- Updates from the third day of the first Test in Galle
- Play start time is 10am local/3.30pm AEDT
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18th over: Sri Lanka 61-3 (Chandimal 23, Mendis 14) Nathan Lyon is fizzing his off spinners into the rough left by Mitchell Starc’s big hooves. Second ball falls short of that golden rough and Chandimal pulls it for a boundary. Lyon’s riposte is brilliant. Chandimal is drawn forward to a floater and gets a thick edge. It should be safely scooped up by first slip but Smith is standing wider than usual and it flies past his left hand and runs for four. Lyon puts his hands to his head, tearing out invisible hair. He recovers to rip another past the edge. Chandimal recovers too, reverse sweeping the final ball for four. 12 from the over!
17th over: Sri Lanka 47-3 (Chandimal 9, Mendis 14) Mitchell Starc opens Australia’s attack from the other end. Straight away he slides a sweet nut past Mendis’s edge. Wry grins from batter and bowler. Beautiful bowling at 144kph. Starc is wearing long inner sleeves under his shirt today, perhaps a birthday present for turning 35 yesterday? Starc is full and focused on that channel outside off. Mendis survives but can’t score.
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Author : Angus Fontaine (now) and Rob Smyth (later)
Publish date : 2025-01-31 04:35:07
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