Player of the Match
Player of the Match

Match Day

2802dBrydon Coverdale

When the Pereras took centrestage

A Mitchell Starc special, Angelo Mathews' injury and a select club constitute our plays from the fourth ODI between Sri Lanka and Australia in Dambulla

1883dBrydon Coverdale

Loved every minute of captaincy - Warner

David Warner said he enjoyed his international captaincy debut, in the 3rd ODI against Sri Lanka, but hopes he can regain his batting form soon

Preview

2803dThe Preview by Andrew Fidel Fernando

SL seek revival against depleted Australia

Sri Lanka, trailing the ODI series 2-1, without Tillakaratne Dilshan will now take on Australia without Steven Smith, Nathan Coulter-Nile and the recently injured Shaun Marsh in the fourth ODI on Wednesday

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.