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ODI # 1043
Benson & Hedges World Series, 1995/96, 2nd Final
Australia v Sri Lanka
Sydney Cricket Ground (day/night)
20 January 1996 (50-over match)
Result: Australia won by 9 runs (revised target)
Australia wins the best-of-3-finals 2-0
Toss: Sri Lanka
Umpires: PD Parker and SG Randell
TV Umpire: DB Hair
Match Referee: GT Dowling (NZ)
Man of the Preliminary Series: RS Kaluwitharana
Men of the Finals: MA Taylor and SK Warne
Australia innings (50 overs maximum) R M B 4 6
ME Waugh c & b Kalpage 73 108 82 8 0
*MA Taylor c Kaluwitharana b Kalpage 82 155 95 6 0
RT Ponting c Vaas b Dharmasena 17 26 26 1 0
SR Waugh c Kalpage b Dharmasena 2 5 7 0 0
SG Law b Vaas 21 32 29 1 0
MG Bevan not out 32 56 34 1 0
+IA Healy not out 40 32 28 1 0
Extras (lb 5, w 1) 6
Total (5 wickets, 50 overs, 212 mins) 273
DNB: PR Reiffel, SK Warne, CJ McDermott, GD McGrath.
FoW: 1-135 (ME Waugh, 24.5 ov), 2-170 (Ponting, 31.5 ov),
3-176 (SR Waugh, 33.3 ov), 4-184 (Taylor, 36.2 ov),
5-210 (Law, 42.1 ov).
Bowling O M R W
Vaas 10 1 47 1
Pushpakumara 8 1 39 0 (1w, 1nb)
Munasinghe 4 0 33 0
Dharmasena 10 0 45 2
Kalpage 10 0 47 2
Jayasuriya 8 0 57 0
Sri Lanka innings (target: 168 runs off 25 overs) R M B 4 6
ST Jayasuriya c McGrath b Warne 30 30 25 5 0
+RS Kaluwitharana lbw b McGrath 0 2 1 0 0
PA de Silva c Reiffel b ME Waugh 6 13 7 0 0
AP Gurusinha c Warne b Reiffel 24 26 15 2 0
*A Ranatunga c Law b Warne 41 70 43 2 0
RS Kalpage c Taylor b McDermott 9 16 10 1 0
HP Tillakaratne run out (ME Waugh) 25 54 26 1 0
HDPK Dharmasena c SR Waugh b Warne 7 11 11 0 0
AMN Munasinghe not out 3 12 5 0 0
WPUJC Vaas not out 8 9 8 0 0
Extras (lb 3, w 3) 6
Total (8 wickets, 25 overs, 128 mins) 159
DNB: KR Pushpakumara.
FoW: 1-1 (Kaluwitharana, 0.2 ov), 2-22 (de Silva, 3.4 ov),
3-49 (Jayasuriya, 6.3 ov), 4-66 (Gurusinha, 9.1 ov),
5-87 (Kalpage, 12.4 ov), 6-135 (Ranatunga, 20.1 ov),
7-146 (Dharmasena, 22.5 ov), 8-146 (Tillakaratne, 23.1 ov).
Bowling O M R W
McGrath 5 0 36 1 (1nb)
ME Waugh 5 0 31 1 (1w)
Warne 5 0 20 3 (1w)
SR Waugh 1 0 14 0
Reiffel 4 0 22 1 (1w)
McDermott 5 0 33 1
- RS Kaluwitharana was named the Player of the Preliminary
Series prior to the start of the match.
- Aus 10 ov 34/0; 20 ov 105/0; 30 ov 162/1; 40- 198/4.
- Aus 50 off 11.3 ov; 100 off 19.1 ov; 150 off 27.4 ov;
200 off 40.4 ov; 250 off 47.4 ov.
- ME Waugh - 50 off 55 balls
Taylor - 50 off 63 balls
- de Silva was injured with a bleeding hand when he dropped
Healy (11) in the 46th over, off the bowling of Jayasuriya.
M Muralitharan substituted for the remainder of the innings.
- Ranatunga dropped Healy (13) in the first ball of the 47th
over bowled by Vaas.
- Vaas dropped Healy (30) off his own bowling in the 49th over
- Australian score is the 4th highest ODI total in Sydney
- Heavy rain during the tea break delayed the start of Sri
Lanka's innings. Target was readjusted to 168 in 25 overs
(167 would be an Australian win).
- SL 10 ov 69/4, 20 ov 135/5.
SL 50 off 6.4 ov; 100 off 14.5 ov; 150 off 23.5 ov.
- Jayasuriya (12) was dropped by Reiffel in the 3rd over
off McGrath's bowling.
- Ranatunga (20) survived a caught and bowled chance in the
16th over by Reiffel.
- Jayasuriya was a runner for Ranatunga from the 18th over,
having been denied to do so by umpire Randell in the
previous over.
- Match finished at 10:58pm (scheduled finishing time was
10:30pm)
- 12th men: S Lee (Aus), M Muralitharan (SL)
- Crowd: 39,233
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Report
Tournament Index
Team Pages:
Australia,
Sri Lanka.
Ground Page:
Sydney Cricket Ground
Australia Player Pages:
ME Waugh,
MA Taylor,
RT Ponting,
SR Waugh,
SG Law,
MG Bevan,
IA Healy,
PR Reiffel,
SK Warne,
CJ McDermott,
GD McGrath.
Sri Lanka Player Pages:
ST Jayasuriya,
RS Kaluwitharana,
PA de Silva,
AP Gurusinha,
A Ranatunga,
RS Kalpage,
HP Tillakaratne,
HDPK Dharmasena,
AMN Munasinghe,
WPUJC Vaas,
KR Pushpakumara.
Match Officials' Pages:
PD Parker,
SG Randell,
DB Hair,
GT Dowling.
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