Sri Lankan cricket team in Australia in 2007–08

The Sri Lanka cricket team toured Australia for four tour matches, two Test matches and the 2007–08 Commonwealth Bank Series from 27 October 2007 to 7 March 2008.^[1]

Sri Lanka in Australia in 2007-08
	Australia	Sri Lanka
Dates	8 November – 20 November 2007
Captains	Ricky Ponting	Mahela Jayawardene
Test series
Result	Australia won the 2-match series 2–0
Most runs	Phil Jaques (319)	Kumar Sangakkara (249)
Most wickets	Brett Lee (16)	Muttiah Muralitharan (4)
Player of the series	Brett Lee

Squad lists

Test squads
Australia [2][3]	Sri Lanka [4]
Ricky Ponting (c)	Mahela Jayawardene (c)
Adam Gilchrist (wk)	Kumar Sangakkara (wk)
Stuart Clark	Marvan Atapattu
Michael Clarke	Malinga Bandara
Matthew Hayden	Sujeewa de Silva
Ben Hilfenhaus (added)	Dilhara Fernando
Brad Hogg	Sanath Jayasuriya
Michael Hussey	Prasanna Jayawardene (wk)
Phil Jaques	Farveez Maharoof
Mitchell Johnson	Lasith Malinga
Brett Lee	Jehan Mubarak
Stuart MacGill	Muttiah Muralitharan
Andrew Symonds	Thilan Samaraweera
Shaun Tait (withdrawn)	Chamara Silva
	Upul Tharanga
	Chaminda Vaas
	Michael Vandort
	Chanaka Welegedara

• Ben Hilfenhaus was added after Tait was withdrawn with an elbow injury.
• Sujeewa de Silva was added as cover for Welegedara.

Test series

1st Test

8–12 November 00:00 UTC

Australia	v	Sri Lanka
4/551 dec. (151 overs) Michael Clarke 145* (249) Michael Hussey 133 (249) M Muralitharan 2/170 (50 overs)		211 (81.5 overs) Marvan Atapattu 51 (183) Chamara Silva 40 (45) Brett Lee 4/26 (17.5 overs)
		300 (99.2 overs) Michael Vandort 82 (170) Mahela Jayawardene 49 (115) Brett Lee 4/86 (27 overs)

Australia won by an innings and 40 runs Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane Umpires: Tony Hill (NZ) and Rudi Koertzen (SA) Player of the match: Brett Lee (Aus)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field first
• Mitchell Johnson (cricketer) (Aus) made his Test debut.

2nd Test

16–20 November 23:30 UTC Scorecard

Australia	v	Sri Lanka
5/542 dec. (139 overs) Phil Jaques 150 (237) Michael Hussey 132 (220) Dilhara Fernando 2/134 (26 overs)		246 (81.2 overs) Mahela Jayawardene 104 (194) Kumar Sangakkara 57 (76) Brett Lee 4/82 (23.2 overs)
2/210 dec. (46 overs) Phil Jaques 68 (95) Ricky Ponting 53* (102) Lasith Malinga 1/61 (12 overs)		410 (104.3 overs) Kumar Sangakkara 192 (282) Marvan Atapattu 80 (164) Brett Lee 4/87 (26.3 overs)

Australia won by 96 runs Bellerive Oval, Hobart Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pak) and Rudi Koertzen (SA) Player of the match: Brett Lee (Aus)

Commonwealth Bank Series

Main article: 2007–08 Commonwealth Bank Series

Tour Matches

Cricket Australia Chairman's XI

27–29 October (scorecard)

Sri Lanka	v	CA Chairman's XI
368/6 dec. (96.2 overs) ST Jayasuriya 154 (153) AK Heal 3/50 (19 overs)		409 (122.2 overs) TC Plant 124 (322) M Muralitharan 4/122 (44 overs)
125/3 (36 overs) DPMD Jayawardene 52 (73) ML Lewis 2/17 (7 overs)

Match drawn Adelaide Oval, Adelaide Umpires: Andy Collins (Aus) and Andrew Willoughby (Aus)

Queensland

2–4 November (scorecard)

Sri Lanka	v	Queensland
210/9 dec. (63.2 overs) HAPW Jayawardene 58 (130) AA Noffke 5/36 (14 overs)		295 (79.2 overs) AJ Bichel 125 (168) MF Maharoof 3/72 (20 overs)
226 (73.5 overs) WPUJC Vaas 84 (76) AA Noffke 3/21 (13 overs)		142/6 (37.1 overs) CT Perren 62* (74) MF Maharoof 3/33 (9 overs)

Queensland won by 4 wickets Allan Border Field, Brisbane Umpires: Andrew Curran (Aus) and Norm McNamara (Aus) Player of the match: AA Noffke (Qld)

Prime Minister's XI

30 January (scorecard)

Prime Minister's XI 152 (38 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 156/6 (31.5 overs)
AA Noffke 30 (54) SL Malinga 3/33 (9 overs)		TM Dilshan 75* (83) CL White 2/24 (6 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 4 wickets Manuka Oval, Canberra Umpires: Tim Laycock (Aus) and Yohan Ramasundra (Aus) Player of the match: SL Malinga (SL)

Tasmania

2 February Scorecard

Sri Lanka 183/9 (47.4 overs)	v	Tasmania 184/3 (36.1 overs)
DPMD Jayawardene 51 (59) BG Drew 5/36 (10 overs)		TD Paine 54 (76) KMDN Kulasekara 2/27 (6 overs)

Tasmania won by 7 wickets Bellerive Oval, Hobart Umpires: Brian Muir (Aus) and Greg Luck (Aus)

See also

• Australian cricket team in 2007–08