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| Venue | Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 22nd February 2008 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Australia won by 24 runs (Duckworth/Lewis method) |
| Points | Australia 5 (Bonus 1); Sri Lanka 0 |
| Umpires | RE Koertzen, SJA Taufel |
| TV umpire | RL Parry |
| Referee | JJ Crowe |
| Scorers | JKE Higgs, JA Howard |
| Reserve Umpire | GC Joshua |
| Player of the Match | MEK Hussey |
| Pictures | Adam Glichrist tries to stump Chamara Silva |
| Australia innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| +AC Gilchrist | b Vaas | 6 | 11 | 18 | - | - | 54.55 |
| ML Hayden | c Silva b Maharoof | 23 | 53 | 64 | 3 | - | 43.40 |
| *RT Ponting | run out (Maharoof->Sangakkara) | 11 | 34 | 58 | - | - | 32.35 |
| MJ Clarke | c and b Muralitharan | 50 | 69 | 118 | 4 | - | 72.46 |
| A Symonds | c Sangakkara b Maharoof | 4 | 6 | 15 | - | - | 66.67 |
| MEK Hussey | not out | 64 | 98 | 129 | 1 | - | 65.31 |
| JR Hopes | st Sangakkara b Muralitharan | 11 | 16 | 20 | - | - | 68.75 |
| GB Hogg | c Dilshan b Malinga | 4 | 4 | 6 | - | - | 100.00 |
| MG Johnson | not out | 6 | 9 | 11 | - | - | 66.67 |
| NW Bracken | did not bat | ||||||
| SR Clark | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 3 w) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, innings closed, 223 minutes, 50 overs) | 184 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-12 (Gilchrist, 4.3 ov), 2-39 (Hayden, 15.1 ov), 3-44 (Ponting, 17.6 ov), 4-54 (Symonds, 21.1 ov), 5-144 (Clarke, 42.1 ov), 6-166 (Hopes, 46.3 ov), 7-173 (Hogg, 47.5 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Vaas | 10 | 1 | 34 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.40 |
| Malinga | 10 | 1 | 44 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 4.40 |
| Maharoof | 10 | 1 | 20 | 2 | 1 | - | 30.00 | 2.00 |
| Muralitharan | 10 | 0 | 37 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 3.70 |
| Amerasinghe | 10 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 4.70 |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| MDK Perera | lbw b Clark | 1 | 11 | 15 | - | - | 9.09 |
| ST Jayasuriya | c Ponting b Clark | 0 | 1 | 5 | - | - | 0.00 |
| +KC Sangakkara | c Symonds b Hopes | 22 | 59 | 103 | - | - | 37.29 |
| *DPMD Jayawardene | c Gilchrist b Bracken | 27 | 45 | 57 | 3 | - | 60.00 |
| LPC Silva | not out | 16 | 47 | 54 | - | - | 34.04 |
| TM Dilshan | not out | 9 | 14 | 18 | - | - | 64.29 |
| MF Maharoof | did not bat | ||||||
| WPUJC Vaas | did not bat | ||||||
| SL Malinga | did not bat | ||||||
| MKDI Amerasinghe | did not bat | ||||||
| M Muralitharan | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 lb, 1 w) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 128 minutes, 29.3 overs) | 77 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Jayasuriya, 1.1 ov), 2-3 (Perera, 3.1 ov), 3-42 (Jayawardene, 16.2 ov), 4-64 (Sangakkara, 24.5 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Bracken | 6 | 1 | 13 | 1 | - | - | 36.00 | 2.17 |
| Clark | 5 | 1 | 8 | 2 | - | - | 15.00 | 1.60 |
| Johnson | 7 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 2.43 |
| Hopes | 7 | 2 | 23 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 3.29 |
| Hogg | 4.3 | 1 | 15 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.33 |