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| Venue | Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney on 3rd February 1999 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | England won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Sri Lanka won by 11 runs |
| Points | England 0; Sri Lanka 2 |
| Umpires | AJ McQuillan, SJA Taufel |
| TV umpire | JI Cameron |
| Referee | PL van der Merwe |
| Reserve Umpire | PF Hughes |
| Player of the Match | TT Samaraweera |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| DA Gunawardene | st Crawley b Giles | 24 | 45 | 73 | 1 | - | 53.33 |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | c Gough b Alleyne | 54 | 87 | 108 | 5 | - | 62.07 |
| WPUJC Vaas | run out (Knight) | 14 | 14 | 27 | - | - | 100.00 |
| PA de Silva | not out | 52 | 52 | 84 | 3 | 1 | 100.00 |
| *A Ranatunga | c Hussain b Gough | 0 | 4 | 7 | - | - | 0.00 |
| DPMD Jayawardene | c BC Hollioake b Alleyne | 2 | 7 | 11 | - | - | 28.57 |
| MS Atapattu | lbw b Alleyne | 4 | 15 | 13 | - | - | 26.67 |
| UDU Chandana | c Giles b Wells | 0 | 7 | 5 | - | - | 0.00 |
| HP Tillakaratne | not out | 13 | 35 | 36 | 1 | - | 37.14 |
| GP Wickramasinghe | did not bat | ||||||
| TT Samaraweera | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 lb, 2 nb, 12 w) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, innings closed, 44 overs) | 181 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-71 (Gunawardene, 16.4 ov), 2-99 (Vaas, 22.5 ov), 3-109 (Kaluwitharana, 24.3 ov), 4-111 (Ranatunga, 25.5 ov), 5-122 (Jayawardene, 28.2 ov), 6-133 (Atapattu, 32.3 ov), 7-134 (Chandana, 33.6 ov) | |||||||
| England bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Gough | 9 | 2 | 35 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 54.00 | 3.89 |
| BC Hollioake | 4 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | 6.25 |
| Ealham | 9 | 2 | 30 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.33 |
| Giles | 5 | 0 | 31 | 1 | 3 | - | 30.00 | 6.20 |
| Alleyne | 9 | 1 | 27 | 3 | - | - | 18.00 | 3.00 |
| Wells | 8 | 1 | 29 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 3.62 |
| England innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| NV Knight | b Chandana | 58 | 109 | 137 | 2 | - | 53.21 |
| VJ Wells | b Samaraweera | 26 | 50 | 60 | 2 | - | 52.00 |
| GA Hick | b Samaraweera | 0 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| N Hussain | st Kaluwitharana b Tillakaratne | 9 | 24 | 29 | - | - | 37.50 |
| +JP Crawley | c Ranatunga b Samaraweera | 13 | 21 | 36 | 1 | - | 61.90 |
| MA Ealham | c sub (RS Mahanama) b Jayawardene | 0 | 3 | 11 | - | - | 0.00 |
| MW Alleyne | c Jayawardene b Chandana | 18 | 20 | 24 | 1 | - | 90.00 |
| *AJ Hollioake | st Kaluwitharana b Chandana | 13 | 17 | 33 | 1 | - | 76.47 |
| BC Hollioake | run out (Vaas) | 4 | 6 | 6 | - | - | 66.67 |
| AF Giles | not out | 10 | 10 | 13 | - | - | 100.00 |
| D Gough | not out | 1 | 3 | 5 | - | - | 33.33 |
| Extras | (1 b, 5 lb, 1 nb, 11 w) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 44 overs) | 170 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-53 (Wells, 16.2 ov), 2-53 (Hick, 16.4 ov), 3-74 (Hussain, 24.2 ov), 4-118 (Crawley, 32.6 ov), 5-119 (Knight, 34.2 ov), 6-122 (Ealham, 35.2 ov), 7-150 (Alleyne, 39.6 ov), 8-155 (BC Hollioake, 41.1 ov), 9-162 (AJ Hollioake, 42.4 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Vaas | 6 | 0 | 24 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.00 |
| de Silva | 9 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 3 | 1 | - | 2.78 |
| Samaraweera | 9 | 0 | 34 | 3 | - | - | 18.00 | 3.78 |
| Chandana | 9 | 0 | 35 | 3 | 2 | - | 18.00 | 3.89 |
| Tillakaratne | 5 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 2 | - | 30.00 | 4.40 |
| Jayawardene | 6 | 0 | 24 | 1 | - | - | 36.00 | 4.00 |
Notes
--> The match was reduced before play started to 44 overs per side
--> JP Crawley made his last appearance in ODI matches
--> RS Kaluwitharana 50 in 84 balls, 105 minutes with 4 fours
--> PA de Silva 50 in 50 balls, 84 minutes with 3 fours and 1 six
--> NV Knight 50 in 93 balls, 119 minutes
--> VJ Wells passed his previous highest score of 10 in ODI matches
--> MW Alleyne equalled his previous highest score of 18 in ODI matches
--> BC Hollioake made his debut in Australia in ODI matches
--> DA Gunawardene made his debut in Australia in ODI matches
--> TT Samaraweera made his debut in Australia in List A matches
--> TT Samaraweera made his debut in Australia in ODI matches
--> MW Alleyne achieved his best innings bowling analysis in ODI matches when he dismissed RS Kaluwitharana in the Sri Lanka innings (previous best was 0-7)
--> TT Samaraweera achieved his best innings bowling analysis in ODI matches when he dismissed GA Hick in the England innings (previous best was 1-35)
Start of match delayed by waterlogged ground to 4:15pm. Scheduled finishing time extended to 11:00pm and the dinner break reduced to 30 mins to start at 7:20pm. 44-over per side match to include 13 overs of fielding restrictions and a maximum of 9 overs per bowler.
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