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Australia in Sri Lanka, Aug-Sep 1992 - Tour Summary




                 Australia in Sri Lanka
      Australia had a disappointing yet satisfying  tour  in
that  although  they  lost  the one-day series 2:1 they were
happy to win the test series  1:0  after  being  in  serious
trouble  in  the  first  test. The series victory was one of
very few away victories achieved by the Australian  team  in
the  last  twenty  years. Two other first class matches were
undertaken, the first against a board eleven was interrupted
by  rain and neither side completed their first innings. The
second match against Southern Province XI was also drawn but
three full days play was achieved.
      It was unfortunate for the Australians that the  first
and  only  first  class  match before the internationals was
restricted by rain. Against the  Board  XI  the  Australians
batted  first  and guided by Mark Waugh's 74 and McDermott's
58 no out declared at 9-278 during the sporadic outbreaks of
play.  Perhaps  in  a  sign of things to come Duleep Liyange
took 3 for 55. The Board XI made 6 for 296 before the  match
was called off. Test batsmen Roshan Mahanama made 82, Asanka
Gurusinha 47, Jayasuriya 51 and Atapattu 64 not out. Whitney
took  3  for 53 and Matthews 2-59. Australia was ambushed in
the second match of the tour which was the first  one-dayer.
Suffering from a lack of cricket (or too much in some of the
bastmen's cases) Australia was  beaten  by  4  wickets.  The
first  test  was  the next match on the tour and it was only
Sri Lanka's inexperience  that  cost  them  the  match.  The
second  first  class  non-test match was next, batting first
Australia scored 9 for 312, Mark  Waugh  made  118  and  Ian
Healy  78  not  out.  Damien Martyn finally played a game on
tour and made a good 61.Mike Whitney took 4 for 54 and  Tony
Dodemaide 3 for 19 as the Southern Province crashed for 164.
Atapattu made runs  again  with  35  and  A.  de  Silva  34.
Australia   batted  poorly  in  the  second  innings,  being
dismissed for 204, unfortunately not with enough time for  a
result.   David  Boon  made 57, Border 45 and Mark Waugh 38,
those being his last first class runs of the tour.  Southern
Province  was  2  for 34 after 21 overs were bowled in their
second  innings,  McDermott  took  1  wicket  as  did   Tony
Dodemaide, with Boon having none for 4 from his 3 overs.
      Australia played the final two test both of which were
drawn  and  the  final two one-dayers wee wedged between the
second and third tests. Australia lost the second  one-dayer
on  run-rate,  the Sri Lankans not interested in employing a
integral mathematician or the rain rule employing  a  simple
average  run  rate  over required overs. The final one-dayer
was won by the Australians as  the  bowling  restricted  Sri
Lanka  to 207 and the Australian ground out the victory by 3
overs.
            M  W  L  D  T
First Class 5  1  -  4  -
One-Day     3  1  2  -  -
Total       8  2  2  4  -
Colombo Australia 5-247 (50.0) (Taylor 94 Moody 54 
        M Waugh 31 Jones 30)
        SL 6-251 (49.2) (de Silva 105 Gurusinha 53 
        Ranatunga 45* Whitney 2-33)
Colombo First Test
Colombo Second Test
Colombo Australia 7-216(50.0) (Jones 59* Boon 35 
        Taylor 30 Border 30)
        SL 5-194(42.5) (de Silva 63 Hathurusinghe 52* 
        Mahanama 33)
Colombo SL 6-207(50.0) (Gurusinha 49 Hathurusinghe 46 
        de Silva 39)
        Australia 5-208 (47.0) (Boon 69 M Waugh 52*)
M'tuwa  Third Test

 Contributed by Phil Shead (drinnen@deakin.edu.au)



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