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Australians don't repeat mistakes

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REUTERS, Centurion
Australia's dissection of the Sri Lanka attack on Friday showed the world champions' capacity to learn from past mistakes.
The Australians stormed into the semifinals with a comfortable 96-run victory.
In September, Ricky Ponting's super-confident team came up against the same opponents in the semifinal of the Champions Trophy in Colombo and, on a bare pitch against a side packed full of spinners, they were utterly outplayed.
Australia's batsmen looked bereft of a plan, tried to hit their way out of trouble and perished.
Reflecting on that day ahead of Saturday's match, Ponting had said: "We were not totally prepared for what the conditions had in store for us.
"We got off to a good start but Aravinda (de Silva) came on, bowled really well and made it hard for us to score.
"We lost wickets, had new batsmen coming in against the sharply turning ball and it is important we don't do that again."
To that end, Ponting led a lengthy team meeting at Centurion on Wednesday before training and although he stressed it was up to individuals to come up with their own game-plan, it was clear the lessons had been learnt.
As in Colombo, Sri Lanka captain Sanath Jayasuriya introduced spin within the first 15 overs but this time openers Matthew Hayden and Adam Gilchrist were content to work the ball for ones and twos and wait for the bad ball.
The ball did not turn as much as it did in September but the more measured approach ensured the Sri Lanka spinners were never able to establish a stranglehold on Australia.
Only time will tell what harm Australia's performance has done for Sri Lanka's World Cup chances as, above all, it proved that the threat posed by their spinners was by no means insurmountable.
For Australia, it was a day when another piece of the plan to retain the trophy they won in England in 1999 fell into place.
Before the match, Ponting had said a major issue that needed to be addressed was the lack of a major score or partnerships between the side's top four batsmen.
The captain looked like a man on a mission on Friday as he moved to his 12th one-day international hundred from only 96 balls, the second fifty occupying just 30 deliveries.
After Matthew Hayden (22) and Adam Gilchrist added 75 for the first wicket, Ponting then shared a second wicket stand of 106 with Gilchrist. That partnership only ended when the latter was run out by a direct hit for 99, the first man to fall for that score in World Cup history.
If Sri Lanka were hoping Gilchrist's dismissal would offer some respite, they were wrong. Damien Martyn (52) joined Ponting to add a further 112 for the third
wicket and, although only 66 came from the final 10 overs, Australia still had a commanding score of 319 for five.
To complete the good news for Australia, the results of a scan on allrounder Andrew Symonds' injured groin revealed no major damage and he could come into contention for next Tuesday's Super Six match against New Zealand in Port Elizabeth.
Even without Shane Warne and Jason Gillespie, and before Sri Lanka had the chance to reply with batting of their own, Australia's claim on the World Cup looked even strong.