Australia vs Sri Lanka Head to Head Record in World Cup | ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 Warm-up matches

Australia vs Sri Lanka Head to Head Record: The SportsRush present before you the Head to Head records for AUS and SL.

The seventh warm-up match for the imminent ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 will be played between Australia and Sri Lanka at Southampton tomorrow. While Australia are coming on the back of defeating hosts England by 12 runs, Sri Lanka underwent a massive 87-run loss against South Africa at Cardiff.

Among a major concern for Australia would be to finalize who out of Shaun Marsh or Usman Khawaja would feature in their starting XI in the league stage. On the other hand, Sri Lanka have aplenty to ponder about across departments.

Steve Smith’s strange dismissal after that brilliant century had everyone talking but it’s fair to say the Aussie star has bigger fish to fry at the #CWC19 pic.twitter.com/dPYAkDFGnh

— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) May 26, 2019

Australia vs Sri Lanka Head to Head Record in World Cup

Total number of matches played: 96

Matches won by Australia: 60

Matches won by Sri Lanka: 32

Matches played in Australia: 56 (AUS 39, SL 16)

Matched played in Sri Lanka: 30 (AUS 13, SL 14)

Matched played at neutral venues: 10 (AUS 8, SL 2)

Matches played in ICC World Cup: 9 (AUS 7, SL 1)

Most runs for Australia: 1,649 (Ricky Ponting)

Most runs for Sri Lanka: 1,675 (Kumar Sangakkara)

Most wickets for Australia: 38 (Brett Lee)

Most wickets for Sri Lanka: 48 (Muttiah Muralitharan)

Most catches for Australia: 35 (Adam Gilchrist)

Most catches for Sri Lanka: 30 (Kumar Sangakkara)

Recent match

The last ODI played between Australia and Sri Lanka had come way back in 2016. In what was the fifth and last ODI of Australia’s tour of Sri Lanka in 2016 at Kandy, Australia had defeated Sri Lanka by 5 wickets to register a 4-1 series victory.

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After Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal won the toss and chose to bat, the hosts ended up scoring a paltry 195/10 in 40.2 overs. Despite Sri Lanka’s top three getting starts, none of them could convert it into a substantial score. With bowling figures of 9-0-40-3, Mitchell Starc was the pick of the bowlers for the visitors. The left-arm pacer was well supported by Travis Head and Adam Zampa, who picked up a couple of wickets each.

It was David Warner’s seventh ODI century which saw aided Australia in sealing the chase in 43 overs. The southpaw ended up scoring 106 (126) with the help of nine fours.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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