2nd test: Australia on the verge of Sri -Lanka

Australia is located two curtains from the end of the second Sri Lanka presentation on the second test on Saturday, and the owners stagger on 211-8 on stumps on the third day in Galla. With Sri Lanka, leading only 54 run, Steve Smith will strive to extort the tail at the beginning of Sunday and fix 2-0. Angelo Matthew There was Linhpin Sri -Lanka’s feeds, holding things together when the gates fell on the other end. But just 15 minutes before the end of the game, he sweeping Nathan Lyon right to the square leg, where Bo Webster I realized a sharp chance.

The 37-year-old Warhorse dug deeply for the battle half of the century, but Sri Lanka needed a marathon, not his good 76.

Matthew is in the crosshair, with one fifty in his last eight supplies.

In anticipation of this test, the selectors made it clear that if he does not begin to produce large runs, his place in the next cycle of the World Cup was not recorded.

His partnership in the sixth calic Somewhere in the correction The cost of 70 jogging was a rescue circle for Sri Lalanca, preventing a feed explosion and providing an extended game on the fourth day.

Prabat Jayasuria He said that Sri -Lanka is “not from this.”

“The Mendis was still there, and he beats well – and if he can give us decent leadership, then we can put pressure on them,” he said.

“It will not be easy to van in the fourth feeds.”

‘Remove them’

There was an unusual moment in the afternoon, when the delivery from Lyon drifted around the leg.

He cut a helmet located behind the gate for a close field player, and called an automatic penalty for five spaces for Sri Lanka, a rare bonus in a match where it was difficult to pass.

With the picturesque fort, Galle, providing a natural rostrum, hundreds of Australian supporters of their own on historical ramparts in order to enjoy the team performance on their part.

Fans celebrated how, outside the spinner, Lyon became only the third Australian who claimed 550 test gates, joining an elevated company Shane Waorn (708) and Glenn McGrat (563).

Lyon was well supported Matthew KunemannSeparating the seven gates between them.

Previously, Alex Carey The chief artist turned with The Swashbuckling 156th the best knock in his career, strewn with 15 borders and two high sixes.

While Smith (131) also took another hundred – his second series – it was Carey, who simplified Vatin.

With Sri Lanka on the ropes and Australia, ready for knockout, the fourth day promises a high drama.

Kitineman said that Australia was still faced with a “not light” pursuit.

“Whatever they put, it will be difficult,” he said.

“It will turn a lot on the fourth day, and we are looking forward to knocking them down, gaining all the necessary runs – and complete the series.”

Visitors have already set the Waorn Mural trophy outside the reach of Sri Lanka, taking an unpleasant advantage with a score of 1: 0 with a crushing victory in the first test.

These are incoming and 242-played humiliation become the worst defeat of Sri Lanka in the history of tests.

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