Warne had 1 test wicket when AB threw him the ball and had gone for 0 for 107 in the first innings here. Looks like he had flipper on his mind when he was bowling those massive leggies. One looked like a definite flipper but was too full. What a champion he was. Great move by AB too.

I was actually looking for the catch by AB (to dismiss Aravinda I think) which Warnie has written about in the book.

I too got the feeling when Australian team lost against West Indies in 1992-93 at Adelaide by 1 run … Heart breaking defeat that was !!!!

Me too ... I was 14 years.

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This was the 1st for me as well.. And I was also 7 years old at that time. :D

pro trick : you can watch movies on flixzone. Been using them for watching lots of of movies these days.

@Winston Langston Yea, I have been using Flixzone for since november myself =)

Same here mate

I was also seven years old. But could not watch the match. We didnt have electricity those days.

Hm. There's a famous surname.

This is the only footage available of the game as well as the test series and odi series as a whole.

Very important mohideen. Mad man. Doller 350/-.

He was a very underrated player.

He got 5 50s in a row in this series. Missed out in the first innings of the first first test then 5 50s in a row. Junior got 4 ducks in the 2nd and 3rd tests. I think his nickname was briefly "Rings" after this? Like "Afghanistan" it didn't stick and he was eventually "Junior."

And probably Gura was right. The way Gura took apart spinners in WC, he could have wont it with three additional hits

Ranga Weerakkody: exactly! He hit two boundaries without breaking into a sweat after the 8th wicket fell. If they had allowed him to get after Warne, I believe he would have taken Sri Lanka home

@@AshokSridharan if ASANKA GURUSINHA played just like he did in Austral-Asia Cup 1994 match, this match would've been different.

@@AsadMalik-qi9gx: most likely yes, given that the game was decided by just 16 runs. Perhaps the team management ought to have given him the licence to attack when the wickets started falling. Then again, hindsight is a perfect science. Life isn’t

His batting average was 41 in tests which was a great average during that time..

@@MegaNarsinha absolutely. Probably a better batsman than a bowler in my opinion. His performance in the tied test match in India in 1986 was amazing.

I can only think the selectors viewed him as a jack of all trades type player in his latter years Such as not good enough for a middle order batsman, not good enough as a frontline spinner Steve Waugh for example didn't bowl as much eventually to concentrate on his batting around the time Matthews international career ended

@@redwhiteandblueblood it seemed like there was something about playing in the sub continent that brought out the best in him. This game, his MOTM performance in the tied test match in India in 1986 are 2 games that spring to mind.

There is no other footage of this game, the series or ODI series.

From a mate who got it from someone else - never been seen before on KZfaq, so I thought, why not upload! I think the Sri Lankan TV coverage back in the day wasn't too bad, not much worse than the BBC of the 80s, anyway!

@@saustfootball Yeah, I've heard a lot about this test, the greatest come from behind win in test history (Australia trailed by nearly 300 runs after the 1st innings). What's a joke is that Ch9 did broadcast Pakistan's tour of England a couple of months before this Australian tour of Sri Lanka, but couldn't be half-arsed with international tours outside of England (excluding the 1991 tour of West Indies, and 1994 tour of South Africa). And tv coverage of matches in Sri Lanka and Pakistan pre-1996 World Cup was very ordinary (coverage of matches in India was also ordinary until Sky Sports produced the 1993 English tour of India broadcast and from that point onwards the tv quality of matches in India starting picking up quite substantially), makes the BBC coverage of the '70s look like gold standard, and goes to show how far Kerry Packer was ahead of the game when Ch9 got tv rights to matches in Australia back in the late '70s. It's hard to believe before that, the BCCI used to have to pay the tv broadcaster to televise matches! That'd be unthinkable these days. However, watching highlights of the 1987 World Cup the other day and it was very grainy and amateur, looked like a kindergarten student's school project!

@@saustfootball Oh, regarding this '92 tour of Sri Lanka, the Aussies also played 3 ODIs. The last ODI was the first day/nighter ever held in Sri Lanka, and I read in a Wisden article that the Aussies wore a salmon-colored jersey, and were nicknamed the "Pink Panthers" for that match. Would be interested to see if anyone's got footage or photos from that match, as the salmon-colored jersey (the only time the Aussies have ever worn that color in ODIs) is a far cry from the traditional canary yellow that's always been synonymous with the Aussies since the early years of World Series cricket.

Great upload.can you upload the one-day series played under lights for the first time in srilanka

@@saustfootball do you have any chance of odi series between srl vs aus from 1992 & ROSHAN MAHANAMA's 119 odi innings vs zim from 1994.

if only ASANKA GURUSINHA played like he played in Austral-Asia Cup 1994 match vs New Zealand.

@@AsadMalik-qi9gx Yes, Gurusinghe had made some runs here in this game too, but had not batted with the ultimate target in mind, rather he had been too slow to get going and couldn't take any control over the situation amidst the collapse. Almost 2 years later in Sharjah, he made a monumental 116 against NZ during the Australasia cup, fighting almost single-handedly for Sri Lanka there ....

That’s right, Warne had been smashed around by India in his debut test match in the 1991/92 series. He took 1 wicket for over 100 runs and he was given a hard welcome to test cricket by Ravi Shastri, Tendulkar etc. Warne always said that this game was the start of his test career properly.