Malinga and Mathews complete a miracle win against Australia at MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground
November 03, 2010

Lasith Malinga and Angelo Mathews helped Sri Lanka fought one of the best fights against Australia to win the first ODI by one wicket. Having reduced to 107/8, Malinga and Mathews scored the highest ninth wicket partnership in the history of one day cricket to beat Australia by 1 wicket.

Scorecard

Australia vs Sri Lanka - First ODI
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne
November 03, 2010
Day/Night match

Result: Sri Lanka won by 1 wickets
Toss: Australia won the toss and chose to bat first.
Sri Lanka lead the 3 match ODI series 1-0
Player of the match: Angelo Mathews

Australia Innings		Runs	Balls	4s	6s	SR
Shane Watson	c Chamara Silva b Lasith Malinga	10	20	0	0	50.00
Brad Haddin (wk)	c Tillakaratne Dilshan b Thissara Perera	49	55	8	0	89.09
Michael Clarke (captain)	c Kumar Sangakkara b Thissara Perera	27	31	3	0	87.09
Michael Hussey	not out	71	91	1	0	78.02
Cameron White	b Thissara Perera	0	1	0	0	0.00
Shaun Marsh	c Kumar Sangakkara b Suraj Randiv	31	53	0	0	58.49
Steven Smith	c Kumar Sangakkara b Thissara Perera	12	15	1	0	80.00
Mitchell Johnson	b Nuwan Kulasekara	10	17	0	0	58.82
John Hastings	b Thissara Perera	16	15	1	0	106.66
Xavier Doherty	not out	3	2	0	0	150.00
Peter Siddle
Extras	b 1, lb 5, w 4	10
		239 / 8 (50.0 overs)

Fall of Wickets
1-30 (Watson, 6.2 ov)	2-85 (Clarke, 16.5 ov)
3-88 (Haddin, 18.5 ov)	4-88 (White, 18.6 ov)
5-155 (Marsh, 35.2 ov)	6-178 (Smith, 40.2 ov)
7-204 (Johnson, 45.2 ov)	8-235 (Hastings, 49.3 ov)

	Overs	Runs	Wickets	Economy	Extras
Lasith Malinga	10.0	39	1	3.90	3w
Nuwan Kulasekara	10.0	60	1	6.00
Thissara Perera	8.0	46	5	5.75	1w
Muttiah Muralitharan	9.0	36	0	4.00
Suraj Randiv	9.0	35	1	3.88
Tillakaratne Dilshan	4.0	17	0	4.25

Sri Lanka Innings		Runs	Balls	4s	6s	SR
Upul Tharanga	run out (Xavier Doherty)	3	18	0	0	16.66
Tillakaratne Dilshan	c Michael Hussey b Peter Siddle	7	6	1	0	116.66
Kumar Sangakkara (captain, wk)	b Xavier Doherty	49	46	6	0	106.52
Mahela Jayawardene	lbw Xavier Doherty	19	27	2	0	70.37
Chamara Silva	c Shane Watson b Xavier Doherty	4	8	0	0	50.00
Angelo Mathews	not out	77	84	8	1	91.66
Thissara Perera	b Mitchell Johnson	0	4	0	0	0.00
Suraj Randiv	run out (Mitchell Starc / Steven Smith)	10	21	0	0	47.61
Nuwan Kulasekara	lbw Xavier Doherty	0	2	0	0	0.00
Lasith Malinga	run out (Steven Smith)	56	48	6	2	116.66
Muttiah Muralitharan	not out	4	2	1	0	200.00
Extras	b 2, w 12	14
		243 / 9 (44.2 overs)

Fall of Wickets
1-10 (Dilshan, 3.3 ov)	2-19 (Tharanga, 5.1 ov)
3-73 (Jayawardene, 15.2 ov)	4-84 (Silva, 17.2 ov)
5-84 (Sangakkara, 17.3 ov)	6-86 (Perera, 18.3 ov)
7-107 (Randiv, 24.6 ov)	8-107 (Kulasekara, 25.2 ov)
9-239 (Malinga, 43.4 ov)

	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Economy	Extras
Mitchell Johnson	10.0	1	68	1	6.80	5w
Peter Siddle	8.0	0	51	1	6.37	1w
Shane Watson	6.2	0	39	0	6.15	1w
John Hastings	6.0	0	27	0	4.50	3w
Xavier Doherty	10.0	1	46	4	4.60	2w
Steven Smith	3.0	0	8	0	2.66
Michael Clarke	1.0	0	2	0	2.00

Umpires	Marais Erasmus, Paul Reiffel
TV Umpire	Bruce Oxenford
Match Referee	Chris Broad
Reserve Umpire	Bob Parry

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