Sri Lanka vs Australia, 2nd Test at Kandy, , Mar 16 2004 - Cricket Photos

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2nd Test, Kandy, March 16 - 20, 2004, Australia tour of Sri Lanka

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Australia

120 & 442

Sri Lanka

(T:352) 211 & 324

Australia won by 27 runs

Player Of The Match

Shane Warne

, AUS

5/65 & 5/90

Shane Warne and Ricky Ponting celebrate the Australian win•Mar 20, 2004•Hamish Blair/Getty Images

Adam Gilchrist celebrates as Kaushal Lokuarachchi in trapped in front•Mar 20, 2004•Hamish Blair/Getty Images

Shane Warne leaves the field at the end of the match after taking his 500th career wicket•Mar 20, 2004•Hamish Blair/Getty Images

Jason Gillespie is pretty happy after getting rid of Sanath Jayasuriya•Mar 19, 2004•Hamish Blair/Getty Images

Sanath Jayasuriya is ecstatic after smashing his hundred•Mar 19, 2004•Hamish Blair/Getty Images

Damien Martyn raises his bat on reaching 150•Mar 19, 2004•Hamish Blair/Getty Images

Damien Martyn drives•Mar 19, 2004•Hamish Blair/Getty Images

Ground staff pull out the covers•Mar 18, 2004•Hamish Blair/Getty Images

Ricky Ponting walks off after being given out wrongly•Mar 18, 2004•Hamish Blair/Getty Images

Damien Martyn exults on reaching his century•Mar 18, 2004•Hamish Blair/Getty Images

Jason Gillespie celebrates the wicket of Nuwan Zoysa•Mar 20, 2004•Hamish Blair/Getty Images

Australia celebrate as the last Sri Lankan wicket falls•Mar 20, 2004•Hamish Blair/Getty Images

Jason Gillespie is pretty happy after getting rid of Sanath Jayasuriya•Mar 19, 2004•Getty Images

Sanath Jayasuriya sweeps during his hundred•Mar 19, 2004•Hamish Blair/Getty Images

Muttiah Muralitharan gets a pad on the back after taking his fifth•Mar 19, 2004•Hamish Blair/Getty Images

Andrew Symonds drives•Mar 19, 2004•Hamish Blair/Getty Images

Ground staff use buckets to bail out the water•Mar 18, 2004•Gemunu Amarasinghe/Associated Press

Damien Martyn raises his bat and helmet•Mar 18, 2004•Hamish Blair/Getty Images

Chaminda Vaas, after he takes another wicket•Mar 18, 2004•Hamish Blair/Getty Images

Damien Martyn raises his bat on reaching his century•Mar 18, 2004•Hamish Blair/Getty Images

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Sri Lanka v Australia

Australia in Sri Lanka, 2003-04

'Our batting and catching let us down'

For Hashan Tillakaratne, it was the second time in consecutive Tests that he had let slip the initiative

'I don't think I could have bowled much better'

Shane Warne dashed Sri Lankan hopes quickly on the fifth morning, taking two of the three wickets as Australia wrapped up the win to take the series 2-0

Sri Lanka not quite there

The tree-lined ground at Kandy was the stage for some wonderful drama in the second Test, reaching its gripping peak this morning with a 28-run win for Australia

Warne and Gillespie star in Australian win

Australia needed just 6.1 overs on the fifth morning to complete victory at Kandy, as Shane Warne and Jason Gillespie struck in quick succession as Australia won by 27 runs to wrap up the series 2-0

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Sri Lanka Innings

PLAYER NAME		R	B
MS Atapattu	lbw	8	11
ST Jayasuriya	caught	131	145
DA Gunawardene	lbw	9	19
KC Sangakkara	caught	29	46
DPMD Jayawardene	caught	13	45
TM Dilshan	bowled	43	62
HP Tillakaratne	caught	7	15
WPUJC Vaas	caught	45	53
KS Lokuarachchi	lbw	16	34
DNT Zoysa	caught	0	6
M Muralidaran	not out	4	4
Extras	(b 4, lb 14, nb 1)
Total	324(10 wkts; 73.1 ovs)

PLAYER NAME	O	M	R	W	Econ
MS Kasprowicz	17	1	55	1	3.23
JN Gillespie	20	1	76	4	3.8
SK Warne	21.1	2	90	5	4.25
A Symonds	3	0	16	0	5.33
SCG MacGill	12	0	69	0	5.75 (1 nb)

WKT	RUNS	PLAYERS
1st	13	Marvan Atapattu	Sanath Jayasuriya
2nd	19	Sanath Jayasuriya	Avishka Gunawardene
3rd	62	Sanath Jayasuriya	Kumar Sangakkara
4th	76	Sanath Jayasuriya	Mahela Jayawardene
5th	44	Sanath Jayasuriya	Tillakaratne Dilshan
6th	21	Hashan Tillakaratne	Tillakaratne Dilshan
7th	35	Chaminda Vaas	Tillakaratne Dilshan
8th	45	Chaminda Vaas	Kaushal Lokuarachchi
9th	1	Nuwan Zoysa	Kaushal Lokuarachchi
10th	4	Muthiah Muralidaran	Kaushal Lokuarachchi

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