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| Venue | Galle International Stadium, Galle on 22nd August 1999 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Australia won by 50 runs (Duckworth/Lewis method) |
| Points | Sri Lanka 0; Australia 2 |
| Umpires | EAR de Silva, PT Manuel |
| TV umpire | DN Pathirana |
| Referee | CW Smith |
| Player of the Match | JN Gillespie |
| Australia innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| +AC Gilchrist | run out (Jayawardene->Kaluwitharana) | 27 | 31 | 51 | 1 | 1 | 87.10 |
| ME Waugh | c Chandana b Perera | 28 | 33 | 45 | 3 | - | 84.85 |
| RT Ponting | st Kaluwitharana b Jayasuriya | 38 | 73 | 108 | 3 | - | 52.05 |
| DS Lehmann | run out (Vaas->Kaluwitharana) | 26 | 40 | 55 | 2 | - | 65.00 |
| TM Moody | st Kaluwitharana b Jayasuriya | 6 | 13 | 10 | - | - | 46.15 |
| *SR Waugh | b Jayasuriya | 6 | 7 | 5 | 1 | - | 85.71 |
| MG Bevan | not out | 42 | 44 | 60 | 3 | - | 95.45 |
| A Symonds | run out (de Saram) | 8 | 6 | 9 | 1 | - | 133.33 |
| SK Warne | c Chandana b Jayasuriya | 3 | 8 | 8 | - | - | 37.50 |
| JN Gillespie | st Kaluwitharana b Jayasuriya | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| DW Fleming | not out | 4 | 6 | 10 | - | - | 66.67 |
| Extras | (4 lb, 5 nb, 8 w) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 43 overs) | 205 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-60 (ME Waugh, 10.2 ov), 2-62 (Gilchrist, 10.5 ov), 3-110 (Lehmann, 23.1 ov), 4-119 (Moody, 26.2 ov), 5-127 (SR Waugh, 28.3 ov), 6-160 (Ponting, 36.5 ov), 7-170 (Symonds, 39.2 ov), 8-182 (Warne, 40.3 ov), 9-183 (Gillespie, 40.5 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Vaas | 9 | 0 | 61 | 0 | 3 | 3 | - | 6.78 |
| Zoysa | 8 | 2 | 39 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 4.88 |
| Perera | 7 | 0 | 25 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 42.00 | 3.57 |
| Muralitharan | 9 | 0 | 38 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.22 |
| Jayasuriya | 9 | 0 | 28 | 5 | - | - | 10.80 | 3.11 |
| Chandana | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | - | - | - | 10.00 |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *ST Jayasuriya | c Moody b Fleming | 1 | 6 | 10 | - | - | 16.67 |
| DA Gunawardene | c Gilchrist b Gillespie | 8 | 19 | 23 | 1 | - | 42.11 |
| MS Atapattu | b Gillespie | 5 | 11 | 30 | - | - | 45.45 |
| DPMD Jayawardene | c SR Waugh b Gillespie | 7 | 7 | 7 | 1 | - | 100.00 |
| SI de Saram | b Moody | 24 | 31 | 47 | 3 | - | 77.42 |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | c Gilchrist b Fleming | 33 | 46 | 56 | 4 | - | 71.74 |
| UDU Chandana | run out (Lehmann) | 30 | 48 | 61 | 1 | - | 62.50 |
| ASA Perera | c Bevan b Warne | 26 | 39 | 45 | 2 | 1 | 66.67 |
| WPUJC Vaas | not out | 5 | 9 | 16 | - | - | 55.56 |
| DNT Zoysa | c Lehmann b Warne | 4 | 3 | 4 | - | - | 133.33 |
| M Muralitharan | c Ponting b Lehmann | 2 | 8 | 8 | - | - | 25.00 |
| Extras | (4 b, 6 lb, 5 w) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 37.4 overs) | 160 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-7 (Jayasuriya, 1.5 ov), 2-17 (Gunawardene, 4.5 ov), 3-25 (Jayawardene, 6.2 ov), 4-41 (Atapattu, 8.2 ov), 5-78 (de Saram, 17.3 ov), 6-98 (Kaluwitharana, 22.3 ov), 7-145 (Chandana, 33.6 ov), 8-149 (Perera, 34.2 ov), 9-154 (Zoysa, 34.6 ov), 10-160 (Muralitharan, 37.4 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Gillespie | 6 | 1 | 26 | 3 | - | - | 12.00 | 4.33 |
| Fleming | 9 | 0 | 40 | 2 | 4 | - | 27.00 | 4.44 |
| Warne | 9 | 1 | 39 | 2 | 1 | - | 27.00 | 4.33 |
| Moody | 7 | 1 | 21 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 3.00 |
| Lehmann | 6.4 | 0 | 24 | 1 | - | - | 40.00 | 3.60 |
Notes
--> The match was reduced to 43 overs per side, Sri Lanka target was 211 runs
--> SI de Saram made his debut in ODI matches
--> A Symonds passed 2500 runs in List A matches when he reached 2
--> ASA Perera passed his previous highest score of 17 in ODI matches
--> AC Gilchrist made his debut in Sri Lanka in List A matches
--> AC Gilchrist made his debut in Sri Lanka in ODI matches
--> A Symonds made his debut in Sri Lanka in List A matches
--> A Symonds made his debut in Sri Lanka in ODI matches
--> DNT Zoysa made his debut in Sri Lanka in ODI matches
--> JN Gillespie achieved his best innings bowling analysis in ODI matches when he dismissed MS Atapattu in the Sri Lanka innings (previous best was 2-39)
Rain stopped play from 11:54am to 1:20pm at the fall of Lehmann's wicket. Match reduced to 43 overs per side and the lunch break shortened to 20 minutes.
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