Statistical highlights of the cricket tri-series match between Australia and Sri Lanka 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) 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 (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 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 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 (India) with seven centuries each, have recorded more hundreds against Sri Lanka than Gilchrist.
# With two catches in Australia's innings, Mahela Jayawardene (135 in 263 matches) has overtaken New Zealand's Stephen Fleming's tally of 133 in 280 matches, moving to the second place behind Mohammad Azharuddin - 156 in 334 matches.
# Chaminda Vaas (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:
10-0-99-0 Sydney 12.2.2006
10-1-50-1 Brisbane 14.2.2006
7-0-44-0 Bridgetown 28.4.2007
10-0-42-0 Sydney 8.2.2008
# Overall, Muralitharan has failed to take a single wicket against Australia in nine ODIs.
# Michael Clarke 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
February 5, 2008.
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