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| Venue | Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo on 30th September, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th October 1999 (5-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Australia won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | KT Francis, P Willey |
| TV umpire | EAR de Silva |
| Referee | CW Smith |
| Close of play day 1 | Australia (1) 203/4 (SR Waugh 10*, Ponting 11*; 88.2 overs) |
| Close of play day 2 | Australia (1) 318/7 (Ponting 90*, Fleming 23*; 126.2 overs) |
| Close of play day 3 | Australia (1) 342 all out |
| Close of play day 4 | Sri Lanka (1) 61/4 (de Silva 19*, Ranatunga 1*; 21.5 overs) |
| Player of the Match | RT Ponting |
| Australia first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GS Blewett | c Atapattu b Herath | 70 | 210 | 228 | 9 | - | |
| MJ Slater | st Kaluwitharana b Arnold | 59 | 144 | 191 | 6 | - | |
| JL Langer | c Ranatunga b Muralitharan | 32 | 82 | 86 | 3 | - | |
| ME Waugh | c Arnold b Muralitharan | 13 | 28 | 41 | 1 | - | |
| *SR Waugh | c Kaluwitharana b Herath | 14 | 69 | 70 | - | - | |
| RT Ponting | not out | 105 | 171 | 222 | 11 | - | |
| +IA Healy | c Jayawardene b Vaas | 7 | 38 | 38 | - | - | |
| SK Warne | lbw b Vaas | 0 | 4 | 9 | - | - | |
| DW Fleming | c Atapattu b Muralitharan | 32 | 78 | 99 | 3 | - | |
| CR Miller | lbw b Vaas | 0 | 4 | 9 | - | - | |
| GD McGrath | c Atapattu b Vaas | 0 | 2 | 3 | - | - | |
| Extras | (10 nb) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 506 minutes, 136.4 overs) | 342 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-126 (Slater, 52.4 ov), 2-147 (Blewett, 64.4 ov), 3-182 (ME Waugh, 75.1 ov), 4-183 (Langer, 77.1 ov), 5-221 (SR Waugh, 96.3 ov), 6-253 (Healy, 106.4 ov), 7-255 (Warne, 108.2 ov), 8-335 (Fleming, 133.6 ov), 9-342 (Miller, 136.2 ov), 10-342 (McGrath, 136.4 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Vaas | 23.4 | 5 | 54 | 4 | - | 1 | |
| Zoysa | 10 | 4 | 23 | 0 | - | - | |
| Herath | 35 | 10 | 98 | 2 | - | - | |
| Muralitharan | 52 | 5 | 150 | 3 | - | 9 | |
| Jayasuriya | 9 | 2 | 14 | 0 | - | - | |
| Arnold | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | - | - | |
| Sri Lanka first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *ST Jayasuriya | c Warne b McGrath | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| MS Atapattu | c Healy b Fleming | 2 | 11 | 14 | - | - | |
| RP Arnold | lbw b Fleming | 0 | 9 | 23 | - | - | |
| PA de Silva | not out | 19 | 59 | 77 | 1 | - | |
| DPMD Jayawardene | c Healy b Fleming | 21 | 52 | 63 | 3 | - | |
| A Ranatunga | not out | 1 | 3 | 4 | - | - | |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | did not bat | ||||||
| WPUJC Vaas | did not bat | ||||||
| HMRKB Herath | did not bat | ||||||
| DNT Zoysa | did not bat | ||||||
| M Muralitharan | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (8 b, 1 lb, 4 nb, 5 w) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 92 minutes, 21.5 overs) | 61 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Jayasuriya, 0.1 ov), 2-7 (Atapattu, 3.1 ov), 3-10 (Arnold, 5.1 ov), 4-60 (Jayawardene, 21.2 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| McGrath | 10 | 3 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| Fleming | 5.5 | 0 | 14 | 3 | - | - | |
| Warne | 5 | 1 | 11 | 0 | - | - | |
| Miller | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | - | - | |