19th Match, Group A (D/N)
Date: Saturday, March 05, 2011
Time: 09:00 GMT | 14:30 Local
Forecast: Scattered Thunderstorms
AUSTRALIA
V
SRI LANKA
D/N Match at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Sri Lanka SquadKC Sangakkara*†, DPMD Jayawardene, TM Dilshan, CRD Fernando, HMRKB Herath, CK Kapugedera, KMDN Kulasekara, SL Malinga, AD Mathews, BAW Mendis, M Muralitharan, NLTC Perera, TT Samaraweera, LPC Silva, WU Tharanga
Australia Squad
RT Ponting*, MJ Clarke, CJ Ferguson, BJ Haddin†, JW Hastings, DJ Hussey, MG Johnson, JJ Krejza, B Lee, TD Paine†, SPD Smith, SW Tait, SR Watson, CL White
Pitch and conditions
It pelted down on Friday evening in Colombo, and there's light rain forecast for Saturday as well. If the weather stays clear, the teams will likely have to deal with a sluggish pitch, the same surface that was used for the Kenya-Sri Lanka match.
Stats and Trivia
* Australia have lost only one of the seven completed World Cup matches against Sri Lanka - the 1996 final
* Ricky Ponting has the most number of World Cup catches (27), more than twice as many as any other current player. The next highest tally of a player in the tournament is Paul Collingwood (13)
* Lasith Malinga has an astonishing World Cup record: 9 matches, 24 wickets at 13.41
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