Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 1999

Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 1999
	Sri Lanka	Australia
Test series
Result	Sri Lanka won the 3-match series 1–0

Tour matches

List A: Sri Lanka Board XI vs Australia XI

19 August Scorecard

Sri Lanka Board XI 208/5 (50 overs)	v	Australia 212/5 (45.1 overs)
Sajith Fernando 67 (96) Glenn McGrath 2/17 (7 overs)		Ricky Ponting 60* (106) Russel Arnold 2/43 (8.1 overs)

Australians won by 5 wickets (with 29 balls remaining) Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: TM Samarasinghe (Sri) and EKG Wijewardena (NZ)

• Sri Lanka Board XI won the toss and elected to bat

ODI series

1st ODI

22 August Scorecard

Australia  205/9 (43 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 160 (37.4 overs)
Michael Bevan 43 (44) Sanath Jayasuriya 5/28 (9 overs)		Romesh Kaluwitharana 33 (46) Jason Gillespie 3/26 (6 overs)

Australia won by 50 runs (D/L method) Galle International Stadium, Galle Umpires: Asoka De Silva (Sri) and Peter Manuel (Sri) Player of the match: Jason Gillespie (Aus)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field
• Rain stopped play from 11:54am to 1:20pm at the fall of Lehmann's wicket. Match reduced to 43 overs per side and the lunch break shortened to 20 minutes.
• Indika de Saram (Sri) made his ODI debut.

Test series

Sri Lanka won the three-match Test series 1-0 with 2 draws. Their win in the first match was their first victory against Australia in Tests.[1]

1st Test

9–11 September 1999 Scorecard

Australia	v	Sri Lanka
188 (67.1 overs) RT Ponting 96 (160) M Muralitharan 4/63 (25.1 overs)		234 (66.3 overs) PA de Silva 78 (146) SK Warne 5/52 (16 overs)
140 (60.2 overs) RT Ponting 51 (118) WPUJC Vaas 3/15 (15 overs)		95/3 (26.5 overs) PA de Silva 31* (70) CR Miller 3/48 (13 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 6 wickets Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy Umpires: PT Manuel (SL) and S Venkataraghavan (IND) Player of the match: PA de Silva (SL) and RT Ponting (AUS)

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
• The match was scheduled for five days but completed in three.

2nd Test

22–26 September 1999 Scorecard

Sri Lanka	v	Australia
296 (106.5 overs) PA de Silva 64 (162) SK Warne 3/29 (25 overs)		228 (96.3 overs) MJ Slater 96 (220) M Muralitharan 5/71 (38 overs)
55/0 (17.2 overs) MS Atapattu 28* (61)

Match drawn Galle International Stadium, Galle Umpires: BC Cooray (SL) and DB Cowie (NZ) Player of the match: MJ Slater (AUS)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
• There was no play on the fourth day.
• HMRKB Herath (SL) made his Test debut.

3rd Test

30 September–4 October 1999 Scorecard

Australia	v	Sri Lanka
342 (136.4 overs) RT Ponting 105* (171) WPUJC Vaas 4/54 (23.4 overs)		61/4 (21.5 overs) DPMD Jayawardene 21 (52) DW Fleming 3/14 (5.5 overs)

Match drawn Singhalese Sports Club Cricket Ground, Colombo Umpires: KT Francis (SL) and P Willey (AUS) Player of the match: RT Ponting (AUS)

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
• There was no play on the final day.

External links

Series home at ESPN Crickinfo

References

1. "The original Indian hero". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 12 September 2017.