Sri Lanka v Australia: second males’s cricket Take a look at, day 4 – reside | Australia cricket group
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Nathan Lyon casually strolled previous 550 Take a look at wickets yesterday – simply the seventh man in historical past to attain the feat.
Ever humble, the outdated man from the city of Younger (the place the prize export is good cherries), was fast to shift the reward to spin associate Matthew Kuhnemann and in addition pay tribute to 2 legends who sat on his shoulders and whispered in his ears as he made historical past.
Will Lyon ship two candy cherries this morning to wrap up the Sri Lankan innings?
Earlier than the Ashes kick off in Perth on November 21, Australia’s males will embark on a winter tour of the West Indies. If the prospect of a Melbourne winter doesn’t thrill the nippiness out of your bones, dates for the tour have simply been introduced.
Winter within the Windies? Don’t thoughts if we do! 🌴
The schedule for our Australian Males’s Cricket Workforce’s tour of the West Indies this June/July is right here 🚨 pic.twitter.com/SXqimXkYO7
— Cricket Australia (@CricketAus) February 5, 2025
If the prospect of a collection whitewash towards Sri Lanka wasn’t scrumptious sufficient for Australian cricket followers, right here’s Barney Ronay on the most recent spherical of infighting inside English cricket…
Bazball will not be a cult. Perhaps it’s really a loss of life cult. As a result of England are, on the numbers, immediately horrible at cricket. And horrible in a approach that feels uniform and on-message
What candy music to Australian ears that’s. Carry on the Ashes!
For individuals who got here in late… right here’s a wrap of day three.
Preamble
Angus Fontaine
Greeting cricket followers! Welcome to day 4 of the second Take a look at between Australia and Sri Lanka at Galle Worldwide Cricket Stadium.
Australia are 1-0 up within the collection and might be 2-0 in a matter of hours in the event that they proceed to monster the Sri Lankans this morning. The house aspect will resume at 211 for 8, a slim lead of 54 runs on Australia’s mammoth first innings of 414, however with simply two wickets in hand.
Sri Lanka’s hopes sit heavy on the shoulders of first-innings hero Kusal Mendis (48 not out) after they once more misplaced a clump of key of middle-order wickets yesterday, together with the prized scalp of veteran Angelo Mathews for 76. Lyon was the murderer there, ending a partnership of 70 to gave Australia the sting on a day during which 15 wickets fell.
Australia constructed their 414 on the again of the 259-run stand from Steve Smith (131) and Alex Carey (156) – a 157-run benefit on the primary innings. Carey’s swashbuckling 150 runs from 175 balls swept him previous Adam Gilchrist’s two scores of 144 to set a brand new highest rating for Australian wicketkeepers in Asia.
That 157-run lead would possibly’ve been extra however for some effective bowling by Prabath Jayasuriya. He punched via Australia’s center order in fashion, grabbing 5-151 and sparking a late-order collapse that claimed first-Take a look at centurion Josh Inglis (0), new boy Cooper Connolly (4), Beau Webster (31) and Mitchell Starc (8).
Nevertheless, Sri Lanka couldn’t money in with the bat. And if Nathan Lyon (3-80) and Matthew Kuhnemann (4-52) decide up the place they left off yesterday and Travis Head swats one other a quick-fire half-century from the highest, Australia can financial institution their first collection whitewash on the subcontinent in almost 20 years.
Can Mendis conjure one other rearguard motion to scramble Sri Lanka right into a three-figure complete and provides Jayasuriya one thing to bowl at on a fizzing Galle wicket? Or will the Australians blitz the tail and unleash ‘The Hammer’ Head to blaze a path to victory?
Play begins at 3.30pm so be part of us quickly to search out out.
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