Sri Lankan national cricket team in Australia in the 2004 season
The Sri Lankan national cricket team tour to Australia in the 2004 season took place from July 1 to 13, 2004. The international cricket tour was part of the 2004 international cricket season and included two tests . Australia won the series 1–0.
prehistory
Australia previously played a tour in Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka as well . The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in the 2003/04 season in Sri Lanka . Actually, the tour should have taken place the year before, but scheduling difficulties around the Cricket World Cup 2003 caused the postponement to the otherwise unusual winter season for Australia. The Australian Prime Minister John Howard made several negative comments about the bowling techniques of the Sri Lankan Muttiah Muralitharan , who therefore decided against traveling to Australia.
Stages
Tour venues |
The following stages were designated as the venue for the tour and announced on July 19, 2003.
Stadion | city | capacity | Games |
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Bundaburg Rum Stadium | Cairns | 13,500 | |
Marrara oval | Darwin | 14,000 |
Squad lists
Sri Lanka named their squad on June 4, 2004. Australia named their squad on June 9, 2004.
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Tour matches
June 24-27 Scorecard |
Darwin | Northern Territory Chief Minister's XI 419 (105) & 145-9d (50) |
- |
![]() 378-7d (104) & 187-5 (59.5) |
Sri Lankans wins with 5 wickets |
Testing
First test in Darwin
July 1-3 scorecard |
Darwin |
![]() 207 (71.3) & 201 (63.1) |
- |
![]() 97 (41.5) & 162 (65.4) |
Australia wins with 149 runs |
Second test in Cairns
July 9-13 Scorecard |
Cairns |
![]() 517 (124.2) & 292-9d (66.4) |
- |
![]() 455 (144.4) & 183-8 (85) |
draw |
statistics
The following cricket statistics were obtained on this tour.
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Batting | ||||||||
player | team | Games | Innings | Runs | Average | HS | 100s | 50s |
Matthew Hayden |
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2 | 4th | 288 | 72.00 | 132 | 2 | 0 |
Justin Langer |
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2 | 4th | 210 | 52.50 | 162 | 1 | 0 |
Damien Martyn |
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2 | 4th | 203 | 50.75 | 97 | 0 | 2 |
Darren Lehmann |
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2 | 4th | 179 | 44.75 | 57 | 0 | 3 |
Marvan Atapattu |
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2 | 4th | 156 | 39.00 | 133 | 1 | 0 |
bowling | ||||||||
player | team | Games | Overs | Wickets | Average | BBI | 5W | 10W |
Upul Chandana |
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2 | 61.4 | 12 | 22.50 | 5/101 | 2 | 1 |
Glenn McGrath |
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2 | 81 | 10 | 17.10 | 5/37 | 1 | 0 |
Lasith Malinga |
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2 | 63.3 | 10 | 26.40 | 4/42 | 0 | 0 |
Shane Warne |
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2 | 100.5 | 10 | 28.00 | 4/70 | 0 | 0 |
Michael Kasprowicz |
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2 | 67.4 | 8th | 25.12 | 7/39 | 1 | 0 |
Player of the Series
The following players were honored as Player of the Series .
series | Player of the Series |
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test |
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Player of the Match
The following players were recognized as Player of the Match .
game | Player of the Match |
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1st test |
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2nd test |
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Darwin and Cairns to host Sri Lanka in 2004 Tests ( English ) Cricinfo. July 19, 2003. Retrieved December 29, 2016.
- ↑ Sri Lankan board will allow Murali to skip tour to Australia ( English ) Cricinfo. April 15, 2004. Retrieved December 29, 2016.
- ↑ Christian Ryan: PM throws spanner in works - again ( English ) Cricinfo. May 17, 2004. Retrieved December 29, 2016.
- ↑ Murali pulls out of Australian tour ( English ) Cricinfo. June 15, 2004. Retrieved December 29, 2016.
- ^ Murali named in party for Australian tour ( English ) Cricinfo. June 4, 2004. Retrieved December 29, 2016.
- ↑ MacGill on the outer again ( English ) Cricinfo. June 9, 2004. Retrieved December 29, 2016.
- ↑ Records / Sri Lanka in Australia Test Series, 2004 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
- ↑ Records / Sri Lanka in Australia Test Series, 2004 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 5, 2017.