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Match Date : March 17, 1996
Venue : Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
Toss : Sri Lanka won the toss and elect to field
Umpires : Steve Bucknor and David Shepherd
Match Result : Sri Lanka won by 7 wickets to lift the ICC World Cup 1996
Man of the Match : Aravinda de Silva
Player of the Tournament : Sanath Jayasuriya
Australia (50 Overs Maximum)
Mark Taylor (C) c Jayasuriya b Aravinda de Silva 74 (83) 8 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Mark Waugh c Jayasuriya b Chaminda Vaas 12 (15) 1 ‘4s’
Ricky Ponting b Aravinda de Silva 45 (73) 2 ‘4s’
Steve Waugh c Aravinda b Kumar Dharmasena 13 (25)
Shane Warne st Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan 2 (5)
Stuart Law c Aravinda b Sanath Jayasuriya 22 (30) 1 ‘6s’
Michael Bevan not out 36 (49) 2 ‘4s’
Ian Healy (WK) b Aravinda de Silva 2 (3)
Paul Reiffel not out 13 (18)
Damien Fleming
Glenn McGrath
Extras : 22 (Wides: 11 No Balls: 1 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 10)
Total : 241/7 (Overs: 50.0)
Fall of Wickets : 1-36 (Mark Waugh), 2-137 (Taylor), 3-152 (Ponting), 4-156 (Warne), 5-170 (Steve Waugh), 6-202 (Law), 7-205 (Healy)
Sri Lanka Bowling
Pramodaya Wickramasinghe 7-0-38-0 (2wd)
Chaminda Vaas 6-1-30-1
Muttiah Muralitharan 10-0-31-1 (1wd)
Kumar Dharmasena 10-0-47-1 (1nb)
Sanath Jayasuriya 8-0-43-1 (5wd)
Aravinda de Silva 9-0-42-3 (3wd)
Sri Lanka (Target : 242 from 50 Overs)
Sanath Jayasuriya run out 9 (7) 1 ‘4s’
Romesh Kaluwitharana (WK) c Bevan b Damien Fleming 6 (13)
Asanka Gurusinha b Paul Reiffel 65 (99) 6 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Aravinda de Silva not out 107 (124) 13 ‘4s’
Arjuna Ranatunga (C) not out 47 (37) 4 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Hashan Tillakaratne
Roshan Mahanama
Kumar Dharmasena
Chaminda Vaas
Pramodya Wickramasinghe
Muttiah Muralitharan
Extras : 11 (Wides : 5 No Balls: 1 Byes: 1 Leg Byes: 4)
Total : 245/3 (Overs : 46.2)
Fall of Wickets : 1-12 (Jayasuriya), 2-23 (Kaluwitharana), 3-148 (Gurusinha)
Australia Bowling
Glenn McGrath 8.2-1-28-0
Damien Fleming 6-0-43-1 (4wd)
Shane Warne 10-0-58-0 (1wd 1nb)
Paul Reiffel 10-0-49-1
Mark Waugh 6-0-35-0
Steve Waugh 3-0-15-0 (1nb)
Michael Bevan 3-0-12-0