Statistical highlights: Australia vs Sri Lanka, Melbourne ODI

Statistical highlights of the cricket tri-series match between Australia and Sri Lanka played at the MCG in Melbourne on Friday.

# Sri Lanka registered their 20th win in 68 games against Australia - lost 46, NR 2.

# Sri Lanka's win is their 8th in 40 ODIs against Australia in Australia (Lost 32).

# Under Jayawardene's captaincy, Sri Lanka recorded their first win against Australia in six matches.

# Overall, the win is Sri Lanka's 37th out of 64 games under Jayawardene's captaincy (Lost 23, NR 4). Overall, Jayawardene have won 40 ODIs out of 67.

# Against Australia, Sri Lanka have won 4 out of 11 contested at Melbourne.

# Sri Lanka (221) posted their highest total against Australia in the 2007-08 CB Series - their first total of 200-plus against Australia in the competition.

# Sanath Jayasuriya is without a fifty in 20 innings in ODIs - 305 runs in 20 innings at an average of 15.25.

# Jayasuriya's performance, however, is not his worst in ODIs. His worst performance was between December 26, 1989 and October 28, 1993, aggregating 356 runs at an average of 11.13, without a fifty, in 33 innings.

# Gilchrist is now the leading run-getter in Australia-Sri Lanka ODIs, eclipsing Aravinda de Silva's aggregate of 1451 at an average of 48.36 in 36 matches, including two centuries and 10 fifties.

# Gilchrist, with 313 runs at an average of 39.12, including one century and two fifties in 8 games, became the first Australian to aggregate 300 runs in the 2007-08 CB series.

# Since recording 172 runs by Adam Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden against Sri Lanka in the World Cup Final at Bridgetown on April 28, 2007, this is Australia's first century stand for the first wicket in 18 ODIs.

# Gilchrist has been involved in 28 century stands for the first wicket - 16 with Hayden; 8 with Mark Waugh, 3 with Simon Katich and 1 with James Hopes.

# Adam Gilchrist got his 27th Man of the Match award. His tally is the second best by an Australian, next only to Ricky Ponting (28).

# Muralitharan, with James Hopes' wicket, became the first Sri Lankan to claim 50 wickets against Australia.  The break-up of his 51 wickets against Australia is - 46 in 34 matches for Sri Lanka and 5 in three matches for ICC World XI.