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| Venue | R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo on 31st August 1999 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Australia won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets |
| Umpires | BC Cooray, KT Francis |
| TV umpire | PT Manuel |
| Referee | CW Smith |
| Player of the Match | RS Kaluwitharana |
| Australia innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| +AC Gilchrist | c Jayawardene b Wickramasinghe | 21 | 16 | 25 | 4 | - | 131.25 |
| ME Waugh | b Muralitharan | 32 | 52 | 78 | 4 | - | 61.54 |
| RT Ponting | run out (de Saram->Kaluwitharana) | 18 | 37 | 56 | - | - | 48.65 |
| DS Lehmann | c and b Chandana | 21 | 34 | 58 | - | - | 61.76 |
| *SR Waugh | b Muralitharan | 43 | 68 | 73 | 3 | - | 63.24 |
| MG Bevan | b Chandana | 0 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 0.00 |
| A Symonds | not out | 22 | 39 | 64 | - | - | 56.41 |
| SK Warne | c Silva b Arnold | 21 | 32 | 28 | - | - | 65.62 |
| JN Gillespie | b Arnold | 14 | 16 | 13 | - | 1 | 87.50 |
| DW Fleming | st Kaluwitharana b Jayasuriya | 0 | 4 | 3 | - | - | 0.00 |
| GD McGrath | st Kaluwitharana b Jayasuriya | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 33.33 |
| Extras | (3 lb, 3 nb, 3 w) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 50 overs) | 202 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-37 (Gilchrist, 5.6 ov), 2-74 (ME Waugh, 16.6 ov), 3-75 (Ponting, 17.2 ov), 4-126 (Lehmann, 31.3 ov), 5-126 (Bevan, 31.4 ov), 6-144 (SR Waugh, 36.1 ov), 7-178 (Warne, 44.2 ov), 8-197 (Gillespie, 48.3 ov), 9-198 (Fleming, 49.2 ov), 10-202 (McGrath, 50 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Zoysa | 7 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | 4.43 |
| Arnold | 8 | 0 | 42 | 2 | 1 | - | 24.00 | 5.25 |
| Wickramasinghe | 8 | 0 | 24 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 3.00 |
| Muralitharan | 10 | 1 | 36 | 2 | - | 1 | 30.00 | 3.60 |
| Chandana | 10 | 0 | 33 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 3.30 |
| Jayasuriya | 7 | 0 | 33 | 2 | 1 | - | 21.00 | 4.71 |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| MS Atapattu | c Gilchrist b Fleming | 24 | 46 | 59 | 1 | - | 52.17 |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | not out | 95 | 117 | 179 | 12 | - | 81.20 |
| RP Arnold | b Gillespie | 47 | 57 | 90 | 3 | - | 82.46 |
| *ST Jayasuriya | not out | 26 | 23 | 28 | 4 | 1 | 113.04 |
| DPMD Jayawardene | did not bat | ||||||
| SI de Saram | did not bat | ||||||
| LPC Silva | did not bat | ||||||
| UDU Chandana | did not bat | ||||||
| GP Wickramasinghe | did not bat | ||||||
| M Muralitharan | did not bat | ||||||
| DNT Zoysa | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 lb, 6 nb, 5 w) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 39.3 overs) | 208 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-64 (Atapattu, 13.4 ov), 2-174 (Arnold, 33.2 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| McGrath | 7 | 0 | 47 | 0 | - | 4 | - | 6.71 |
| Gillespie | 9 | 0 | 37 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 54.00 | 4.11 |
| Fleming | 7 | 1 | 28 | 1 | 1 | - | 42.00 | 4.00 |
| Warne | 8 | 0 | 46 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 5.75 |
| Symonds | 3 | 0 | 14 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.67 |
| SR Waugh | 3 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 5.33 |
| Lehmann | 1.3 | 0 | 13 | 0 | - | - | - | 8.67 |
| Ponting | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | - | 1 | - | 2.00 |
Notes
--> RS Kaluwitharana 50 in 49 balls, 74 minutes with 9 fours
--> RP Arnold passed his previous highest score of 41 in ODI matches
Australia innings: 1x5 ball over (13th over, 7th by Zoysa)
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