- Test no. 1461 | 1999 season
- Played at Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo
- 30 September, 1,2,3,4 October 1999 (5-day match)
| Australia 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GS Blewett | c Atapattu b Herath | 70 | 228 | 210 | 9 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| MJ Slater | st †Kaluwitharana b Arnold | 59 | 191 | 144 | 6 | 0 | 40.97 | |
| JL Langer | c Ranatunga b Muralitharan | 32 | 86 | 82 | 3 | 0 | 39.02 | |
| ME Waugh | c Arnold b Muralitharan | 13 | 41 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 46.42 | |
| SR Waugh* | c †Kaluwitharana b Herath | 14 | 70 | 69 | 0 | 0 | 20.28 | |
| RT Ponting | not out | 105 | 222 | 171 | 11 | 0 | 61.40 | |
| IA Healy† | c Jayawardene b Vaas | 7 | 38 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 18.42 | |
| SK Warne | lbw b Vaas | 0 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| DW Fleming | c Atapattu b Muralitharan | 32 | 99 | 78 | 3 | 0 | 41.02 | |
| CR Miller | lbw b Vaas | 0 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| GD McGrath | c Atapattu b Vaas | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (nb 10) | 10 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 136.4 overs) | 342 | (2.50 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| WPUJC Vaas | 23.4 | 5 | 54 | 4 | 2.28 | (1nb) | ||
| DNT Zoysa | 10 | 4 | 23 | 0 | 2.30 | |||
| HMRKB Herath | 35 | 10 | 98 | 2 | 2.80 | |||
| M Muralitharan | 52 | 5 | 150 | 3 | 2.88 | (9nb) | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | 9 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 1.55 | |||
| RP Arnold | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0.42 |
| Sri Lanka 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| ST Jayasuriya* | c Warne b McGrath | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| MS Atapattu | c †Healy b Fleming | 2 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 18.18 | |
| RP Arnold | lbw b Fleming | 0 | 23 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| PA de Silva | not out | 19 | 77 | 59 | 1 | 0 | 32.20 | |
| DPMD Jayawardene | c †Healy b Fleming | 21 | 63 | 52 | 3 | 0 | 40.38 | |
| A Ranatunga | not out | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| Extras | (b 8, lb 1, w 5, nb 4) | 18 | ||||||
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| Total | (4 wickets; 21.5 overs) | 61 | (2.79 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat RS Kaluwitharana†, WPUJC Vaas, HMRKB Herath, DNT Zoysa, M Muralitharan |
| Fall of wickets1-0 (Jayasuriya, 0.1 ov), 2-7 (Atapattu, 3.1 ov), 3-10 (Arnold, 5.1 ov), 4-60 (Jayawardene, 21.2 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| GD McGrath | 10 | 3 | 25 | 1 | 2.50 | (4nb, 1w) | ||
| DW Fleming | 5.5 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 2.40 | |||
| SK Warne | 5 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 2.20 | |||
| CR Miller | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss Australia, who chose to bat Series Sri Lanka won the 3-match series 1-0 |
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Player of the match
RT Ponting (Australia) Player of the series RT Ponting (Australia) |
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Umpires
KT Francis and P Willey (England) TV umpire EAR de Silva Match referee CW Smith (West Indies) |
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Close of play 30 Sep day 1 - Australia 1st innings 203/4 (SR Waugh 10*, RT Ponting 11*, 88.2 ov) 1 Oct day 2 - Australia 1st innings 318/7 (RT Ponting 90*, DW Fleming 23*, 126.2 ov) 2 Oct day 3 - Australia 1st innings 342 3 Oct day 4 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 61/4 (PA de Silva 19*, A Ranatunga 1*, 21.5 ov) 4 Oct day 5 - no play |
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