The

Sri Lanka cricket team The Sri Lanka men's national cricket team, (; ) nicknamed The Lions, represents Sri Lanka in men's international cricket. It is a full Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One-Day International (ODI) and T20 Internat ...

toured Australia in February 2017 to play three

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(T20Is) matches.

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confirmed the venues in August 2016 with the tour starting in

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, before heading to the first-ever international cricket match to be held at

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with the final T20 to be held at

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. With both Steve Smith and

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unavailable due to the scheduling of the series against India,

Aaron Finch Aaron James Finch (born 17 November 1986) is an Australian cricket commentator and former international cricketer who served as the captain of the Australian cricket team in One Day International, ODI and Twenty20 International, T20I cricket. Fi ...

was named as Australia's captain for the series. Sri Lanka's T20I captain

Angelo Mathews Angelo Davis Mathews (; ; born 2 June 1987) is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer and a former captain of the national cricket team in all formats. Mathews plays all formats for Sri Lanka. Mathews was a member of the team that won the 2014 I ...

was unavailable for the tour, after suffering a hamstring injury during the second T20I against South Africa in January 2017. Ahead of the T20I series, there was a twenty-over tour match between

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and Sri Lanka.

Adam Voges Adam Charles Voges (, born 4 October 1979) is an Australian cricket coach and former cricketer who played for the Australian national team at Test, One Day International (ODI), and Twenty20 International (T20I) level, and also captained Weste ...

captained the Prime Minister's XI side in his last international match before he retired. In the T20I series, Sri Lanka won the three-match T20I series 2–1.

Squads

Australia's

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was injured prior to the series and was replaced by

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Tour match

20-over match: Prime Minister's XI v Sri Lanka

T20I series

1st T20I

2nd T20I

3rd T20I

References

External links

Series home at ESPN Cricinfo
2017 in Australian cricket 2017 in Sri Lankan cricket International cricket competitions in 2016–17 Sri Lankan cricket tours of Australia Long stubs with short prose {{Australia-cricket-tour-stub