26/07Result
1st Test, Australia tour of Sri Lanka at Kandy, Jul 26-30 2016
Sri Lanka won by 106 runs
Player of the Match
Kusal Mendis
Kusal MendisSri Lanka
26/07Result
1st Test, Australia tour of Sri Lanka at Kandy, Jul 26-30 2016
Sri Lanka won by 106 runs
Player of the Match
Kusal Mendis
Kusal MendisSri Lanka

2.08pm Australia crumble from 66 for 2 to 208. Some injudicious strokes but there is plenty in this surface to trouble the batsmen. This lead could be quite big, an 86-run lead is what Australia have. Sri Lanka will need to bat and bat really well to turn this match around.

79.2
W
Sandakan to Lyon, OUT, and given. Lyon has a review so why not use it? Tossed up from Sandakan on middle, Lyon gets down to sweep but just plain misses this. Struck him on off, I'd say. Was the wrong un so it pitched and went away, but so full it was that it didn't travel much. Almost a full toss in normal circumstances. No bat. All reds and Lyon has to go. That signals the end of Australia's innings.

NM Lyon lbw b Sandakan 17 (36m 25b 2x4 0x6) SR: 68.00

Australia tour of Sri Lanka 2016 News

target the pads

15

LBW dismissals in this Test - the most in any Test in Sri Lanka. There are only four instances of more wickets falling to LBW decision in any Test.

Bring on Herath

6

No. of five-fors in the fourth innings of Tests by Rangana Herath. Only Muttiah Muralitharan and Shane Warne - 7 each - have taken more.

Pedestrian in 4th

17.00

Adam Voges' batting average in the fourth innings of Tests (4 inns) as opposed to his average of 103.46 in the other three innings of Tests.

Worst in a long time

1994

Last time an Australia opener made fewer runs from two innings in a Test than David Warner in this match. Mark Taylor had got a pair v Pak in Karachi

Lyon's feat

3

No. of off spinners from non-Asian teams to take 200 or more Test wickets, including Nathan Lyon. Lance Gibbs (309) and Graeme Swann (255) are the others.

Mendis emulates Sanga

1

No. of SL batsman before Kusal Mendis to make 150-plus in the second innings of Tests against Australia. Kumar Sangakkara had made 192 in Hobart in 2007.

Youngest

0

No. of SL batsmen who scored a Test century at a younger age than Kusal Mendis (21y 177d) against Aus. Prev youngest: Kaluwitharana (22y 267d).