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Finch scores joint-fastest Australian ODI fifty

Stats highlights from the fourth ODI in Dambulla where Australia won by six wickets to seal the series

Bharath Seervi
31-Aug-2016
7 Australia's run rate in their chase of 213 in this ODI, their second-highest in a successful chase of 200 or more in ODIs. The only time they had a higher run rate was against Bangladesh in Dhaka in 2010-11 - 8.92 when they chased down 230 in only 26 overs.
1 Better figures by an Australia bowler in ODIs against Sri Lanka than John Hastings' 6 for 45 in this match. Mitchell Johnson had taken 6 for 31 in Pallekele in 2011. This was a maiden five-wicket haul for Hastings in ODIs bettering his previous best figures of 4 for 58 against India at the MCG earlier this year.
18 Balls in which Aaron Finch brought up his fifty - joint-fastest by an Australia batsman in ODIs. Simon O'Donnell against Sri Lanka in Sharjah in 1990 and Glenn Maxwell against India in Bangalore in 2013-14 also completed fifties in 18 balls. Click here for fastest ODI half-centuries.
8.1 Overs in which Australia made 100 runs, their quickest in ODIs and fourth-fastest for any team. Australia's previous quickest team 100 was in 10 overs against Bangladesh in Dhaka in 2010-11.
62.41 George Bailey's average in ODIs in Asia - the best by any batsman with 15 or more innings in the continent. He has a century and six fifties in 17 innings in the subcontinent. He averages only 38.95 in ODIs in Australia.
24 Runs made by Dhananjaya de Silva in his first four ODIs, batting at Nos. 9 and 6. He made more than thrice of those runs in this match when opening for the first time - 76.
74 Previous highest score by a Sri Lanka batsman in his maiden ODI innings as opener, by Saman Jayantha in 2003-04. De Silva went past that by making 76.
3.03 Amila Aponso's economy rate in his first three ODIs - 89 runs in 29.2 overs, including seven wickets. He went wicketless in this match and conceded at 7.37 per over - 59 runs in eight overs.
3 Wickets by Mitchell Starc in the first over of this series - most by any Australia bowler in a bilateral ODI series. He took a wicket in the first over in three of the four matches.

Bharath Seervi is stats sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo. @SeerviBharath