29/06Result
1st Test, Australia tour of Sri Lanka at Galle, Jun 29-Jul 1 2022
Australia won by 10 wkts
Player of the Match
Cameron Green
Cameron GreenAustralia
29/06Result
1st Test, Australia tour of Sri Lanka at Galle, Jun 29-Jul 1 2022
Australia won by 10 wkts
Player of the Match
Cameron Green
Cameron GreenAustralia

12pm Well what a procession that was! And Australia need just 5 runs to take a 1-0 lead in this two-Test series. Sri Lanka realised that a positive approach was the best one on this wicket, but the Aussie spinners were far more adept at utilising the pitch than their Lankan counterparts and, in the end, that proved extremely telling. Not to mention, the Sri Lankan batters' almost suicidal use of the sweep and reverse. Nathan Lyon, Travis Head and Mitchell Swepson accounted for all 10 wickets, with the former two picking up 4 apiece. Head's inspired turn (pun very much intended) was the surprise package, as he accounted for the wickets of Dinesh Chandimal and Dhananjaya de Silva in the span of a single over - his first in Test cricket - to really handicap the Lankan innings. Then he cleaned up the tail. What that meant though was Lyon unfortunately fell one short of a 10-for, though I don't think he'll mind too much.

22.5
W
Head to Embuldeniya, OUT, Is that the innings wrapped up?! This is tossed up from Head on middle and leg, and it beats the bat as the batter looks to work this onside. He's struck on the front pad and given not out, Australia review. This could be going down leg, but has it straightened enough? Yes, yes it has! Three reds as this is shown to hit leg. And Sri Lanka are all out for 113!

L Embuldeniya lbw b Head 0 (8m 6b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00

22.4
0
Head to Embuldeniya, no run,
22.3
1
Head to AM Fernando, 1 run, Again leans back and smears this fullish delivery to long on
22.2
4
Head to AM Fernando, FOUR, Walloped straight down the ground! And they avoid an innings defeat. This won't be found in any manual, as he just leans back and flat bats this past the bowler.

Sri Lanka still 1 away from avoiding an innings defeat.

22.1
W
Head to Vandersay, OUT, And Head has his third! Again with a ripper through bat and pad, as Vandersay goes for the forward defence but ends up with his stumps disturbed. This is a beaut of a ball, just clipping the top of leg.

JDF Vandersay b Head 8 (11m 8b 1x4 0x6) SR: 100.00

Harry: "@madushka look I'm English but credit where it's due son. yeah it's not great from Sri Lanka. But this pitch is a nightmare. Why produce this? The Aussies executed the perfect game plan for these atrocious conditions" Yes, it's taking turn, but I wouldn't call it a nightmare by any means. As the Aussie batters showed, if the bowlers don't utilise the conditions well then there's runs to be had.

END OF OVER:
22 | 1 Run 1 Wkt | SL: 108/8

  • Lasith Embuldeniya0 (4b)
  • Jeffrey Vandersay8 (7b)
  • Nathan Lyon11-1-31-4
  • Travis Head2-0-5-2
21.6
0
Lyon to Embuldeniya, no run, good length on the stumps, defended
21.5
0
Lyon to Embuldeniya, no run, tossed up on off, spins past the outside edge on the forward defence
21.4
0
Lyon to Embuldeniya, no run, good length on off, comes forward and defends
21.3
0
Lyon to Embuldeniya, no run, Tossed up on off, spinning away, and beats the outside edge. Perfectly bowled.
21.2
W
Lyon to Dickwella, OUT, and Dickwella goes! No repeat of his first innings heroics here, as he goes for the reverse sweep and gets a low top edge towards Marnus at cover, who dives full length to his left to hold on to good low take.

N Dickwella c Labuschagne b Lyon 3 (18m 7b 0x4 0x6) SR: 42.85

21.1
1
Lyon to Vandersay, 1 run, swept from outside off and loops off the top edge to the vacant short fine leg region

Joydeepsinghgil: "Madushka Sri Lanka almostly have avoided inning defeat that's something for them for sure and for their fans either" Not sure they're going to see it that way, Joy. This has been pretty poor from them.

END OF OVER:
21 | 6 Runs | SL: 107/7

  • Niroshan Dickwella3 (6b)
  • Jeffrey Vandersay7 (6b)
  • Travis Head2-0-5-2
  • Nathan Lyon10-1-30-3
20.6
0
Head to Dickwella, no run, attempted reverse sweep, and there's an appeal as this strikes the front pad. But it looks to have caught a little bottom edge
20.5
3
Head to Vandersay, 3 runs, crunched to the left of extra cover, but this just holds up before the boundary as they run three

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