.14 | |
| A Ranatunga* | b McGrath | 46 | 114 | 64 | 6 | 1 | 71.87 | |
| HP Tillakaratne | c Ponting b Warne | 119 | 267 | 206 | 12 | 0 | 57.76 | |
| RS Kaluwitharana† | c Ponting b Julian | 40 | 45 | 42 | 6 | 0 | 95.23 | |
| HDPK Dharmasena | lbw b McDermott | 18 | 87 | 63 | 3 | 0 | 28.57 | |
| WPUJC Vaas | c †Healy b Warne | 4 | 20 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 21.05 | |
| GP Wickramasinghe | c Warne b McDermott | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| M Muralitharan | not out | 3 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 75.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 4, nb 10) | 14 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 93.4 overs) | 330 | (3.52 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| CJ McDermott | 20 | 3 | 73 | 3 | 3.65 | (10nb) | ||
| GD McGrath | 24 | 7 | 86 | 3 | 3.58 | |||
| SK Warne | 29.4 | 6 | 96 | 3 | 3.23 | |||
| BP Julian | 13 | 4 | 40 | 1 | 3.07 | |||
| ME Waugh | 4 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 5.50 | |||
| SG Law | 3 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to bat Series Australia led the 3-match series 1-0 |
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Test debuts
SG Law and
RT Ponting
(Australia) Player of the match MJ Slater (Australia) |
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Umpires
Khizer Hayat (Pakistan) and PD Parker TV umpire BT Rennie Match referee GT Dowling (New Zealand) |
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Close of play 8 Dec day 1 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 251 9 Dec day 2 - Australia 1st innings 358/2 (MJ Slater 189*, ME Waugh 36*, 90 ov) 10 Dec day 3 - Sri Lanka 2nd innings 13/0 (RS Mahanama 2*, UC Hathurusingha 7*, 4 ov) 11 Dec day 4 - Sri Lanka 2nd innings 330 (93.4 ov) - end of match |
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