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Test # 1324 (1322/10)Sri Lanka in Australia, 1995-96, 3rd Test
 Australia v Sri Lanka
 Adelaide Oval
 25,26,27,28,29 January 1996 (5-day match)
 
Result: Australia won by 148 runsAustralia wins the 3-Test series 3-0
 
Toss: AustraliaUmpires: LH Barker (WI) and SG Randell
 TV Umpire: DJ Harper
 Match Referee: GT Dowling (NZ)
 Man of the Match: SR Waugh
 Man of the Series: SR Waugh
 
Close of play:
Day 1: Australia 239/5 (SR Waugh 70*, Healy 21*, 86 overs)
 Day 2: Australia 502/9d, Sri Lanka 80/0
        (Hathurusingha 24*, Jayasuriya 47*, 16 overs)
 Day 3: Sri Lanka 317, Australia 16/0 (Slater 7*, Taylor 9*, 6 overs)
 Day 4: Australia 215/6d, Sri Lanka 69/1 (Jayasuriya 50*, Gurusinha 2*, 21 ov) 
Australia 1st innings                                           R   M   B  4 6
*MA Taylor            c Kaluwitharana    b Vaas                21  73  55  0 1
MJ Slater             c Kaluwitharana    b Vaas                 0   1   1  0 0
DC Boon                                  b Pushpakumara        43 171 115  2 0
ME Waugh              c Pushpakumara     b Wickramasinghe      71 199 137  4 0
SR Waugh                                 b Pushpakumara       170 421 316 13 0
RT Ponting            c Kaluwitharana    b Vaas                 6  31  27  0 0
+IA Healy             c Pushpakumara     b Dharmasena          70 161 119  8 0
PR Reiffel            c Gurusinha        b Wickramasinghe      56 163 124  7 0
SK Warne              c Pushpakumara     b Wickramasinghe      33  63  39  5 0
CJ McDermott          not out                                  15  27  16  1 0
Extras                (b 5, lb 9, w 1, nb 2)                   17
Total                 (9 wickets decl, 157.3 ov, 656 mins)    502
DNB: GD McGrath.
FoW: 1-1 (Slater), 2-36 (Taylor), 3-96 (Boon), 4-181 (ME Waugh),
     5-196 (Ponting), 6-326 (Healy), 7-443 (SR Waugh),
     8-467 (Reiffel), 9-502 (Warne).
Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Vaas                        42     11    106      3
Pushpakumara                34      4    126      2 (1nb)
Wickramasinghe              39.3    7    120      3 (1w, 1nb)
Hathurusingha                4      0     15      0
Dharmasena                  25      3     80      1
Jayasuriya                  13      2     41      0
Sri Lanka 1st innings                                           R   M   B  4 6
UC Hathurusingha      c ME Waugh         b Reiffel             28  86  63  4 0
ST Jayasuriya         c Healy            b Reiffel             48  82  57  7 1
AP Gurusinha          c Reiffel          b McGrath             17  66  44  1 0
S Ranatunga           c SR Waugh         b McDermott           60 203 148  3 0
+RS Kaluwitharana     lbw                b Reiffel             31  44  35  4 1
HP Tillakaratne       c Healy            b McGrath             65 207 155  3 0
*PA de Silva          c Taylor           b McGrath             19  62  45  1 0
HDPK Dharmasena       c Healy            b McGrath              0   3   3  0 0
WPUJC Vaas            c ME Waugh         b Reiffel              8  12   7  1 0
GP Wickramasinghe                        b Reiffel             10  43  28  0 0
KR Pushpakumara       not out                                   2  11   7  0 0
Extras                (b 8, lb 13, w 1, nb 7)                  29
Total                 (all out, 97.1 overs, 414 mins)         317
FoW: 1-86 (Jayasuriya), 2-89 (Hathurusingha), 3-129 (Gurusinha),
     4-171 (Kaluwitharana), 5-237 (Ranatunga), 6-290 (de Silva),
     7-290 (Dharmasena), 8-299 (Vaas), 9-309 (Tillakaratne),
     10-317 (Wickramasinghe).
Bowling                      O      M      R      W
McDermott                   20      5     81      1 (2nb)
McGrath                     27      4     91      4
Warne                       26      4     74      0
Reiffel                     19.1    4     39      5 (5nb)
ME Waugh                     5      2     11      0
Australia 2nd innings                                           R   M   B  4 6
MJ Slater                                b Wickramasinghe      15  60  34  1 0
*MA Taylor                               b Pushpakumara        10  39  31  1 0
DC Boon               c Kaluwitharana    b Vaas                35  92  66  5 0
ME Waugh              c Tillakaratne     b Vaas                12  61  44  0 0
SR Waugh              not out                                  61 181 129  5 0
RT Ponting            c Kaluwitharana    b Vaas                20  64  61  2 0
+IA Healy             c Hathurusingha    b Pushpakumara        43  80  63  2 0
PR Reiffel            not out                                  14  25  15  2 0
Extras                (b 1, lb 1, nb 3)                         5
Total                 (6 wickets decl, 73 overs, 304 mins)    215
DNB: SK Warne, CJ McDermott, GD McGrath.
FoW: 1-22 (Taylor), 2-36 (Slater), 3-70 (ME Waugh), 4-75 (Boon),
     5-122 (Ponting), 6-186 (Healy).
Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Vaas                        21      6     44      3
Pushpakumara                17      2     63      2
Wickramasinghe              13      1     39      1 (2nb)
Dharmasena                  22      1     67      0 (1nb)
Sri Lanka 2nd innings (target: 401 runs)                        R   M   B  4 6
ST Jayasuriya         c Healy            b SR Waugh           112 272 188 14 2
UC Hathurusingha      c Healy            b McGrath             14  61  46  2 0
AP Gurusinha                             b Reiffel              2  28  28  0 0
S Ranatunga           c Healy            b SR Waugh            65 246 197  6 0
+RS Kaluwitharana                        b SR Waugh             0   7   2  0 0
HP Tillakaratne       c Healy            b McGrath              3  17  16  0 0
*PA de Silva          c Taylor           b ME Waugh             3  30  26  0 0
HDPK Dharmasena       c Taylor           b SR Waugh             2  21  16  0 0
WPUJC Vaas            c Healy            b McGrath             26  46  32  5 0
GP Wickramasinghe                        b Warne                6  12  17  0 0
KR Pushpakumara       not out                                   3  20  20  0 0
Extras                (b 1, lb 6, nb 9)                        16
Total                 (all out, 96.2 overs)                   252
FoW: 1-51 (Hathurusingha), 2-70 (Gurusinha), 3-195 (Jayasuriya),
     4-195 (Kaluwitharana), 5-199 (Tillakaratne),
     6-208 (de Silva), 7-216 (Ranatunga), 8-225 (Dharmasena),
     9-232 (Wickramasinghe), 10-252 (Vaas).
Bowling                      O      M      R      W
McGrath                     22.2    6     48      3
Reiffel                     15      0     60      1 (8nb)
SR Waugh                    19      8     34      4 (1nb)
Warne                       27     11     68      1
ME Waugh                     4      1     15      1
McDermott                    9      3     20      0
 
 DC Boon announced that this would be his final Test
 Scorers: RM Artis (AUS) and T Lowrey (SL)
 12th Men: TBA May (AUS) and RS Kalpage (SL).
 Day 1
 Slater out to the first ball he faced
 Lunch: AUS 2-43 (Boon 21*, ME Waugh 1*)
 Tea: AUS 3-133 (ME Waugh 46*, SR Waugh 18*)
 Sri Lankans dropped 4 catches
     Kaluwitharana dropped ME Waugh and SR Waugh
     Pushpakumara dropped Boon
     Tillekaratne dropped ME Waugh
 Play ended at 7:20pm due to bad light (80 minutes after
     scheduled close). 4 overs total lost to the weather.
 Crowd: 9119
 Day 2
 Jayasuriya dropped Healy (25) off Vaas
 10 minutes play lost to rain in the 1st session. Scheduled
     close extended to 6:10pm.
 SR Waugh out to the first ball of the 3rd session
 McDermott hit an all-run 5 off the first ball he faced
 Warne hit 2 consecutive 4s before being caught in the
     outfield hooking
 Jayasuriya had scored 20 runs before Hathurusinghe scored
     his first.
 Sri Lanka 50 off 8.1 overs (35 minutes).
 Jayasuriya hit 23 runs off the 11 balls he faced in
     McDermott's first spell of 5-1-28-0.
 Crowd: 17277
 Day 3
 Lunch: SL 3-170 (Ranatunga 31*, Kaluwitharana 30*)
 Tea: SL 5-253 (Tillekeratne 37*, de Silva 8*)
 Tillekeratne was Healy's 250th catch and 270th dismissal
     (equal 2nd on all-time list of wicketkeeping dismissals)
 Crowd: 14533
 Day 4
 Lunch: 86/4 (SR Waugh 3*, Ponting 9*)
 Tea: 173/5 (SR Waugh 44*, Healy 33*)
 Sri Lanka set 401 to win in a minimum of 111 overs
 Healy outright 2nd on wicketkeeping list (271 dismissals)
 Crowd: 15195
 Day 5
 Lunch 136/2 (Jayasuriya 74*, Ranatunga 34*)
 Tea was taken upon de Silva's dismissal.
 Tea 208/6 (Ranatunga 61*)
 Aggregate Crowd: 63478
 B&H International Cricketer of the Year: SR Waugh (awarded to
     the best player in the Australian international season)
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Australia Player Pages:
MA Taylor,
MJ Slater,
DC Boon,
ME Waugh,
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RT Ponting,
IA Healy,
PR Reiffel,
SK Warne,
CJ McDermott,
GD McGrath.
 
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UC Hathurusingha,
ST Jayasuriya,
AP Gurusinha,
S Ranatunga,
RS Kaluwitharana,
HP Tillakaratne,
PA de Silva,
HDPK Dharmasena,
WPUJC Vaas,
GP Wickramasinghe,
KR Pushpakumara.
 
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LH Barker,
SG Randell,
DJ Harper,
GT Dowling.
 
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