Watch the highlights of Australia vs Sri Lanka - The 9th match of the 1995-96 Benson & Hedges World Series triangular cricket tournament between Australia and Sri Lanka played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on January 09, 1996.
Match Overview:
Manjula Munasinghe's three-wickets before Hard-hitting wicket-keeper Romesh Kaluwitharana's 81 and Roshan Mahanama's classy half-century helped to Sri Lanka to a three-wicket victory over Australia, despite Ricky Ponting's maiden century and Sri Lanka revived their hopes of reaching the final in the ninth match of a Benson and Hedges World Series.
Match Stats:
- Ricky Ponting became the fifth Australian batsman to score a century against Sri Lanka in ODIs.
- Ricky Ponting became the 14th Australian batsman to score a hundred in ODIs.
- Ricky Ponting's 123 was the eighth highest score for Australia in one-day international and the highest-score by an Australian batsman against Sri Lanka in ODIs, surpassing the previous record of 122 held by David Boon at Adelaide in the 1988 Benson & Hedges World Series Cup.
In-Depth Match Highlights:
* Sri Lanka revived their hopes of reaching the World Series final with a three-wicket victory over Australia after omitting spinner Muttiah Muralitharan in a further twist to the saga of his suspect bowling action.
Australia scored 213-5 in 50 overs with top scorer by Ricky Ponting cracked a career-best 123 off 138-balls - which was his 1st ODI hundred - including 7-fours & a six.
Michael Bevan hit a unbeaten 65 off 87-balls including 5-fours and Mark Taylor scored 9 off consuming 38-balls without a boundary.
Sri Lanka best bowler by Manjula Munasinghe picked up 3-wickets for 30-runs in 10-overs including three maidens with economy rate of 3.0 and Pramodya Wickramasinghe took one-wicket.
Sri Lanka chase down the target of 214 for 7 in 47.3 overs with top scorer by Romesh Kaluwitharana struck 77 off 75-balls including 12-fours.
Roshan Mahanama cracked a 51 off 71-balls including 4-fours, Aravinda de Silva struck 35 off 53-balls included a boundary and Kumar Dharmasena scored a unbeaten 28 off 57-balls contained a boundary.
Australia best bowler by Craig McDermott captured two-wickets, Michael Bevan, Shane Warne and Paul Reiffel each took one-wickets.
Romesh Kaluwitharana named Player of the match for his match-winning 77 off facing 75-balls including 12-fours.
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