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Statistical highlights: Australia vs Sri Lanka, Sydney ODI February 08, 2008 Statistical highlights of the cricket tri-series match between Australia and Sri Lanka [Images] at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday: # Australia's 128-run win is their second biggest over Sri Lanka at SCG - in their previous encounter at this venue, they had won by 167 runs on 12.2.2006. # Australia's aforesaid triumph is their fifth successive against Sri Lanka since February 2006. # Australia have won 44 out of 65 played against Sri Lanka (Lost 19 and No Result 2) # Of the last six played by Sri Lanka, they have lost four (three to England [Images]) and won one while the remaining one could not produce a result. # Sri Lanka's 125 is their second lowest score against Australia, next only to their 91 at Adelaide on 28.1.1985. # Nathan Bracken [Images] (5/47) produced his career-best bowling figures, eclipsing his only previous five-wicket haul - five for 67 against South Africa at Johannesburg on 12.3.2006. # Bracken became the first Australian to capture five wickets in an innings against Sri Lanka at SCG, eclipsing his own record of four for 30 on 12.2.2006. # Bracken is the eighth Australian to bag five wickets in an innings at SCG. Glen McGrath [Images] is the only one to have bagged five wickets in an innings at this venue twice. # Bracken got his third Man of the Match award - his second against Sri Lanka. # Adam Gilchrist's [Images] 61 off 81 balls is his 54th fifty - his third against Sri Lanka. # In his last four innings against Sri Lanka, Gilchrist has registered two centuries (122 at Brisbane on February 14, 2006 and 149 at Bridgetown on April 28,2007) and one fifty. # In 27 matches against Sri Lanka, Gilchrist has made 1,304 runs at an average of 48.29. # Of his 15 centuries in ODIs, Gilchrist has recorded five against Sri Lanka - the most by him against one opponent, also an Australian record against Sri Lanka. Only Saeed Anwar (Pakistan) and Sachin Tendulkar [Images] (India) with seven centuries each, have recorded more hundreds against Sri Lanka than Gilchrist. # With two catches in Australia's innings, Mahela Jayawardene [Images] (135 in 263 matches) has overtaken New Zealand's [Images] Stephen Fleming's [Images] tally of 133 in 280 matches, moving to the second place behind Mohammad Azharuddin - 156 in 334 matches. # Chaminda Vaas [Images] (51 at 35.47 apiece in 42 matches) became the first Sri Lankan bowler to bag 50 wickets in Australia. # Muttiah Muralitharan, in his last four matches against Australia, has claimed just a single wicket as under: # Overall, Muralitharan has failed to take a single wicket against Australia in nine ODIs. # Michael Clarke [Images] recorded his 27th fifty - his fourth against Sri Lanka. # Clarke's 77 not out off 86 balls is his second best against Sri Lanka, next only to his 80 off 83 balls in Adelaide on 10.2.2006. # Clarke's aforesaid innings is his second best at SCG, next only to his 103 not out against Pakistan on 23.1.2005. # Ishara Amerasinghe (2/66) has registered his best figures, eclipsing his one for 30 against India in Brisbane on | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||