Sri Lankan cricket team in Australia in 1995–96

The Sri Lanka national cricket team toured Australia in the 1995-96 season and played 3 Test matches against Australia. Australia won the series 3-0.

The second Test had controversy when umpire Darryl Hair called Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan for throwing.^[1]

Series summary

1st Test: WACA Ground – Australia won by an innings and 36 runs
2nd Test: Melbourne Cricket Ground – Australia won by 10 wickets
3rd Test: Adelaide Oval – Australia won by 148 runs

Test series

1st Test

8–11 December 1995
Scorecard

Sri Lanka	v	Australia
251 (89.4 overs) Romesh Kaluwitharana 50 (74) Glenn McGrath 4/81 (24 overs)		617/5d (174 overs) Michael Slater 219 (321) Chaminda Vaas 2/103 (31 overs)
330 (93.4 overs) Hashan Tillakaratne 119 (206) Glenn McGrath 3/86 (24 overs)

Australia won by an innings and 36 runs
WACA Ground, Perth
Umpires: Khizer Hayat and Peter Parker
Player of the match: Michael Slater

Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
Ricky Ponting and Stuart Law (Aus) both made their Test debuts.

2nd Test

26-30 December 1995
Scorecard

Australia	v	Sri Lanka
500/6 d (165 overs) Steve Waugh 131 (252) Pramodya Wickramasinghe 2/77 (30.2 overs)		233 (88.4 overs) Arjuna Ranatunga 51 (105) Glenn McGrath 5/40 (23.4 overs)
41/0 (7.4 overs) Mark Taylor 25 (23)		307 (116.5 overs) (f/o) Asanka Gurusinha 143 (274) Shane Warne 4/71 (37 overs)

Australia won by 10 wickets
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne
Umpires: Steve Dunne and Darrell Hair
Player of the match: Glenn McGrath

Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
Jayantha Silva (SL) made his Test debut.

External sources

ESPN cricinfo

References

Playfair Cricket Annual (annual)
Wisden Cricketers Almanack (annual)

↑ Australia v Sri Lanka Australia v Sri Lanka - 26-30 December 1995, The Electronic Telegraph, ESPNcricinfo

List of Warne–Muralidaran Trophy series

Non-Warne–Muralidaran Trophy Australia v Sri Lanka Test series
1982–83 1987–88 1989–90 1992 1995–96 1999 2003–04 2004

International cricket tours of Australia

Test and LOI tours
Afghanistan	2020–21
Bangladesh	2003 2008
England	1876–77 1878–79 1881–82 1882–83 1884–85 1886–87 1887–88 1891–92 1894–95 1897–98 1901–02 1903–04 1907–08 1911–12 1920–21 1924–25 1928–29 1932–33 1936–37 1946–47 1950–51 1954–55 1958–59 1962–63 1965–66 1970–71 1974–75 1977 1978–79 1979–80 1982–83 1986–87 1987–88 1990–91 1994–95 1998–99 2002–03 2006–07 2010–11 2013–14 2017–18 2021–22 2022–23
India	1947–48 1967–68 1977–78 1980–81 1985–86 1991–92 1999–2000 2003–04 2007–08 2011–12 2014–15 2015–16 2018–19 2020–21
New Zealand	1973–74 1980–81 1982–83 1985–86 1987–88 1989–90 1990–91 1993–94 1997–98 2001–02 2004–05 2008–09 2011–12 2015–16 2016–17 2019–20 2020–21
Pakistan	1964–65 1972–73 1976–77 1978–79 1981–82 1983–84 1988–89 1989–90 1991–92 1992–93 1995–96 1996–97 1999–2000 2002 2004–05 2009–10 2016–17 2019–20
South Africa	1910–11 1931–32 1952–53 1963–64 1971–72 (cancelled) 1993–94 1997–98 2000 2001–02 2005–06 2008–09 2012–13 2014–15 2016–17 2018–19 2021–22 2022–23
Sri Lanka	1982–83 1987–88 1989–90 1995–96 1998–99 2002–03 2004 2007–08 2010–11 2012–13 2016–17 2018–19 2019–20
West Indies	1930–31 1951–52 1960–61 1968–69 1975–76 1979–80 1981–82 1984–85 1986–87 1988–89 1991–92 1992–93 1995–96 1996–97 2000–01 2004–05 2005–06 2009–10 2012–13 2015–16 2020–21 2022–23
Zimbabwe	1994–95 2000–01 2003–04 2021–22

Tournaments hosted
World Cup	1985 1992 2015
World Twenty20	2020
Tri-series	1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2011–12 2014–15 2017–18

Other tours
Afghanistan	2014–15
Australian Forces	1919–20 1945–46
English	1861–62 1863–64 1873–74 1902–03 1922–23 1929–30 1935–36 1979–80
England Lions	2012–13
Fijian	1907–08 1959–60
Ireland	2014–15
Multi-national	1971–72 2005–06
New Zealand	1898–99 1913–14 1925–26 1927–28 1937–38 1953–54 1961–62 1967–68 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1974–75
PNG	2014–15
Scotland	2014–15
UAE	2014–15
West Indies (WSC)	1977–78

Sri Lankan international Test cricket tours abroad
History of cricket in Sri Lanka
Australia	1987–88 1989–90 1995–96 2004 2007–08 2012–13 2018–19
Bangladesh	2005–06 2008–09 2013–14 2019–20
England	1984 1988 1991 1998 2002 2006 2011 2014 2016
India	1982–83 1986–87 1990–91 1993–94 1997–98 2005–06 2009–10 2015–16 2017–18
New Zealand	1982–83 1990–91 1994–95 1996–97 2004–05 2006–07 2014–15 2018–19
Pakistan	1981–82 1985–86 1991–92 1995–96 1998–99 1999–00 2001–02 2004–05 2008–09 2011–12 2013-14 2017–18
South Africa	1997–98 2000–01 2002–03 2011–12 2016–17 2018–19
West Indies	1995–96 1996–97 2003 2007–08 2018
Zimbabwe	1994–95 1999–00 2004 2016–17
International Test cricket tours of Sri Lanka International one day cricket against Sri Lanka Other tours of Sri Lanka

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