Australia vs Sri Lanka at Melbourne, 94/95
Aus won by 10 wickets
Aus 1st Innings: 6d/500
SR Waugh 131*, DC Boon 110, RT Ponting 71, MJ Slater 62
SL 1st Innings: 233
A Ranatunga 51, RS Kaluwitharana 50, GD McGrath 5/40
SL 2nd Innings (Following On): 307
AP Gurusinha 143, SK Warne 4/71
Aus 2nd Innings: 0/41
Man of the Match: GD McGrath
Aus XI: Taylor*, Slater, Boon, Waugh, Waugh, Ponting, Healy+, Reiffel, Warne, McDermott, McGrath
SL XI: Mahanama, Hathurasigha, Gurusinha, De Silva, Ranatunga*, Tillakaratne, Kaluwitharana+, Vaas, Wickramasinghe, Muralitharan, Silva
May not have been the first game I ever saw, but the first I remember. I went to the first day and saw Boon get 93 not out. Waugh was 2 not out at the time and went on to make a ton. It was Ricky Ponting's second test, we barely even knew who he was, it was all about the superstar top 5 of Taylor, Slater, Boon and the Waugh twins.
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