[4] The trophy features casts of the two bowlers' right hands and match-used cricket balls bowled by them during their careers.

[9] Ricky Ponting stated that he was determined to deny Murali from getting the nine wickets required to surpass Warne as the highest wicket-taker in Test cricket while in Australia.

[11] In the second Test, Kumar Sangakkara was given out when the ball actually hit his shoulder on 192 by umpire Rudi Koertzen.

During the series Marvan Atapattu, former Sri Lankan cricket captain criticised the selecting board of Sri Lanka Cricket saying the selectors were a group of "Muppets headed by a joker" referring to the chairman of selectors, Ashantha de Mel.

Sri Lanka had a poor run leading up to this series, where they lost across all forms in England.

The third test was at SSC, Dinesh Chandimal and Dhananjaya de Silva scored centuries in the first innings.

In the third and crucial innings, Kaushal Silva scored a century setting a target of over 300 for the Aussies.

Herath took 13 wickets in the match and Sri Lanka managed to win by 163 runs, whitewashing Australia for the first time in their history.