04/08Result
2nd Test, Australia tour of Sri Lanka at Galle, Aug 4-6 2016
Sri Lanka won by 229 runs
Player of the Match
Dilruwan PereraSri Lanka
04/08Result
2nd Test, Australia tour of Sri Lanka at Galle, Aug 4-6 2016
Sri Lanka won by 229 runs
Player of the Match
Dilruwan PereraSri Lanka

4.50pm Australia will have six uncomfortable overs to face. They'll need.....wait on....Four-hundred-and-thirteen to level the series. No prizes for guessing what Sri Lanka's mode of attack is going to be

Tony: "Although this comment is out of context, being an RCB fan, I can't help but think if Starc was available for the IPL, RCB would've surely won the IPL. " Oh dear, we've all moved on from that. There has been a full tour of Zimbabwe, and we're halfway through a West Indies series. Wake up

59.3
W
Starc to Fernando, OUT, edged and taken, credit for that should go to Voges, who took an excellent catch diving low to his left at slip. Those are the best figures by an Australia bowler in Sri Lanka. This was angled in full from wide of the crease, Vishwa doesn't know any other way to negotiate that and hangs his bat out as the edge flies low to the cordon. Voges is tired but extremely agile as he anticipates quickly to complete an excellent catch. Starc leads the team off the field, this has been a lion-hearted effort

MVT Fernando c Voges b Starc 0 (1m 1b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00

59.2
W
Starc to MDK Perera, OUT, there's the 10-for, and he's got it with a ripper of a yorker that tails back, Dilruwan is conscious of the damage it can do to his toe. Mind you it was in the mid-140s, and so he takes his feet off the ground, loses balance and by the time the bat came down, the stumps were clattered.

MDK Perera b Starc 64 (120m 89b 7x4 2x6) SR: 71.91

59.1
4
Starc to MDK Perera, FOUR, throws his bat at that full and wide delivery outside off, gets a thick edge that flies between second slip and gully. No third man, and all Mitch Starc can do is have is a laugh at the situation

END OF OVER:
59 | 8 Runs 1 Wkt | SL: 233/8

  • Dilruwan Perera60 (87b)
  • Jon Holland10-1-69-1
  • Mitchell Starc12-1-46-4

A dark black cloud looms in the horizon. Wind has picked up and the ground staff have brought the covers in. The Australians are still in the middle. Doesn't look too threatening though. It should blow over

Shamlan Malik: "Mr. Kishore, but same time yesterday, Warner started to become aggressive eventhough he was tested for light by the spinners, if he settles he can take it all day since there are three days remaining." The scenario is different, isn't it? Surely he won't approach a 400-plus chase the same way? Covers off, by the way.

58.6
W
Holland to Herath, OUT, there's the wicket! Herath, in his quest to play one cute reverse sweep too many, drags it onto the stumps off the under-edge. He tried to play it from outside leg, and was a sitting duck for a dismissal with that line of attack. Productive innings, though. He's managed to add more miles to Australia's weary legs

HMRKB Herath b Holland 26 (81m 55b 1x4 0x6) SR: 47.27

58.5
1
Holland to MDK Perera, 1 run, fetches the full toss from outside off and swings it down towards deep midwicket
58.4
0
Holland to MDK Perera, no run, swing and a miss, he floated it wide this time
58.3
0
Holland to MDK Perera, no run, steps out and dabs it back to the bowler
58.2
6
Holland to MDK Perera, SIX, slog swept into the grass banks. Wow, he's turning it on here. Across the line but it doesn't matter if you can hit the ball that sweetly. Sailed into the stands

Australia tour of Sri Lanka 2016 News

Australia Galled

501

Deliveries faced by Australia batsmen in this match - their fifth lowest in a loss in Tests since 1900.

Perera's all-round effort

4

No. of Sri Lanka players to make a fifty-plus score and take a five-for in a Test including Dilruwan Perera. Previous instance also came in Galle, Malinga v India, in 2010.

Double failure

1

No. of times Australia have lost half their side before scoring 100 runs in both innings of a Test since 2000. They were 92 for 5 and 82 for 5 at Trent Bridge in 2015.

Fastest Sri Lankan

11

No. of Tests taken by Dilruwan Perera to take 50 Test wickets; He is the fastest Sri Lanka bowler to do so. Ajantha Mendis, the fastest before him, took 12.

Carnage at Galle

21

Wickets that fell on the second day's play in Galle - the second highest in a day's play of Tests in Asia. Most wickets - 22 on day 3, SL v England, SSC, 2000-01

Starc's best

8/209

Mitchell Starc's best figures in a match in Tests before this, which had come against South Africa in Perth in 2012-13.

Carnage at Galle

11

Wickets lost in the morning session for just 83 runs scored. There are only four other instances of 11 or more wickets falling in a session in Tests since 2010.

a rare hat-trick

1892

Previous and only other instance of a left-arm orthodox bowler taking a hat-trick in Tests before Rangana Herath, by Johnny Briggs against Australia in Sydney.

Only the second

1

No. of SL bowlers to take hat-trick in Tests before Rangana Herath. Nuwan Zoysa had taken a hat-trick off the first three balls he bowled in Tests, against ZIM in 1999-00

AUS No. 3 and No. 4 in Asia

15

No. of consecutive inns in Asia when Australia's No. 3 and No. 4 haven't contributed 100 runs to teams score. In 10 of those they haven't managed 50 runs.