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| Australia innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| AC Gilchrist† | lbw b Kapugedera | 61 | 136 | 81 | 3 | 1 | 75.30 | |
| ML Hayden | c Jayawardene b Amerasinghe | 42 | 57 | 50 | 5 | 0 | 84.00 | |
| RT Ponting* | c Jayawardene b Vaas | 9 | 34 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 40.90 | |
| MJ Clarke | not out | 77 | 126 | 86 | 2 | 1 | 89.53 | |
| A Symonds | c Kapugedera b Vaas | 12 | 19 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 70.58 | |
| MEK Hussey | c Dilshan b Amerasinghe | 10 | 23 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 76.92 | |
| JR Hopes | c Dilshan b Malinga | 34 | 36 | 29 | 2 | 0 | 117.24 | |
| B Lee | not out | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 2, w 6) | 8 | ||||||
| Total | (6 wickets; 50 overs) | 253 | (5.06 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat NW Bracken, GB Hogg, MG Johnson |
| Fall of wickets 1-65 (Hayden, 12.5 ov), 2-88 (Ponting, 19.5 ov), 3-139 (Gilchrist, 31.4 ov), 4-160 (Symonds, 36.4 ov), 5-190 (Hussey, 41.4 ov), 6-253 (Hopes, 49.4 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| WPUJC Vaas | 10 | 1 | 34 | 2 | 3.40 | |||
| SL Malinga | 10 | 0 | 55 | 1 | 5.50 | (1w) | ||
| MKDI Amerasinghe | 10 | 0 | 66 | 2 | 6.60 | (1w) | ||
| M Muralitharan | 10 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 4.20 | |||
| CK Kapugedera | 10 | 0 | 54 | 1 | 5.40 |
| Sri Lanka innings (target: 254 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| WU Tharanga | c †Gilchrist b Bracken | 10 | 23 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 55.55 | |
| ST Jayasuriya | b Lee | 7 | 21 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 53.84 | |
| KC Sangakkara† | lbw b Bracken | 42 | 65 | 41 | 7 | 0 | 102.43 | |
| DPMD Jayawardene* | c †Gilchrist b Johnson | 6 | 29 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 37.50 | |
| LPC Silva | c †Gilchrist b Hogg | 7 | 39 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 21.87 | |
| TM Dilshan | c Lee b Bracken | 14 | 17 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 140.00 | |
| CK Kapugedera | c Hayden b Bracken | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| WPUJC Vaas | run out (Ponting) | 18 | 34 | 30 | 3 | 0 | 60.00 | |
| SL Malinga | run out (Symonds) | 2 | 17 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 | |
| M Muralitharan | c Symonds b Bracken | 11 | 17 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 78.57 | |
| MKDI Amerasinghe | not out | 0 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 3, w 4, nb 1) | 8 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 31.3 overs) | 125 | (3.96 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| B Lee | 7 | 1 | 34 | 1 | 4.85 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| NW Bracken | 8.3 | 0 | 47 | 5 | 5.52 | (1w) | ||
| MG Johnson | 5 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 1.80 | (1w) | ||
| JR Hopes | 5 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 3.00 | |||
| GB Hogg | 6 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 2.83 | (1w) |
| Match details |
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Toss Australia, who chose to bat Points Australia 5, Sri Lanka 0 |
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Player of the match
NW Bracken (Australia) |
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Umpires
AL Hill (New Zealand) and SJA Taufel TV umpire PD Parker Match referee JJ Crowe (New Zealand) Reserve umpire GA Abood |
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Feb 8, 2008 Muttiah Muralitharan in action at the SCG © Getty Images |
Feb 8, 2008 Kumar Sangakkara pulls during his 42 © Getty Images |
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