Match : Australia vs Srilanka
Venue : Melbourne cricket ground, Australia.
Date : 29 February, 2008.. an Day/Night ODI.
Debuts : none.
ODI no. : 2687 overall.
Toss : Srilanka, elected to bat.
Result : Srilanka won by 13 runs.
Series : Game 11, triseries in Australia, Feb-Mar 2008
Man of Match : Adam Gilchrist.
Umpires : Darell Harper & Tony Hill
Everybody criticized the pitch at Melbourne cricket ground (MCG) which, for the 3rd straight time, produced a low scoring match. Srilankans had already packed their bags to catch flight back home inside 2 hours of this match finished, but they managed to defend their total in this last league game of Commonwealth bank triseries in 2008, which must have improved the moral of Lankan team who now go to West Indies for a full tour.
| Srilanka (50 over innings) | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | St Rate |
| Dilruwan Perera | lbw b Lee | 5 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 42 |
| Sanath Jayasuriya | c Hussey b Bracken | 23 | 32 | 2 | 1 | 72 |
| Kumar Sangakkara | c Hussey b Johnson | 11 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 42 |
| Mahela Jayawardene | lbw b Hogg | 50 | 66 | 5 | 0 | 76 |
| Chamra Kapugedara | c Gilchrist b Hopes | 2 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Tillakratne Dilshan | run out (Hopes) | 62 | 70 | 3 | 0 | 89 |
| Chamara Silva | c Johnson b Bracken | 35 | 48 | 4 | 0 | 73 |
| Nuwan Kulasekhera | b Bracken | 14 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 64 |
| Lasith Malinga | c Hopes b Lee | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muthiah Muralitharan | b Bracken | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| Ishara Amerasinghe | not out | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 250 |
| Extras | (lb=1, wd=8, nb=4) | 13 |
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| Total | (all out, 50 overs) | 221 | (4.42 runs per over) |
| Fall of wkt : 1-12 (Perera, 4.4 ov), 2-32 (Jayasuriya, 9.2 ov), 3-42 (Sanga, 12.3 ov) |
| 4-61 (Kapugedara, 19.5 ov), 5-125 (Jayawardene, 31.6 ov), 6-186 (Dilshan, 44.2 ov) |
| 7-206 (Silva, 47.4 ov), 8-208 (Malinga, 48.2 ov), 9-212 (Muralitharan, 49.2 ov). |
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| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ |
| Brett Lee (2 no balls, 2 wides) | 10 | 1 | 55 | 2 | 5.5 |
| Nathan Bracken | 10 | 3 | 29 | 4 | 2.9 |
| Mitchell Johnson (2 no balls, 2 wides) | 10 | 1 | 54 | 1 | 5.4 |
| James Hopes | 8 | 0 | 32 | 1 | 4.1 |
| Brad Hogg | 10 | 1 | 33 | 1 | 3.3 |
| Michael Clarke (2 wides) | 2 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 8.5 |
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| Australia (target 222 in 50 overs) | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | St Rate |
| Adam Gilchrist | c Malinga b Kulasekera | 83 | 50 | 11 | 2 | 166 |
| James Hopes | b Muralitharan | 28 | 42 | 3 | 0 | 67 |
| Ricky Ponting © | lbw b Kulasekera | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Michael Clarke | b Amerasinghe | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Andrew Symonds | c Sang'kara b Amerasinghe | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Michael Hussey | b Kapugedara | 5 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Brad Haddin | lbw b Malinga | 7 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 53 |
| Brad Hogg | lbw b Muralitharan | 21 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 60 |
| Brett Lee | b Jayasuriya | 37 | 59 | 2 | 1 | 63 |
| Michell Johnson | c Jaya'dene b Amerasinghe | 3 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
| Nathan Bracken | not out | 14 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 54 |
| Extras | (lb=3, wd=6) | 9 |
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| Total | (all out, 48.1 overs) | 208 | (4.31 runs per over) |
| Fall' wkts : 1-107 (Hopes, 14.4 ov), 2-113 (Gilchrist, 15.4 ov), 3-115 (Clarke, 18.3 ov) |
| 4-115 (Ponting, 19.3 ov), 5-115 (Symonds, 20.1 ov), 6-123 (Haddin, 23.2 ov), |
| 7-142 (Hussey, 29.3 ov), 8-158 (Hogg, 34.5 ov), 9-173 (Johnson, 39.1 ov) & Lee |
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| Bowling |
| O | M | R | W | Econ |
| Lasith Malinga | (2 wides) | 9 | 1 | 48 | 1 | 5.3 |
| Nuwan Kulasekhera |
| 10 | 3 | 36 | 2 | 3.6 |
| Ishara Amerasinghe | (1 wide) | 10 | 2 | 44 | 3 | 4.4 |
| Muthiah Muralitharan | (1 wide) | 10 | 0 | 54 | 2 | 4.2 |
| Chamra Kapugedara | (2 wides) | 6 | 0 | 42 | 1 | 4.1 |
| Dilruwan Parera |
| 3 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 3.7 |
| Sanath Jayasuriya |
| 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
