Australia beat Sri Lanka by 63 runs

Font Size -

Agencies

Posted online: Friday , February 15, 2008 at 06:00:23
Updated: Friday , February 15, 2008 at 06:18:59

Perth, February 15: Adam Gilchrist’s swansong appearance at his home turf followed a perfect script as the retiring Australian struck his 16th ODI ton to guide the hosts to a 63-run victory over Sri Lanka in the cricket tri-series in Perth on Friday.

Gilchrist struck 118 on his final appearance at WACA before the Australian bowlers came up with a superlative show to help the side bag a bonus point as well before climbing to the top of the points table.

It was Gilchrist’s rather cultured 132-ball knock in the ground he has made his home that propped up the hosts who survived maverick Lasith Malinga’s four-wicket haul before being all out for 236 in 49.4 overs.

In reply, Sri Lanka never got going, losing wickets at regular intervals with only Kumar Sangakkara (80) putting up some semblance of a fight. The islanders were eventually shot out for a meagre 173 in 45.3 overs.

Australia’s pace duo of Nathan Bracken (3-21) and Mitchell Johnson (3-29) shared six wickets among them, one of those rare occasions when Brett Lee (1-49) was outshone by his colleagues.

Gilchrist was the obvious choice for the Man of the Match award even though his was a rather uncharacteristic knock today, sans the fireworks that has been the hallmark of his batting.

It was on three occasions that the he broke loose and every time the ball sailed over the ropes.

With this win, Australia now lead the table with 12 points from four matches, followed by India (8), while the Lankans have six points having played as many games.

Bookmark this Page

What is this?

Digg

On Digg, users share intersting online content by submitting links to the site. At that point, the Digg audience can vote on whether or not they think it is interesting. Articles with lots of votes, or "diggs," rise up higher on the site's main page and topical subsection pages. Another form of social sharing, this site also lets users categorize the content they are submitting to Digg and label it with descriptions of up to 350 characters. Digg users can also submit comments on each content item submitted to the site.

To register, go to: http://digg.com/register

del.icio.us

At its most basic level, del.icio.us allows users to save their bookmarks online. Del.icio.us also gives users the ability to "tag" their bookmarks with descriptive category names. For example, someone who has bookmarked multiple Web pages that deal with the Washington Nationals baseball team could tag those links with any terms they want, like "baseball," "nationals," "natsfan," etc.

As members of a "social bookmarking" community, del.icio.us sers can also see how many other people have bookmarked the same pages, and they can look at those users' bookmark collections to find other interesting online content.

To register, go to: http://del.icio.us/register

Reddit

Reddit allows users to submit news articles and other online content to the site. Users also give articles a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Reddit then uses those votes to build a user profile and to find articles to recommend to you. Users can also submit comments on items posted to the site.

To register, go to: http://reddit.com/login

Digg

My Yahoo

Fark

del.icio.us

Newsvine

Rate this Article

Rating

Post Comments

Name*		Email ID*
Subject*		Country*
Message*	Characters remaining

TERMS OF USE: The views represented here are not neccesarily endorsed by www.expressindia.com and its allied websites. All messages will be moderated and no message that has inflammatory, abusive, derogatory language or any language deemed unfit for publication by the editor will be displayed. Though it will be endeavoured that as many messages as possible be displayed, there will be time lag between the submission and publication of the messages. The website reserves the right to publish or reject any message.

I agree to the terms of use.