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Test # 1317 (1320/8)Sri Lanka in Australia, 1995/96, 1st Test
 Australia v Sri Lanka
 W.A.C.A. Ground, Perth
 8,9,10,11 December 1995 (5-day match)
 
Result: Australia won by an innings and 36 runsAustralia leads the 3-Test series 1-0
 
Toss: Sri LankaUmpires: Khizer Hayat (Pak) and PD Parker
 TV Umpire: BT Rennie
 Match Referee: GT Dowling (NZ)
 Test Debuts: SG Law, RT Ponting (Aus).
 Man of the Match: MJ Slater
 
Close of Play:
Day 1: Sri Lanka 251
 Day 2: Australia 358/2 (Slater 189*, Waugh 36*, 90 overs)
 Day 3: Australia 617/5d, Sri Lanka 13/0 (Mahanama 2*, Hathurusingha 7*, 4 ov) 
Sri Lanka 1st innings                                           R   M   B  4 6
RS Mahanama           c Warne            b McDermott           15  80  52  1 0
UC Hathurusingha      c Law              b McGrath             14  41  32  2 0
AP Gurusinha                             b McGrath             46 157 140  4 0
PA de Silva                          c & b Warne               10  40  27  1 0
*A Ranatunga          c Healy            b McGrath             32  79  54  2 1
HP Tillakaratne       lbw                b McDermott            6  68  51  0 0
+RS Kaluwitharana     c Taylor           b Warne               50  90  74  7 0
HDPK Dharmasena                          b McDermott           30  92  72  4 0
WPUJC Vaas            c Healy            b Warne                4  12   7  0 0
GP Wickramasinghe     c Julian           b McGrath             28  38  32  5 0
M Muralitharan        not out                                   0   1   0  0 0
Extras                (b 4, lb 9, nb 3)                        16
Total                 (all out, 89.4 overs)                   251
FoW: 1-25 (Hathurusingha), 2-38 (Mahanama), 3-54 (de Silva),
     4-129 (Gurusinha), 5-132 (Ranatunga), 6-172 (Tillakaratne),
     7-193 (Kaluwitharana), 8-205 (Vaas), 9-251 (Wickramasinghe),
     10-251 (Dharmasena).
Bowling                      O      M      R      W
McDermott                   18.4    5     44      3
McGrath                     24      3     81      4 (1nb)
Julian                      17      8     32      0
Warne                       27      7     75      3 (2nb)
Waugh                        3      1      6      0
Australia 1st innings                                           R   M   B  4 6
MJ Slater                            c & b Muralitharan       219 460 321 15 5
*MA Taylor            lbw                b de Silva            96 224 173 14 0
DC Boon               c Hathurusingha    b Muralitharan        13  60  50  1 0
ME Waugh              c Kaluwitharana    b Vaas               111 261 223  7 1
RT Ponting            lbw                b Vaas                96 236 184  8 0
SG Law                not out                                  54 153 118  1 0
Extras                (b 4, lb 6, nb 18)                       28
Total                 (5 wickets declared, 174 overs)         617
DNB: +IA Healy, BP Julian, SK Warne, CJ McDermott, GD McGrath.
FoW: 1-228 (Taylor), 2-266 (Boon), 3-422 (Slater), 4-496 (Waugh),
     5-617 (Ponting).
Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Wickramasinghe              31      3    123      0 (7nb)
Vaas                        31      5    103      2 (3nb)
Muralitharan                54      3    224      2 (4nb)
Hathurusingha                9      3     31      0
Dharmasena                  31      5     84      0
de Silva                    18      1     42      1 (4nb)
Sri Lanka 2nd innings                                           R   M   B  4 6
RS Mahanama                              b McGrath             48 128  97  6 0
UC Hathurusingha      c Healy            b McGrath             11  35  24  1 0
AP Gurusinha          c Healy            b McDermott            7  30  17  0 0
PA de Silva           c Ponting          b Warne               20  36  35  4 0
*A Ranatunga                             b McGrath             46 114  64  6 1
HP Tillakaratne       c Ponting          b Warne              119 267 206 12 0
+RS Kaluwitharana     c Ponting          b Julian              40  45  42  6 0
HDPK Dharmasena       lbw                b McDermott           18  87  63  3 0
WPUJC Vaas            c Healy            b Warne                4  20  19  1 0
GP Wickramasinghe     c Warne            b McDermott            0   4   3  0 0
M Muralitharan        not out                                   3  10   4  0 0
Extras                (lb 4, nb 10)                            14
Total                 (all out, 93.4 overs)                   330
FoW: 1-35 (Hathurusingha), 2-56 (Gurusinha), 3-87 (de Silva),
     4-105 (Mahanama), 5-193 (Ranatunga), 6-258 (Kaluwitharana),
     7-310 (Dharmasena), 8-318 (Vaas), 9-319 (Wickramasinghe),
     10-330 (Tillakaratne).
Bowling                      O      M      R      W
McDermott                   20      3     73      3 (10nb)
McGrath                     24      7     86      3
Warne                       29.4    6     96      3
Julian                      13      4     40      1
Waugh                        4      0     22      0
Law                          3      1      9      0
 
 Scorers: CA Bull (Aus) and S Wheeler (SL)
 12th Men: MS Kasprowicz (Aus) and KR Pushpakumara (SL)
 Day 1
 Attendance: 8138
 Day 2
 MJ Slater 100 in 126 balls, 4x6.
 Aus 200 in 45.3 overs at 4.39 runs per over.
 Record 1st wicket partnership against SL by any team, highest
    partnership for the 1st wicket by any team at WACA.
 MJ Slater 150 in 196 balls, 13x4, 4x6.
 Australian 300 off 471 balls
 MJ Slater highest Test score (previous best: 176 v England at
    Brisbane 1994/95)
 Attendance: 7550
 Day 3
 Attendance: 9078
 Day 4
 Warne claims his 200th wicket with the wicket of Vaas.
 Tillekaratne's highest test score.
 Attendance: 4119 (Total: 28885)
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Team Pages:
Australia,
Sri Lanka.
 
Ground Page:
W.A.C.A. Ground, Perth
 
Sri Lanka Player Pages:
RS Mahanama,
UC Hathurusingha,
AP Gurusinha,
PA de Silva,
A Ranatunga,
HP Tillakaratne,
RS Kaluwitharana,
HDPK Dharmasena,
WPUJC Vaas,
GP Wickramasinghe,
M Muralitharan.
 
Australia Player Pages:
MJ Slater,
MA Taylor,
DC Boon,
ME Waugh,
RT Ponting,
SG Law,
IA Healy,
BP Julian,
SK Warne,
CJ McDermott,
GD McGrath.
 
Match Officials' Pages:
Khizer Hayat,
PD Parker,
BT Rennie,
GT Dowling.
 
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