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  2. The Sri Lanka cricket team has reached the World Cup final three times. Winning in 1996 under the leadership of Arjuna Ranatunga and finishing as runners-up in the 2007 & 2011 World Cups. Sri Lanka has also reached the Semi Final at the 2003 World Cup and the Quarter Final at the 2015 World Cup.

  3. Despite a revised target, due to a further rain break, calculated using the Duckworth–Lewis method, Sri Lanka scored 215–8 from their allotted overs. With a 53-run victory, Australia won their third consecutive World Cup. [32]

    Year
    Winner
    Winner's Score
    Winning Margin
    241/4 (43 overs)
    241 all out (50 overs)
    186/3 (33.1 overs)
    277/4 (48.2 overs)
  4. Sri Lanka won the toss in the final and sent Australia in to bat despite the team batting first having won all five previous World Cup finals. Mark Taylor top scored with 74 in Australia's total of 241/7.

  5. Mar 27, 2021 · 1996 remains the only time Sri Lanka have won the 50-over World Cup. By Sam Sheringham and Matt Davies. BBC World Service. On the eve of the 1996 final in Lahore, the players of Sri Lanka and...

  6. Mark Taylor top scored with 74 in Australia’s total of 241/7. Sri Lanka won the match in the 47th over with Aravinda de Silva following his 3 for 42 with an unbeaten 107 to win the Player of the Match award. It was the first time a tournament host or co-host had won the cricket World Cup.

  7. Watch as Sri Lanka take on Australia in the final of the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 1996.Subscribe to our YouTube channel 👉 @ICC Follow us for more 👇 Web...

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  8. Mar 21, 2020 · Sri Lanka not only orbited into a new planet by creating history in winning cricket’s biggest pot of gold, the cricket world cup in 1995-96, but as a hitherto little known entity in the ICC fold doing it in style by bringing down the very might of the world Australia, who was the No.1 cricketing country in the world was a phenomenal achievement.