Benson & Hedges World Series - 9th match
Sri Lanka won by 3 wickets (with 15 balls remaining)
- ODI no. 1032 | 1995/96 season
- Played at Melbourne Cricket Ground
- 9 January 1996 - day/night (50-over match)
| Australia innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MJ Slater | c †Kaluwitharana b Munasinghe | 2 | 13 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 11.76 | |
| MA Taylor* | c †Kaluwitharana b Munasinghe | 9 | 54 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 23.68 | |
| ME Waugh | b Munasinghe | 0 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| RT Ponting | run out | 123 | 174 | 138 | 7 | 1 | 89.13 | |
| SG Law | c Tillakaratne b Wickramasinghe | 8 | 29 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 53.33 | |
| MG Bevan | not out | 65 | 116 | 87 | 5 | 0 | 74.71 | |
| Extras | (lb 2, w 2, nb 2) | 6 | ||||||
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| Total | (5 wickets; 50 overs) | 213 | (4.26 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat S Lee, IA Healy†, PR Reiffel, SK Warne, CJ McDermott |
| Fall of wickets1-8 (Slater), 2-10 (Waugh), 3-33 (Taylor), 4-54 (Law), 5-213 (Ponting) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| WPUJC Vaas | 10 | 3 | 41 | 0 | 4.10 | |||
| AMN Munasinghe | 10 | 1 | 30 | 3 | 3.00 | (1nb) | ||
| GP Wickramasinghe | 6 | 0 | 29 | 1 | 4.83 | (1nb) | ||
| HDPK Dharmasena | 10 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 3.10 | |||
| ST Jayasuriya | 10 | 0 | 56 | 0 | 5.60 | (1w) | ||
| RS Kalpage | 4 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 6.00 | (1w) |
| Sri Lanka innings (target: 214 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | c Lee b Reiffel | 8 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 57.14 | |
| RS Kaluwitharana† | run out (Slater) | 77 | 102 | 75 | 12 | 0 | 102.66 | |
| AP Gurusinha | run out (Slater) | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| PA de Silva* | lbw b McDermott | 35 | 86 | 53 | 1 | 0 | 66.03 | |
| RS Mahanama | lbw b Bevan | 51 | 93 | 71 | 4 | 0 | 71.83 | |
| HP Tillakaratne | lbw b McDermott | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| RS Kalpage | b Warne | 1 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | |
| HDPK Dharmasena | not out | 28 | 76 | 57 | 1 | 0 | 49.12 | |
| WPUJC Vaas | not out | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 7, w 5, nb 2) | 14 | ||||||
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| Total | (7 wickets; 47.3 overs) | 214 | (4.50 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat AMN Munasinghe, GP Wickramasinghe |
| Fall of wickets1-17 (Jayasuriya), 2-39 (Gurusinha), 3-127 (Kaluwitharana), 4-144 (de Silva), 5-144 (Tillakaratne), 6-147 (Kalpage), 7-209 (Mahanama) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| CJ McDermott | 10 | 0 | 42 | 2 | 4.20 | (2nb) | ||
| PR Reiffel | 10 | 0 | 47 | 1 | 4.70 | |||
| S Lee | 6 | 2 | 26 | 0 | 4.33 | (3w) | ||
| SK Warne | 10 | 1 | 37 | 1 | 3.70 | |||
| ME Waugh | 6 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 5.16 | (2w) | ||
| MG Bevan | 5.3 | 0 | 24 | 1 | 4.36 |
| Match details |
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Toss Australia, who chose to bat Points Sri Lanka 2, Australia 0 |
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Player of the match
RS Kaluwitharana (Sri Lanka) |
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Umpires
DJ Harper and AJ McQuillan TV umpire WP Sheahan Match referee GT Dowling (New Zealand) |
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