Australia v Sri Lanka
Australia won by 5 wickets
21 December 1995Sydney
Australiawon by 5 wickets
257/549.4 ov
Sri Lanka
255/950 ov
Scorecard: every batter's and bowler's line, as the scorer kept it
Scorecard. For this match we hold every batter's and every bowler's line as the scorer's card kept it. The card does not name the fielder or the bowler for each dismissal, and older cards often leave balls faced blank (shown as -). There is no ball-by-ball record before December 2001. See the matches held ball by ball.
Sri Lanka innings
255/950 ov
| Batter | Dismissal | R | B | Mins | 4s | 6s | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roshan Mahanama | run out | 5 | 11 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 45.5 |
| Sanath Jayasuriya | caught | 24 | 26 | 33 | 4 | 0 | 92.3 |
| Asanka Gurusinha | caught | 38 | 58 | 93 | 4 | 0 | 65.5 |
| Aravinda de Silva | caught | 75 | 94 | 121 | 7 | 0 | 79.8 |
| Arjuna Ranatunga | run out | 7 | 14 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 50.0 |
| Hashan Tillakaratne | caught | 62 | 67 | 87 | 6 | 0 | 92.5 |
| Romesh Kaluwitharana | bowled | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Kumar Dharmasena | run out | 7 | 17 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 41.2 |
| Chaminda Vaas | run out | 14 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 100.0 |
| Pramodya Wickramasinghe | not out | 4* | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 133.3 |
| Muthiah Muralidaran | not out | 0* | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - |
| Extras | b 2, lb 11, w 5, nb 1 | 19 | |||||
| Total | 9 wickets, 50 overs | 255 | |||||
Fall of wicketsruns, 0 to 260
1-7 Roshan Mahanama2-32 Sanath Jayasuriya3-111 Asanka Gurusinha4-134 Arjuna Ranatunga5-173 Aravinda de Silva6-175 Romesh Kaluwitharana7-203 Kumar Dharmasena8-239 Chaminda Vaas9-253 Hashan Tillakaratne
| Bowler | O | M | R | W | Econ | Wd | Nb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenn McGrath | 10 | 1 | 47 | 2 | 4.70 | 0 | 1 |
| Michael Kasprowicz | 10 | 0 | 51 | 1 | 5.10 | 3 | 0 |
| Shane Lee | 10 | 0 | 40 | 1 | 4.00 | 1 | 0 |
| Shane Warne | 10 | 1 | 53 | 0 | 5.30 | 0 | 0 |
| Mark Waugh | 6 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 5.17 | 0 | 0 |
| Michael Bevan | 4 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 5.00 | 1 | 0 |
Australia innings chasing 256
257/549.4 ov
| Batter | Dismissal | R | B | Mins | 4s | 6s | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Taylor | run out | 90 | 115 | 165 | 6 | 0 | 78.3 |
| Michael Slater | caught | 10 | 13 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 76.9 |
| Mark Waugh | run out | 55 | 70 | 90 | 2 | 0 | 78.6 |
| Ricky Ponting | caught | 56 | 71 | 92 | 1 | 0 | 78.9 |
| Stuart Law | run out | 7 | 10 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 70.0 |
| Michael Bevan | not out | 18* | 16 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 112.5 |
| Shane Lee | not out | 4* | 7 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 57.1 |
| Extras | lb 13, w 4 | 17 | |||||
| Total | 5 wickets, 49.4 overs | 257 | |||||
Fall of wicketsruns, 0 to 260
1-23 Michael Slater2-131 Mark Waugh3-192 Mark Taylor4-212 Stuart Law5-239 Ricky Ponting
| Bowler | O | M | R | W | Econ | Wd | Nb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pramodya Wickramasinghe | 7 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 3.43 | 2 | 0 |
| Chaminda Vaas | 9 | 0 | 50 | 1 | 5.56 | 1 | 0 |
| Asanka Gurusinha | 2 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 6.00 | 0 | 0 |
| Arjuna Ranatunga | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 12.00 | 0 | 0 |
| Muthiah Muralidaran | 10 | 0 | 52 | 0 | 5.20 | 0 | 0 |
| Kumar Dharmasena | 8.4 | 0 | 41 | 1 | 4.73 | 1 | 0 |
| Sanath Jayasuriya | 8 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 4.38 | 0 | 0 |
| Aravinda de Silva | 4 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 4.50 | 0 | 0 |