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Test no. 1317

Sri Lanka in Australia Test Series - 1st Test
Australia v Sri Lanka

1995/96 season

Played at Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth, on 8,9,10,11 December 1995 (5-day match)

Result Australia won by an innings and 36 runs


Sri Lanka 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	RS Mahanama	c Warne b McDermott	15	80	52	1	0	28.84
	UC Hathurusingha	c Law b McGrath	14	41	32	2	0	43.75
	AP Gurusinha	b McGrath	46	157	140	4	0	32.85
	PA de Silva	c & b Warne	10	40	27	1	0	37.03
	A Ranatunga	c Healy b McGrath	32	79	54	2	1	59.25
	HP Tillakaratne	lbw b McDermott	6	68	51	0	0	11.76
	RS Kaluwitharana	c Taylor b Warne	50	90	74	7	0	67.56
	HDPK Dharmasena	b McDermott	30	92	72	4	0	41.66
	WPUJC Vaas	c Healy b Warne	4	12	7	0	0	57.14
	GP Wickramasinghe	c Julian b McGrath	28	38	32	5	0	87.50
	M Muralitharan	not out	0	1	0	0	0	-
	Extras	(b 4, lb 9, nb 3)	16

	Total	(all out; 89.4 overs)	251	(2.79 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-25 (Hathurusingha), 2-38 (Mahanama), 3-54 (de Silva), 4-129 (Gurusinha), 5-132 (Ranatunga), 6-172 (Tillakaratne), 7-193 (Kaluwitharana), 8-205 (Vaas), 9-251 (Wickramasinghe), 10-251 (Dharmasena)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
CJ McDermott	18.4	5	44	3	2.35
GD McGrath	24	3	81	4	3.37	(1nb)
BP Julian	17	8	32	0	1.88
SK Warne	27	7	75	3	2.77	(2nb)
ME Waugh	3	1	6	0	2.00


Australia 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	MJ Slater	c & b Muralitharan	219	460	321	15	5	68.22
	MA Taylor	lbw b de Silva	96	224	173	14	0	55.49
	DC Boon	c Hathurusingha b Muralitharan	13	60	50	1	0	26.00
	ME Waugh	c Kaluwitharana b Vaas	111	261	223	7	1	49.77
	RT Ponting	lbw b Vaas	96	236	184	8	0	52.17
	SG Law	not out	54	153	118	1	0	45.76
	Extras	(b 4, lb 6, nb 18)	28

	Total	(5 wickets dec; 174 overs)	617	(3.54 runs per over)

Did not bat

IA Healy, BP Julian, SK Warne, CJ McDermott, GD McGrath

Fall of wickets1-228 (Taylor), 2-266 (Boon), 3-422 (Slater), 4-496 (Waugh), 5-617 (Ponting)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
GP Wickramasinghe	31	3	123	0	3.96	(7nb)
WPUJC Vaas	31	5	103	2	3.32	(3nb)
M Muralitharan	54	3	224	2	4.14	(4nb)
UC Hathurusingha	9	3	31	0	3.44
HDPK Dharmasena	31	5	84	0	2.70
PA de Silva	18	1	42	1	2.33	(4nb)


Sri Lanka 2nd innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	RS Mahanama	b McGrath	48	128	97	6	0	49.48
	UC Hathurusingha	c Healy b McGrath	11	35	24	1	0	45.83
	AP Gurusinha	c Healy b McDermott	7	30	17	0	0	41.17
	PA de Silva	c Ponting b Warne	20	36	35	4	0	57.14
	A Ranatunga	b McGrath	46	114	64	6	1	71.87
	HP Tillakaratne	c Ponting b Warne	119	267	206	12	0	57.76
	RS Kaluwitharana	c Ponting b Julian	40	45	42	6	0	95.23
	HDPK Dharmasena	lbw b McDermott	18	87	63	3	0	28.57
	WPUJC Vaas	c Healy b Warne	4	20	19	1	0	21.05
	GP Wickramasinghe	c Warne b McDermott	0	4	3	0	0	0.00
	M Muralitharan	not out	3	10	4	0	0	75.00
	Extras	(lb 4, nb 10)	14

	Total	(all out; 93.4 overs)	330	(3.52 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-35 (Hathurusingha), 2-56 (Gurusinha), 3-87 (de Silva), 4-105 (Mahanama), 5-193 (Ranatunga), 6-258 (Kaluwitharana), 7-310 (Dharmasena), 8-318 (Vaas), 9-319 (Wickramasinghe), 10-330 (Tillakaratne)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
CJ McDermott	20	3	73	3	3.65	(10nb)
GD McGrath	24	7	86	3	3.58
SK Warne	29.4	6	96	3	3.23
BP Julian	13	4	40	1	3.07
ME Waugh	4	0	22	0	5.50
SG Law	3	1	9	0	3.00

Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to bat first
Series Australia led the 3-match series 1-0

Test debuts SG Law and RT Ponting (Australia)
Player of the match MJ Slater (Australia)

Umpires Khizer Hayat (Pakistan) and PD Parker
TV umpire BT Rennie
Match referee GT Dowling (New Zealand)

Close of play
8 Dec day 1 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 251
9 Dec day 2 - Australia 1st innings 358/2 (MJ Slater 189*, ME Waugh 36*, 90 ov)
10 Dec day 3 - Sri Lanka 2nd innings 13/0 (RS Mahanama 2*, UC Hathurusingha 7*, 4 ov)
11 Dec day 4 - Sri Lanka 2nd innings 330 (93.4 ov) - end of match

Match notes

Scorers: CA Bull (Aus) and S Wheeler (SL)
12th Men: MS Kasprowicz (Aus) and KR Pushpakumara (SL)

Day 1:
Attendance: 8138

Day 2:
MJ Slater 100 in 126 balls, 4x6.
Aus 200 in 45.3 overs at 4.39 runs per over.
Record 1st wicket partnership against SL by any team, highest partnership for the 1st wicket by any team at WACA.
MJ Slater 150 in 196 balls, 13x4, 4x6.
Australian 300 off 471 balls
MJ Slater highest Test score (previous best: 176 v England at Brisbane 1994/95)
Attendance: 7550

Day 3:
Attendance: 9078

Day 4
Warne claims his 200th wicket with the wicket of Vaas.
Tillekaratne's highest test score.
Attendance: 4119 (Total: 28885)