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Australia tour of Sri Lanka 2016 News

Series in hand

3

No. of consecutive bilateral ODI series wins for Australia in Sri Lanka, including this. They won the 2003-04 and 2011 series by margin of 3-2.

Fantastic Finch

18

No. of balls in which Finch reached his half-century - joint-quickest by an Australia batsman. S O'Donnell and Maxwell also scored fifties in 18 balls.

Hastings' high

1

No. of better bowling figures by an Australia bowler in ODIs in Sri Lanka, than Hasting's 6 for 45 in this match. Johnson took 6 for 31 in Pallekele in 2011.

Grabbing the opportunity

74

Previous highest score by a Sri Lanka batsman in his maiden innings as opener in ODIs, by Saman Jayantha in 2004. Dhananjaya has gone past that mark.

The change works

24

Runs scored by Dhananjaya de Silva in his first 4 ODI innings, before today. He had batted at No. 9 once and at No. 6 thrice. He is opening for the first time today.

Debut and gone

3

No. of SL players who got out for a duck on their ODI debut when opening, including Avishka Fernando today. Susil Fernando and Mahela Udawatte are the others.