Sri Lankan spinner Prabath Jayasuriya took six wickets on his Test debut against Australia in Galle.
Australia earn collapsed on the 2d day of the 2d Test in Galle to be all out for 364, with Sri Lanka’s debutant Prabath Jayasuriya claiming six wickets.
After attending to 5-329 and with century-maker Steve Smith unbeaten, Australia lost their final five wickets for apt 35 runs as Jayasuriya ran through the tail.
Sri Lanka then went to lunch at 0-8 after getting through the well-known three overs from Australia’s quicks.
Truly, the hosts need any individual to play an innings of the usual of Smith’s to preserve far flung from a 2-0 sequence loss on dwelling soil.
Smith executed 145 no longer out, after mentioning his first century in only 18 months on day one.
When he and Carey resumed at 5-298 on Saturday, it regarded as if Australia could well presumably also maintain to a mountainous in finding.
Nonetheless the morning’s play swung severely when Carey reverse-swept Jayasuriya to Ramesh Mendis at a deep point on 28.
Smith carried on, producing one more shining on-power to the long-on boundary off Jayasuriya.
Nonetheless on the slightly just a few terminate, wickets persevered to fall as fleet as protesters circled the outskirts of the bottom amid Sri Lanka’s recent economic crisis.
Mitchell Starc (1) was caught firstly slide by Kusal Mendis off Jayasuriya, Nathan Lyon (5) trapped lbw by the left-arm finger-spinner and Pat Cummins (5) was also lbw to quickly Kasun Rajitha.
Smith then controlled the strike to get extra day out of the game on a carrying wicket, earlier than Mitchell Swepson was debutant Maheesh Theekshana’s first Test wicket when he was lbw for 3.
Jayasuriya’s figures of 6-118 are the 2d handiest by a Sri Lankan on debut in Test history, having also got the most indispensable wicket of Marnus Labuschagne for 104 on the opening day with person that turned sharply.
Australian Associated Press