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| Venue | R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo on 30th August 1996 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Australia won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Sri Lanka won by 4 wickets |
| Points | Sri Lanka 2; Australia 0 |
| Umpires | SA Bucknor, CJ Mitchley |
| TV umpire | KT Francis |
| Referee | JR Reid |
| Player of the Match | PA de Silva |
| Australia innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| ME Waugh | c and b Jayasuriya | 50 | 55 | 87 | 7 | - | 90.91 |
| MJ Slater | run out (Chandana) | 9 | 19 | 24 | - | - | 47.37 |
| SG Law | c Tillakaratne b Dharmasena | 13 | 8 | 12 | 1 | - | 162.50 |
| MG Bevan | c Vaas b Chandana | 56 | 78 | 102 | 2 | - | 71.79 |
| SR Waugh | b Muralitharan | 22 | 36 | 45 | - | - | 61.11 |
| RT Ponting | not out | 46 | 57 | 79 | 1 | 1 | 80.70 |
| DS Lehmann | st Kaluwitharana b Chandana | 2 | 4 | 14 | - | - | 50.00 |
| *+IA Healy | c Ranatunga b Muralitharan | 8 | 16 | 16 | - | - | 50.00 |
| JN Gillespie | st Kaluwitharana b Chandana | 6 | 13 | 13 | - | - | 46.15 |
| DW Fleming | c Chandana b Jayasuriya | 3 | 6 | 5 | - | - | 50.00 |
| GD McGrath | not out | 8 | 12 | 17 | - | - | 66.67 |
| Extras | (3 lb, 2 nb) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 228 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-21 (Slater), 2-52 (Law), 3-97 (ME Waugh), 4-149 (SR Waugh), 5-157 (Bevan), 6-163 (Lehmann), 7-178 (Healy), 8-198 (Gillespie), 9-203 (Fleming) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Vaas | 7 | 0 | 29 | 0 | - | 2 | - | 4.14 |
| de Silva | 4 | 0 | 25 | 0 | - | 1 | - | 6.25 |
| Dharmasena | 9 | 0 | 49 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 5.44 |
| Muralitharan | 10 | 0 | 41 | 2 | - | 1 | 30.00 | 4.10 |
| Jayasuriya | 10 | 0 | 43 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 4.30 |
| Chandana | 10 | 0 | 38 | 3 | - | - | 20.00 | 3.80 |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| ST Jayasuriya | c Healy b Fleming | 44 | 28 | 58 | 8 | 1 | 157.14 |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | b SR Waugh | 8 | 13 | 14 | 1 | - | 61.54 |
| AP Gurusinha | run out (Lehmann) | 16 | 30 | 38 | 2 | - | 53.33 |
| PA de Silva | not out | 83 | 95 | 144 | 11 | - | 87.37 |
| *A Ranatunga | lbw b Fleming | 0 | 3 | 4 | - | - | 0.00 |
| HP Tillakaratne | lbw b Fleming | 1 | 10 | 10 | - | - | 10.00 |
| RS Mahanama | b McGrath | 50 | 78 | 95 | 3 | - | 64.10 |
| UDU Chandana | not out | 14 | 25 | 27 | 2 | - | 56.00 |
| HDPK Dharmasena | did not bat | ||||||
| WPUJC Vaas | did not bat | ||||||
| M Muralitharan | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 lb, 6 nb, 7 w) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, 45.5 overs) | 232 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-22 (Kaluwitharana), 2-78 (Gurusinha), 3-78 (Jayasuriya), 4-78 (Ranatunga), 5-81 (Tillakaratne), 6-196 (Mahanama) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| SR Waugh | 5 | 1 | 36 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 30.00 | 7.20 |
| Law | 2 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 11.50 |
| McGrath | 9.5 | 0 | 44 | 1 | - | 4 | 59.00 | 4.47 |
| Fleming | 8 | 1 | 26 | 3 | 1 | - | 16.00 | 3.25 |
| Gillespie | 6 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | 4.50 |
| ME Waugh | 5 | 0 | 29 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.80 |
| Lehmann | 6 | 0 | 26 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.33 |
| Bevan | 4 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.50 |
Notes
--> DS Lehmann made his debut in ODI matches
--> JN Gillespie made his debut in ODI matches
--> ME Waugh passed 8500 runs in List A matches when he reached 22
--> MG Bevan passed 1000 runs in ODI matches when he reached 45
--> JN Gillespie made his debut for Australia in List A matches
--> DS Lehmann made his debut for Australia in List A matches
--> JN Gillespie made his debut in Sri Lanka in List A matches
--> DS Lehmann made his debut in Sri Lanka in List A matches
--> UDU Chandana achieved his best innings bowling analysis in ODI matches when he dismissed DS Lehmann in the Australia innings (previous best was 1-40)
Man of the match adjudicator: MH Tissera
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