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| Venue | R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo on 7th September 1996 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Australia won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Sri Lanka won by 50 runs |
| Umpires | SA Bucknor, CJ Mitchley |
| Referee | JR Reid |
| Player of the Match | PA de Silva |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| ST Jayasuriya | c Law b McGrath | 27 | 20 | 21 | 5 | - | 135.00 |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | c and b Lehmann | 58 | 45 | 68 | 5 | - | 128.89 |
| AP Gurusinha | c Bevan b McGrath | 29 | 46 | 90 | 1 | - | 63.04 |
| PA de Silva | not out | 75 | 64 | 76 | 2 | 3 | 117.19 |
| *A Ranatunga | not out | 39 | 40 | 54 | 1 | 1 | 97.50 |
| HP Tillakaratne | did not bat | ||||||
| RS Mahanama | did not bat | ||||||
| UDU Chandana | did not bat | ||||||
| HDPK Dharmasena | did not bat | ||||||
| WPUJC Vaas | did not bat | ||||||
| M Muralitharan | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 1 lb, 2 nb, 2 w) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, innings closed, 35 overs) | 234 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-42 (Jayasuriya), 2-104 (Kaluwitharana), 3-131 (Gurusinha) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| McGrath | 7 | 0 | 35 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 21.00 | 5.00 |
| Fleming | 7 | 0 | 53 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.57 |
| Reiffel | 4 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 1 | 3 | - | 10.75 |
| Lehmann | 5 | 0 | 29 | 1 | - | - | 30.00 | 5.80 |
| SR Waugh | 7 | 0 | 31 | 0 | - | 1 | - | 4.43 |
| ME Waugh | 5 | 0 | 41 | 0 | - | - | - | 8.20 |
| Australia innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| ME Waugh | run out (Mahanama) | 9 | 12 | 20 | - | - | 75.00 |
| MJ Slater | c Chandana b Vaas | 8 | 6 | 12 | 1 | - | 133.33 |
| RT Ponting | c Jayasuriya b Vaas | 17 | 26 | 25 | 2 | - | 65.38 |
| SR Waugh | c and b Chandana | 55 | 53 | 79 | 2 | 1 | 103.77 |
| SG Law | c Muralitharan b Dharmasena | 31 | 37 | 45 | 2 | - | 83.78 |
| MG Bevan | b Dharmasena | 7 | 11 | 25 | - | - | 63.64 |
| DS Lehmann | st Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan | 15 | 12 | 16 | 2 | - | 125.00 |
| *+IA Healy | c Muralitharan b Chandana | 20 | 19 | 29 | - | - | 105.26 |
| PR Reiffel | c Mahanama b Chandana | 12 | 20 | 23 | - | - | 60.00 |
| DW Fleming | not out | 1 | 1 | 4 | - | - | 100.00 |
| GD McGrath | c Mahanama b Chandana | 0 | 3 | 3 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Extras | (3 lb, 2 nb, 4 w) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 33 overs) | 184 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-17 (Slater), 2-26 (ME Waugh), 3-48 (Ponting), 4-104 (Law), 5-129 (SR Waugh), 6-145 (Bevan), 7-151 (Lehmann), 8-183 (Reiffel), 9-183 (Healy), 10-184 (McGrath) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Vaas | 5 | 0 | 23 | 2 | - | - | 15.00 | 4.60 |
| Gurusinha | 2 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 3 | - | - | 8.50 |
| de Silva | 3 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.00 |
| Muralitharan | 7 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 42.00 | 4.00 |
| Jayasuriya | 5 | 0 | 27 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.40 |
| Dharmasena | 5 | 0 | 33 | 2 | - | - | 15.00 | 6.60 |
| Chandana | 6 | 0 | 35 | 4 | - | - | 9.00 | 5.83 |
Notes
--> The match was reduced before play started to 35 overs per side
--> Sri Lanka innings: 50 in 5.5 overs
--> Sri Lanka innings: 100 in 12.5 overs
--> Sri Lanka innings: 150 in 24.1 overs
--> Sri Lanka innings: 200 in 32.1 overs
--> Australia innings: 50 in 8.5 overs
--> Australia innings: 100 in 18.6 overs
--> Australia innings: 150 in 25.5 overs
--> RS Kaluwitharana 50 in 33 balls
--> PA de Silva 50 in 55 balls
--> SR Waugh 50 in 51 balls
--> DS Lehmann passed 1500 runs in List A matches when he reached 9
--> UDU Chandana achieved his best innings bowling analysis in ODI matches when he dismissed GD McGrath in the Australia innings (previous best was 3-38)
Match delayed by exactly 2 hours due to a soaked ground. Reduced to a 35 over per side match, 7 overs maximum per bowler, fielding restrictions for 10 overs.
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