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Test no. 1194

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

1992 season

Played at Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo, on 17,18,19,21,22 August 1992 (5-day match)

Result Australia won by 16 runs


Australia 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	MA Taylor	lbw b Wickramasinghe	42	142	107	3	0	39.25
	TM Moody	lbw b Ramanayake	1	13	9	0	0	11.11
	DC Boon	c Ramanayake b Hathurusingha	32	118	80	3	0	40.00
	DM Jones	lbw b Hathurusingha	10	13	8	1	0	125.00
	ME Waugh	c Kaluwitharana b Hathurusingha	5	35	20	0	0	25.00
	AR Border	b Hathurusingha	3	20	15	0	0	20.00
	GRJ Matthews	lbw b Ramanayake	6	17	6	1	0	100.00
	IA Healy	not out	66	188	141	8	0	46.80
	CJ McDermott	c Ranatunga b Ramanayake	22	39	28	3	1	78.57
	SK Warne	c & b Anurasiri	24	75	59	3	0	40.67
	MR Whitney	c & b Wickramasinghe	13	65	57	1	0	22.80
	Extras	(lb 10, w 3, nb 19)	32

	Total	(all out; 84 overs)	256	(3.04 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-8 (Moody), 2-84 (Boon), 3-94 (Taylor), 4-96 (Jones), 5-109 (Border), 6-118 (Waugh), 7-124 (Matthews), 8-162 (McDermott), 9-207 (Warne), 10-256 (Whitney)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
CPH Ramanayake	20	4	51	3	2.55
GP Wickramasinghe	18	4	69	2	3.83
UC Hathurusingha	22	5	66	4	3.00
MAWR Madurasinghe	10	1	21	0	2.10
AP Gurusinha	2	0	17	0	8.50
SD Anurasiri	12	2	22	1	1.83


Sri Lanka 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	RS Mahanama	c Healy b Waugh	78	212	152	13	0	51.31
	UC Hathurusingha	c Taylor b Waugh	18	85	62	2	0	29.03
	AP Gurusinha	c Jones b Whitney	137	525	399	18	0	34.33
	PA de Silva	lbw b Matthews	6	12	9	1	0	66.66
	A Ranatunga	c Warne b Matthews	127	266	192	15	3	66.14
	MS Atapattu	b Matthews	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
	RS Kaluwitharana	not out	132	203	158	26	0	83.54
	CPH Ramanayake	c Healy b McDermott	0	37	25	0	0	0.00
	GP Wickramasinghe	c Matthews b McDermott	21	24	19	3	0	110.52
	MAWR Madurasinghe	not out	5	23	15	1	0	33.33
	Extras	(b 2, lb 7, w 1, nb 13)	23

	Total	(8 wickets dec; 170 overs)	547	(3.21 runs per over)

Did not bat SD Anurasiri

Fall of wickets1-36 (Hathurusingha), 2-128 (Mahanama), 3-137 (de Silva), 4-367 (Ranatunga), 5-367 (Atapattu), 6-463 (Gurusinha), 7-472 (Ramanayake), 8-503 (Wickramasinghe)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
CJ McDermott	40	9	125	2	3.12
MR Whitney	32	10	84	1	2.62
TM Moody	17	3	44	0	2.58
ME Waugh	17	3	77	2	4.52
SK Warne	22	2	107	0	4.86
GRJ Matthews	38	11	93	3	2.44
AR Border	4	1	8	0	2.00


Australia 2nd innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	TM Moody	b Ramanayake	13	76	56	0	0	23.21
	MA Taylor	c Gurusinha b Anurasiri	43	160	113	5	0	38.05
	DC Boon	c Ranatunga b Anurasiri	68	174	149	10	0	45.63
	DM Jones	run out	57	118	82	9	0	69.51
	ME Waugh	c Kaluwitharana b Wickramasinghe	56	109	79	4	0	70.88
	AR Border	c Gurusinha b Anurasiri	15	35	42	1	0	35.71
	GRJ Matthews	c Kaluwitharana b Ramanayake	64	195	129	9	0	49.61
	IA Healy	lbw b Hathurusingha	12	38	21	1	0	57.14
	CJ McDermott	lbw b Ramanayake	40	63	48	5	0	83.33
	SK Warne	b Anurasiri	35	98	82	5	0	42.68
	MR Whitney	not out	10	51	37	1	0	27.02
	Extras	(lb 23, w 1, nb 34)	58

	Total	(all out; 132 overs)	471	(3.56 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-41 (Moody), 2-107 (Taylor), 3-195 (Boon), 4-233 (Jones), 5-269 (Border), 6-319 (Waugh), 7-361 (Healy), 8-417 (McDermott), 9-431 (Matthews), 10-471 (Warne)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
CPH Ramanayake	37	10	113	3	3.05
GP Wickramasinghe	19	0	79	1	4.15
UC Hathurusingha	27	7	79	1	2.92
MAWR Madurasinghe	14	1	50	0	3.57
SD Anurasiri	35	3	127	4	3.62


Sri Lanka 2nd innings (target: 181 runs)			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	RS Mahanama	c Boon b Matthews	39	96	73	7	0	53.42
	UC Hathurusingha	run out	36	100	63	4	0	57.14
	AP Gurusinha	not out	31	135	88	4	0	35.22
	PA de Silva	c Border b McDermott	37	45	32	7	0	115.62
	A Ranatunga	c Border b McDermott	0	8	2	0	0	0.00
	MS Atapattu	b Matthews	1	5	2	0	0	50.00
	RS Kaluwitharana	b Matthews	4	5	5	1	0	80.00
	CPH Ramanayake	lbw b Matthews	6	33	16	1	0	37.50
	GP Wickramasinghe	c Waugh b Warne	2	10	5	0	0	40.00
	SD Anurasiri	c Waugh b Warne	1	11	11	0	0	9.09
	MAWR Madurasinghe	c Matthews b Warne	0	8	2	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(b 2, lb 3, nb 2)	7

	Total	(all out; 51.1 overs)	164	(3.20 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-76 (Mahanama), 2-79 (Hathurusingha), 3-127 (de Silva), 4-132 (Ranatunga), 5-133 (Atapattu), 6-137 (Kaluwitharana), 7-147 (Ramanayake), 8-150 (Wickramasinghe), 9-156 (Anurasiri), 10-164 (Madurasinghe)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
CJ McDermott	14	4	43	2	3.07
MR Whitney	5	2	13	0	2.60
TM Moody	5	0	10	0	2.00
ME Waugh	2	0	6	0	3.00
GRJ Matthews	20	2	76	4	3.80
SK Warne	5.1	3	11	3	2.12

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

Test debut RS Kaluwitharana (Sri Lanka)
Player of the match GRJ Matthews (Australia)

Umpires KT Francis and TM Samarasinghe
Match referee FJ Cameron (New Zealand)

Close of play
17 Aug day 1 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 9/0 (RS Mahanama 6*, UC Hathurusingha 3*)
18 Aug day 2 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 265/3 (AP Gurusinha 87*, A Ranatunga 69*)
19 Aug day 3 - Australia 2nd innings 26/0 (TM Moody 8*, MA Taylor 9*)
20 Aug rest day
21 Aug day 4 - Australia 2nd innings 393/7 (GRJ Matthews 51*, CJ McDermott 28*)
22 Aug day 5 - Sri Lanka 2nd innings 164 (51.1 ov) - end of match

Match notes

Day 3
A Ranatunga 127, 192 balls, 15x4, 3x6
RS Kaluwitharana 132*, 158 balls, 26x4

Day 5
Warne claims 3-0 in his last 13 balls of the innings

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