Sri Lanka v Australia: first males’s cricket Take a look at, day two – stay | Australia cricket workforce

107th over: Australia 438-3 (Khawaja 190, Inglis 21) Inglis dances down and clouts Jayasuriya for FOUR. Nice shot by the debutant! And one other streaky one by Khawaja as one other backside edged sweep shot misses the center, skims the stumps and eludes wicketkeeper. As a substitute it runs away wonderful for one more boundary, this time as leg byes. Khawaja reverse sweeps a single to shut out the over.

Bizarre scenario in Australian cricket immediately with Alyssa Healy and Josh Inglis – each specialist wicketkeepers – taking the sector as specialist batters. What does it imply?

106th over: Australia 428-3 (Khawaja 189, Inglis 16) Was that an opportunity? Khawaja reverse swept Vandersay and backside edged… however no, it’s one other nutmeg because the ball hits glove and bounces by wicketkeeper Mendes’s legs for one more 4, Khawaja’s 14th.

one hundred and fifth over: Australia 422-3 (Khawaja 184, Inglis 15) Inglis late cuts for FOUR! That was so late it nutmegged the second slipper. Good shot although. The rookie is rattling alongside at ODI tempo and that shot takes him to 14 from 17. Sri Lanka are crowding him and have a again pad fielder respiratory down his neck. Unperturbed, Ibnglis reverse sweeps a single. Khawaja drops and runs to retain strike.

104th over: Australia 416-3 (Khawaja 183, Inglis 10) Inglis races to double-figures with a swept full toss and a dancing drive to mid on. Khawaja will get the reverse sweep out once more however Vandersay shoots it by a tad faster and Usman can’t join.

103rd over: Australia 414-3 (Khawaja 182, Inglis 8) Inglis virtually chops on! That was good bowling by Jayasuriya. he rushed it onto the rookie and caught the underside edge and virtually hit off stumps. Inglis withdraws into his shell for the following two then steps again to late lower the fourth previous slip. He will get two and provides a 3rd with a paddle sweep to the final.

102nd over: Australia 407-3 (Khawaja 182, Inglis 5) Inglis provides a fifth run to his profession tally with just a little faucet to level. He’s a busy participant and an ardent stroke-maker. After arriving from Leeds UK as a 14-year-old, Inglis first caught the attention of selectors within the Sheffield Protect season of 2020-21 with 585 runs together with three first-class lots of for Western Australia. Impressing with the Perth Scorchers underneath the tutelage of Justin Langer, the 29-year-old has since performed 26 ODIs and 29 T20s within the inexperienced and gold. Now he’s obtained his likelihood within the massive leagues. What can he do with this huge platform laid for him?

one hundred and first over: Australia 407-3 (Khawaja 180, Inglis 4) After ready virtually 30 years to debut and ready all day yesterday and one other 90 minutes immediately to bat, Josh Inglis has hit his first ball in Take a look at cricket for a boundary. Khawaja’s single offers the debutant a have a look at Jayasuriya. He performs in a low crouch with comfortable arms and a tough jaw as his chewing gum cud will get an actual exercise. Nerves or nonchalance? We’ll quickly discover out.

WICKET! Smith lbw Vandersay 141 (Australia 401-3)

one hundredth over: Australia 399-2 (Khawaja 177, Smith 141) Weird scenes! Australia’s 400 has come up by way of an overthrow from wicketkeeper Mendes who noticed Khawaja ambling again on the non-strikers finish and had a shy solely to narrowly miss the timbers. Replays present Usman would’ve been gone if it’d been a direct hit. And now we’ve an enchantment by Jefrrey Vandersay towards Smith for lbw. Umpire says Nah however Sri Lanka assume Yeah and ship it upstairs. This has hit Smith’s again pad useless in entrance… and it’s OUT!

Josh Inglis flicks his first ball in Take a look at cricket by mid-on for FOUR!

Over on the MCG, Australia are properly positioned to finish a sequence sweep. They’ve England on the rack at 63-3 with England’s captain the most recent to fall to Kim Garth.

99th over: Australia 399-2 (Khawaja 177, Smith 141) Khawaja ambles one other single and Smith spanks two extra with a canopy drive that’s picked up cleanly simply contained in the rope by a tumbling Angelo Mathews. Three from the over. 69 runs from the primary hour. We’ll have some drinks.

98th over: Australia 395-2 (Khawaja 176, Smith 138) Mr Vandersay turns into the third Sri lankan bowler to notch a century, with Khawaja’s clipped single mentioning three figures from his 22-odd overs. Smith provides one other 4 with a late lower that cut up the sector and hits the rope excellent. Australia are effortlessly marching past 500 right here.

97th over: Australia 388-2 (Khawaja 174, Smith 133) Smith’s loped two by sq. leg brings up the 250-run partnership from 402 balls. Mighty effort by Australia’s senior males. However Smith edges the following ball and it skips simply previous second slip and runs away. Shut! Poor previous Jayasuriya has his head in his arms. He is aware of how shut that was. He additionally is aware of his workforce desperately want a wicket. As a substitute it runs away for one more two runs.

96th over: Australia 384-2 (Khawaja 174, Smith 129) Vandersay is probing an off stump line. The late blooming finger spinner is 5 days shy of his thirty fifth birthday but that is simply his second Take a look at. Smith skips down and clips two to wonderful leg then faucets one by covers to retain the strike.

ninety fifth over: Australia 380-2 (Khawaja 173, Smith 126) Virtuoso Khawaja! That was an excellent stroke for yet one more boundary. Jayasuriya tossed it up and Usman rocked again and punched it to the offside boundary with a scrumptious flick of the wrists. Holds the pose as he notches the best rating by an Australian opener in Sri Lanka. Now Smith indicators his intent, skipping down and clobbering Jayasuriya down the bottom…. and over the fence for SIX!

94th over: Australia 368-2 (Khawaja 169, Smith 120) That is the change Sri Lanka wanted: Jeffrey Vandersay has entered the assault. The 35-year-old bowled fantastically yesterday and took the scalp of Marnus Labuschagne for 20 with an attractive jagging supply that caught the sting and was pouched behind the stumps. He leaks a few singles however finds some grip and bounce into the discount.

93rd over: Australia 366-2 (Khawaja 168, Smith 119) Smith provides one other run to his second 10,000, driving handsomely to lengthy on. Khawaja sweeps the final ball of the over wonderful for 2. Each these batters are clear shaven, in contrast to the nine-of eleven moustache-toting Australian vacationers who contested the primary Take a look at towards Sri Lanka again in 1983.

Travis Head did the lip-bristlers proud yesterday, as did Magnum PI Tom Selleck who turns 80 immediately and will’ve handed for an Ausralian fast-bowler again within the 80s together with his style in loud shirts, quick shorts and flash automobiles.

92nd over: Australia 362-2 (Khawaja 166, Smith 117) Peirius rolls in once more however he’s not getting the motion Jayasuriya is discovering and it is perhaps time to present another person an opportunity with this contemporary cherry. There’s another excuse as Khawaja cracks one other boundary by at deep midwicket. Quick toes from the previous man of the Australian XI!

91st over: Australia 358-2 (Khawaja 162, Smith 117) Spin for Jayasuriya! Smith, batting in his saggy inexperienced cap, was overwhelmed by that one. It missed the bat and ricocheted off the hector protector with a boring however painless thud. Only a single from this over.

Australia have their third wicket on the MCG with Kim Garth claiming one other lbw to set England reeling at 45-3.

ninetieth over: Australia 357-2 (Khawaja 161, Smith 117) Nearly a catch! Khawaja lunged at Peiris with a reverse sweep and obtained a prime edge and it narrowly cleared the outstretched claws of the person at third man and runs away for FOUR. Smith takes a extra direct route, middling one towards the flip to notch his eleventh 4 for the innings.

89th over: Australia 348-2 (Khawaja 156, Smith 113) A few strolled singles for Smith and Khawaja as they unhurriedly steer Australia to a mountainous complete. Sri Lanka have been tighter this morning however there’s little menace evident simply but.

Within the Ladies’s Ashes Take a look at on the MCG, England are preventing again after shedding each openers cheaply. Right here’s Darcie Brown trapping Tammy Beaumont in entrance.

88th over: Australia 346-2 (Khawaja 155, Smith 112) Peiris notched his personal century this morning and begins his twenty fifth over with 0-102. Nonetheless simple runs on supply right here as Smith faucets a run and Khawaja swipes a single in return. Peiris will get one to jag again at Smith now and there’s a yelp from the bowler as a crowd catch off the thight pad lands within the ‘keeper’s gloves. Disgrace that didn’t occur yesterday. Sri Lanka grassed two behind the wicket yesterday and the primary catch they took didn’t depend as a result of they didn’t evaluation it!

87th over: Australia 343-2 (Khawaja 154, Smith 110) Jayasuriya has additionally notched a century but it surely’s not one he’ll relish. He begins his thirty fifth over with 1-106, a far cry so removed from his 12-wicket haul that crushed Australia and received Sri Lanka the second Take a look at right here in Galle again in 2022. Smith will get on his toes to steer a single by cowl and Jayasuriya finishes the over on a vivid not by flashing one previous Khawaja’s edge. Shut!

86th over: Australia 342-2 (Khawaja 154, Smith 109) That’s 150 for Khawaja! It got here from 223 balls, an excellent clip contemplating Khawaja’s often circumspect strategies. He celebrates by sinking right into a crouch and sweeping Peiris to the boundary. That’s Usman’s eleventh 4 of the innings. He additionally wailed a six yesterday for good measure.

eighty fifth over: Australia 336-2 (Khawaja 149, Smith 108) Nearly a run-out! Smith tapped Jayasuriya’s first supply into the covers and set off however Khawaja bellowed within the damaging and he needed to spin and scamper to make his floor. To keep away from additional confusion, Smith skips down and whacks the fifth ball simply shy of the rope. He will get two runs. That brings up the 200-run partnership for these two.

84th over: Australia 334-2 (Khawaja 149, Smith 106) Peiris to Khawaja as Sri Lanka go for twin-spin to begin day two. Unsurprising given medium-pacer Asitha Fernando went for close to six and over yesterday, most of it from the broad blade of Travis Head. Peiris does higher and delivers a maiden, his first from 23 overs.

83rd over: Australia 334-2 (Khawaja 149, Smith 106) Prabath Jayasuriya has been thrown the almost-new ball that’s simply 12 balls previous. I doubt the left-arm spinner slept as soundly as Khawaja after dropping Steve Smith off his personal bowling when the batter was on one. Precisely 105 runs later, Smith slaps a run by midwicket. Khawaja works one other run off his hip. Sri Lanka bowled too full yesterday and each batters are once more discovering simple runs off the again foot immediately.

82nd over: Australia 332-2 (Khawaja 148, Smith 105) Nishan Peiris will bowl the primary over of the day and it’s to Usman Khawaja who should’ve slept sweetly with 147 runs within the financial institution. He chips a single to cowl to reopen his account and Smith does likewise.

Steve Smith has been talking with the host broadcaster about reaching 10,000 Take a look at runs. He turned the fourth Australian to the milestone and fifteenth participant general. BY reaching the mark in his 205th innings, Smith turned the fifth quickest participant general to achieve the milestone. Solely Brian Lara (195), Sachin Tendulkar (195), Kumar Sangakkara (195) and Ricky Ponting (196) did it faster.

Yeah good to get that out of the way in which, it’s been a while coming. I had my alternative in Sydney a number of weeks again and let that slip. However good to get it out of the way in which first ball yesterday. I really feel like I’m batting properly in the mean time. Clearly very totally different situations to again dwelling. Yesterday was form of a hybrid wicket I believe, by way of once we got here right here final time. One of many Assessments final time was fairly flat first innings and the broke up. The opposite one was fairly excessive from the outset. So yesterday it appeared like within the center someplace. It was a pleasant partnership with Uzzie. I assumed he batted fantastically and I believe it’s a type of wickets it’s going to be difficult to begin on. However when you get the tempo of the wicket, it’ll get a bit simpler.

After lighting up the cricket world together with his batting pyrotechnics within the Boxing Day Take a look at towards India, loads of cricket followers had been dissatisfied by the omission of Sam Konstas from the Australian XI for this Take a look at, however the 19-year-old appears to have taken the information with typical nonchalance.

I’ve had the Ouija board out channelling the late nice Tony Greig’s Climate Wall and the excellent news is that it’s blue skies in Galle. The forecast for immediately was a bit grim, with extra showers predicted, however the day has dawned vivid and sunny and play will begin on time, which is to say quarter-hour early, at 3.15pm.

In Galle, the following man in for Australia is new No 5 Josh Inglis who yesterday turned Australian Take a look at cricketer No 470 (regardless of being born in England).

As Australia and Sri Lanka duel for the Warne and Muralidaran Trophy, Alyssa Healy is captaining Australia towards England within the sole Ladies’s Ashes Take a look at on the MCG.

Play has simply begun and England are in early hassle after Maia Bouchier nicked one behind for stand-in keeper Beth Mooney to take an early catch off the bowling of Kim Garth within the very first over!

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For individuals who got here in late, right here’s a match report of day one…

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