- Test no. 1459 | 1999 season
- Played at Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy
- 9,10,11 September 1999 (5-day match)
| Australia 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MJ Slater | lbw b Vaas | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| GS Blewett | lbw b Zoysa | 0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| JL Langer | c de Silva b Vaas | 7 | 29 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| ME Waugh | c & b Vaas | 6 | 31 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 28.57 | |
| SR Waugh* | c de Silva b Zoysa | 19 | 55 | 35 | 3 | 0 | 54.28 | |
| RT Ponting | c & b Muralitharan | 96 | 243 | 160 | 10 | 1 | 60.00 | |
| IA Healy† | st †Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan | 11 | 17 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 78.57 | |
| SK Warne | c Atapattu b Zoysa | 0 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| JN Gillespie | lbw b Muralitharan | 41 | 145 | 124 | 5 | 0 | 33.06 | |
| CR Miller | c Atapattu b Muralitharan | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| GD McGrath | not out | 4 | 20 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 26.66 | |
| Extras | (nb 4) | 4 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 67.1 overs; 264 mins) | 188 | (2.79 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| WPUJC Vaas | 16 | 2 | 43 | 3 | 2.68 | (3nb) | ||
| DNT Zoysa | 13 | 2 | 38 | 3 | 2.92 | (1nb) | ||
| M Muralitharan | 25.1 | 4 | 63 | 4 | 2.50 | |||
| ST Jayasuriya | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1.00 | |||
| UDU Chandana | 8 | 1 | 39 | 0 | 4.87 |
| Sri Lanka 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| ST Jayasuriya* | lbw b McGrath | 18 | 27 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| MS Atapattu | c Langer b Miller | 25 | 91 | 58 | 2 | 0 | 43.10 | |
| RP Arnold | lbw b Miller | 19 | 58 | 49 | 2 | 0 | 38.77 | |
| PA de Silva | c Ponting b Warne | 78 | 183 | 146 | 13 | 0 | 53.42 | |
| DPMD Jayawardene | c Ponting b Warne | 46 | 117 | 70 | 7 | 0 | 65.71 | |
| A Ranatunga | c †Healy b Warne | 4 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| RS Kaluwitharana† | b Miller | 9 | 23 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| UDU Chandana | c sub (ML Hayden) b Warne | 12 | 30 | 28 | 3 | 0 | 42.85 | |
| WPUJC Vaas | not out | 2 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| DNT Zoysa | c Miller b Warne | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 233.33 | |
| M Muralitharan | c McGrath b Miller | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 7, nb 3) | 14 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 66.3 overs; 272 mins) | 234 | (3.51 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| GD McGrath | 18 | 5 | 66 | 1 | 3.66 | (3nb) | ||
| JN Gillespie | 12 | 2 | 43 | 0 | 3.58 | |||
| CR Miller | 20.3 | 6 | 62 | 4 | 3.02 | (1nb) | ||
| SK Warne | 16 | 4 | 52 | 5 | 3.25 |
| Australia 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GS Blewett | c Atapattu b Muralitharan | 14 | 110 | 85 | 2 | 0 | 16.47 | |
| MJ Slater | lbw b Muralitharan | 27 | 61 | 50 | 3 | 0 | 54.00 | |
| JL Langer | lbw b Vaas | 5 | 26 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 26.31 | |
| ME Waugh | b Vaas | 0 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| RT Ponting | c Jayasuriya b Chandana | 51 | 136 | 118 | 4 | 1 | 43.22 | |
| IA Healy† | b Muralitharan | 3 | 20 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | |
| SK Warne | run out (Jayasuriya) | 6 | 17 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 60.00 | |
| CR Miller | b Vaas | 8 | 35 | 32 | 0 | 1 | 25.00 | |
| GD McGrath | not out | 10 | 50 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 34.48 | |
| SR Waugh* | absent hurt | - | ||||||
| JN Gillespie | absent hurt | - | ||||||
| Extras | (b 6, lb 5, w 1, nb 4) | 16 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 60.2 overs; 233 mins) | 140 | (2.32 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| WPUJC Vaas | 15 | 7 | 15 | 3 | 1.00 | |||
| DNT Zoysa | 10 | 3 | 28 | 0 | 2.80 | (1w) | ||
| PA de Silva | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1.66 | |||
| M Muralitharan | 26 | 5 | 65 | 3 | 2.50 | (4nb) | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | 4 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 1.75 | |||
| UDU Chandana | 2.2 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 3.85 |
| Sri Lanka 2nd innings (target: 95 runs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| ST Jayasuriya* | c sub (ML Hayden) b Miller | 18 | 24 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 78.26 | |
| MS Atapattu | c Blewett b McGrath | 0 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| RS Kaluwitharana† | b Miller | 5 | 32 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 29.41 | |
| PA de Silva | not out | 31 | 86 | 70 | 5 | 0 | 44.28 | |
| DPMD Jayawardene | c Slater b Miller | 9 | 31 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 45.00 | |
| A Ranatunga | not out | 19 | 46 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 65.51 | |
| Extras | (b 8, lb 2, nb 3) | 13 | ||||||
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| Total | (4 wickets; 26.5 overs; 110 mins) | 95 | (3.54 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat RP Arnold, UDU Chandana, WPUJC Vaas, DNT Zoysa, M Muralitharan |
| Fall of wickets1-12 (Atapattu, 2.1 ov), 2-24 (Jayasuriya, 5.2 ov), 3-39 (Kaluwitharana, 9.3 ov), 4-60 (Jayawardene, 15.2 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| GD McGrath | 7 | 2 | 19 | 1 | 2.71 | (2nb) | ||
| CR Miller | 13 | 2 | 48 | 3 | 3.69 | |||
| SK Warne | 6.5 | 3 | 18 | 0 | 2.63 | (1nb) |
| Match details |
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Toss Australia, who chose to bat Series Sri Lanka led the 3-match series 1-0 |
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Players of the match
PA de Silva (Sri Lanka) and RT Ponting (Australia) |
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Umpires
PT Manuel and S Venkataraghavan (India) TV umpire BC Cooray Match referee CW Smith (West Indies) |
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Close of play 9 Sep day 1 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 69/2 (MS Atapattu 25*, 20.2 ov) 10 Sep day 2 - Australia 2nd innings 89/6 (RT Ponting 22*, CR Miller 0*, 42 ov) 11 Sep day 3 - Sri Lanka 2nd innings 95/4 (26.5 ov) - end of match |
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