Australia’s captain Pat Cummins believes Cameron Green has graduated from the school of how to play spin bowling in Asia faster than anyone could have expected.
Australia have destroyed Sri Lanka in conditions made to order for the hosts,as Travis Head delivered a magical cameo to finish off the work of Nathan Lyon and Mitch Swepson.
Before this Test,part-timer spinner Travis Head failed to take a wicket from 228 deliveries. He bagged four wickets in 17 balls on a chaotic opening session on Friday.
Test cricket needs to find a way of joining the modern age.
Usman Khawaja says Australia have abandoned some “absolute bull crap” coaching orthodoxy to make runs in Galle.
Seven balls into day two,it seemed Australia’s cricketers might be about to face a repeat of their 2016 Sri Lankan nightmare. By the close of a day’s play,Australia had a 101-run lead and Cameron Green had made giant strides.
Half centuries from Usman Khawaja and Cameron Green helped Australia chalk up a healthy first innings lead on day two in Galle after a lengthy rain delay.
A couple of harebrained moments in the final hour of the opening Test against Sri Lanka left Australia at risk of squandering a breakthrough spell by Mitch Swepson and a sturdy shift by Nathan Lyon.
Nathan Lyon suffered a back spasm in his very first over of the series,before sharing eight wickets with Mitch Swepson
Eleven years after claiming five wickets on debut in Galle,Nathan Lyon has repeated the performance in very different circumstances.
Australia finished 3-98 at stumps,trailing by 114 runs,after a dramatic day which saw Steve Smith involved in a horror run-out with Usman Khawaja. Here’s how it went down.