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Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2003–04

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ4824986 ↗
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The Australian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 17 February to 28 March 2004 to play three Tests and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) matches. Australia won the 3-match Test series 3-0 and 5-match ODI series 3-2.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Australian, cricket and team providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4824986. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2003–04” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.