Hughes hundred ensures Australia draw series
On debut, Phillip Hughes scored a century to give Australia a 1-0 lead in this series. In the final game, he made another hundred to save Australia from series defeat and salvage a 2-2 result
23/01Result
5th ODI (D/N), Sri Lanka tour of Australia at Hobart, Jan 23 2013
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215 (48.3/50 ov)
Player of the Match
23/01Result
5th ODI (D/N), Sri Lanka tour of Australia at Hobart, Jan 23 2013
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![Australia]( "Australia")
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215 (48.3/50 ov)
Player of the Match
Match Centre
Statistics
Best performances - Batsmen
PJ Hughes
138(154) 13x4 - 1x6
Control %90%
- Productive Shot
- off side drive on front foot
- 50 runs
- 5x4 - 0x6
AD Mathews
67(79) 7x4 - 0x6
Control %81%
- Productive Shot
- off side drive on front foot
- 22 runs
- 3x4 - 0x6
Best performances - Bowlers
XJ Doherty
- O8
- M1
- R21
- W3
- Eco2.62
- FTFULL TOSS
- YYORKER
- FFULL LENGTH
- GGOOD LENGTH
- SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
- SSHORT LENGTH
MC Henriques
- O10
- M1
- R32
- W3
- Eco3.20
- FTFULL TOSS
- YYORKER
- FFULL LENGTH
- GGOOD LENGTH
- SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
- SSHORT LENGTH
Match Details
Toss
Sri Lanka , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Player Of The Series
Series result
5-match series drawn 2-2
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
14.20 start, First Session 14.20-17.50, Interval 17.50-18.35, Second Session 18.35-22.05
Match days
23 January 2013 - day/night match (50-over match)
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Scorecard Summary
AUSTRALIA 247/5 (50 OVERS)
- David Hussey34 (39)
- Phillip Hughes*138 (154)
- Tillakaratne Dilshan1/22 (7)
- Thisara Perera1/39 (6)
SRI LANKA 215 (48.3 OVERS)
- Mahela Jayawardene38 (39)
- Angelo Mathews67 (79)
- Xavier Doherty3/21 (8)
- Moises Henriques3/32 (10)
Scorer: S Balasubramanian | Commentator: Andrew Fernando
This series is shared, but there's more to come from the tour, when the first of two Twenty20s kicks off on the 26th at the SCG. Join us then for more commentary.
Looks like we can't bring the presentation to you today, but thanks for being with us. If I can hazard a guess I'd say Phil Hughes will win the man of the match, and Nuwan Kulasekara is the player of the series, but Hughes has an outside shot of taking that out too. Those would by my two picks anyway.
Dylan: "If you had to blame a period of Sri Lanka inning for the defeat, blame the 10 over block, the 17th to 26th over. 18 runs for 2 wickets in this section stalled their innings and caused unnecessary pressure to build. An extra 25 runs here would have helped."
So Australia have leveled it up. Mahela may feel he chose wrongly at the toss, given how difficult the pitch became for scoring in the second innings. Not the ideal send-off for him as captain, but he has been a terrific leader for Sri Lanka and he's got the team to a better place than he found it.
48.3
W
McKay to Malinga, OUT, slower again, and gone. Malinga pokes at that one and it lobs off the bat and into the hands of short third man, who takes a good low catch.
SL Malinga c Johnson b McKay 2 (10m 5b 0x4 0x6) SR: 40.00
48.3
1w
McKay to Malinga, 1 wide, loses control of that one, down the leg side
48.2
0
McKay to Malinga, no run, slower ball again, bounces just over the stumps. Malinga's cross-bat swipe gets nowhere near it.
48.1
0
McKay to Malinga, no run, a slower ball outside off stump, Malinga can't get bat to it
END OF OVER:48 | 14 Runs | SL: 214/9 (34 runs required from 12 balls, RR: 4.45, RRR: 17.00)
- Nuwan Kulasekara14 (11b)
- Lasith Malinga2 (2b)
- Mitchell Starc9-0-48-0
- Clint McKay9-0-50-1
47.6
4
Starc to Kulasekara, FOUR, picked off his pads and timed well to the square leg fence. Another good shot, but coming too late for Sri Lanka, you feel
47.6
1w
Starc to Kulasekara, 1 wide, Kulasekara moves back, but Starc goes wide of the off stump. Wide is called, but it seems harsh as that was inside the tram lines.
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