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Draw gives Aussies series
MORATUWA, Shri Lanka. Sept 13: Australia took their three match series against — Shri Lanka after negotiating their way to a safe draw in the final Test before a packed Tyronne Fernando S'adium here Sunday, reports AFP.
Oreg Matthews hit a patient 96 to take the limelight on the final day as Australia opted to continue their second Innings until the match was called off 20 minutes before the scheduled close when Matthews was finally dismissed.
Australia at this stage were 271 for eight— a stn»ng recovery from their four wickets down for nine runs at one stage on the fourth day.
Heavy rains Sunday, however. dampened hopes of a decision on the last day. which eventually vanished com pletcly after Australian skipper Altan Border decided to allow his overnight pair of Matthews and Ian Healy to continue past
His decision dismayed a 10.000-strong home crowd who had expected a challenging declaration at tho break. But with three hours of play already ruined by rain and with the series 1-0 in Australia's favour, the visitors were clearly not willing to take chances.
Rain robbed about nine hours from the match The second Teat was also drawn, after Australia ran the first.
Australia finished their ftve-week tour having maintained their record of not having tost a match to Shri Lanka tn seven Tests, but they could not prevent Shri Lanka from win ning the one-day scries 2-1.
Border, who carried away the-man-of-the-match award for face-saving scores of 106 and 78. later praised Shri Lanka for their performance which "caught all of us by surprise "
"It was an Interesting series. 1 thought the Shr! Lankans played superbly well ... I think they are going to be a force to be reckoned with in the Test scene," said the veteran Border after his 70th Test as captain.
Ranatunga blamed poor batting and bad weather for his team's failure to square the scries, but was happy I hat he led side to success In the one-day internationals.
Matthew^ who was In the
side as a specialist off-spinner, put to shame Australia's top order batting line-up as he mixed caution with aggression on his way to his 11 th Test half-century and his fifth successive 50 on this tour
The left-handed Matthews, who survived two chances on 53 and 95 respectively hit a six off part-time bowler Roshan Mahanama and five boundaries in his marathon 227 ball knock. Wicketkeeper Healy made 49 with four boundaries.
From an overnight 147 for six. Matthews and Healy added I 14 more runs to their seventh wicket partnership before Sanath Jayasuriya took a tumbling catch at midwickct to dismiss Healy off fast bowler DuUp Llyanage
Tnelr 129-run partnership was the highest for the sev enth wicket against Shri Lanka. erasing the cxtsllng records of 104 set by Pakistanis Haroon Rashid and Tahir Naqqash at Karachi tn 1982.
Shri Lanka’s frustration at not betng able to wrap up Australia’s innings after making early inroads was reflected in skipper Arjuna Ranatunga tiytng nine bowlers Including hlmpelf to break this stand.
Fast bowler Dulip Llyanage. playing In only hts second Test, finished with a career-best four for 56.