subject: Cricket Stats between Australia and Srilanka during the cricket world cup [print this page] Cricket Stats between Australia and Srilanka during the cricket world cup
Highlights of the Srilanka and Australia world cup matches
Match was played between the 2 strong favorites of the world cup on march 5th, 2011.
Toss was playing very crucial between and winning captain will definitely elect to bat first, so in this case, Sangakkara won the toss and elected to bat first, initially Srilanka lost both the openers and Mahela and Sanga provided a solid partnership and they recovered the early loss for Srilanka. Due to rain, the match was called off. This match was played in Solombo Cricket stadium
Following are the important stats that we get out of this Cricket match
1) This Kind of NO RESULT (NR) game became the seventh occasion as a NO RESULT game in the world cup history. The other six games are
a. India vs Sri Lanka at Mackay on 28.Feb.1992
b. England vs Pakistan at Adelaide on 01.Mar.1992
c. Kenya vs Zimbabwe at Patna on 26.Feb.1996
d. New Zealand vs Zimbabwe at Leeds on 06.June.1999
e. Bangladesh vs West Indies at Benoni on 18.Feb.2003
f. Zimbabwe vs Pakistan at Bulawayo on 04.Mar.2003
2) Cricket Australia consecutive winning streak of 24 world cup games under Ricky Ponting has ended with this NO RESULT (NR) game.
3) Kumar Sangakkara's 73 not out in this game provide the 120th occasion of a captain scoring a fifty in the world cup. Sangakkara knock represents the 16th occasion of a Sri Lankan captain scoring a half century in the world cup.
4) Kumar Sangakkkara knock of 73 not out in this game represent the second occasion of a captain-cum-wicket keeper scoring fifty in the world cup. The first occasion is credited to KC Sangakkara himself his 92 against Canada at Hambantota on 20.feb.2011
5) Kumar Sangakkara's 73 not out in this game provide the 62nd occasion of a wicket keeper batsman scoring a fifty in the world cup. This knock represents Sangakkara 6th half century in the world cup. Adam Gilchrist with nine fifties is ahead of KC Sangakkara. Adam Gilchrist and Kumar Sangakkara are the only two wicket keeper batsmen to score five or more fifties in the world cup
Once Australia completes the world cup they are immediately touring the Bangladesh for 3 ODI Cricket series
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