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Mitchell Starc continued his impressive performance in the second Domain Test by scoring twice earlier than expected and Pat Cummins then left Sri Lanka to leave Sri Lanka from 3am to 6pm on the morning of Day 4 in Manuka Oval. Canberra.
After Australia imposed victory on Sri Lanka 517 after a late declaration on the third day, Starc overthrew Dimener Karunaratne (eight) and Captain Dinesh Chandimal (four) left behind eight wickets of one. series swept by a wave of tourists.
Karunaratne was defeated when the left arm hit the southpaw, while Chandimal took advantage of a good lead over Marnus Labuschagne at the second slip, which took a good deep take.
Sri Lanka promoted Niroshan Dickwella, drummer-in-form, while Cummins claimed a 30-win for Lahiru Thirimanne.
The win for the hosts will take them to fourth place in the International Cricket Council Test Rankings.
The third day of Andrew Ramsey
Australia is poised to end a tough test summer on a positive note and enthusiastically launch the upcoming Ashes campaign with the outstanding performance of Mitchell Starc and Usman Khawaja, two troubled couples.
Starc produced its most powerful bowling spell of a difficult season to win 5-54, while Sri Lanka was competing for 215 losses, a deficit of 319 for the first run, before Khawaja broke with force. recent drought with a flush and undefeated defeat of 101 balls out of 136 face, sharing an entertaining stand of 159 races with Travis Head (59no).
After escaping the Starc game earlier in the day, Khawaja banished the demons that haunted him throughout the slim series against India and then Sri Lanka, and celebrated his event with a demonstration of the same. pure emotion.
The southpaw jumped through the air and enthusiastically raised his fist in his first century of summer, when Paine closed the second run of Australia at 3-196, placing Sri Lanka 516 unprecedented (and unlikely) to win the test and knot the 1-1 domain series.
When the stumps were fired twenty minutes in advance due to Canberra's failing light, the visitors were from 0 to 17 years old, the weather being their only realistic salvation.
Even though rain and thunderstorms are expected in Canberra over the next two days, the most likely outcome is a victory for Australia based on past efforts by tourists in batting strikes and doubts about Kusal Perara's health was injured after being hit in the head earlier in the day. .
This would also allow the Warne-Muralidaran trophy to return to Australia after returning to Sri Lanka in 2016 and to give an impetus to the ash campaign later this year, although concerns remain about the first order baton. .
If the conditions that welcomed the Australian players for the start of their second run constituted a radical change from the first – baking sun and bright blue sky compared to the cool and troubled weather of England last Friday -, the results were surprisingly similar.
The Sri Lankan bowlers may not have been able to move the ball as they did on the first day, but they were nevertheless rewarded for probing the outer limits of the best order of the day. 39 home team.
It was a tactic that immediately paid off: Australia was reduced to 3-37 out of 15 retirees – slightly better than the 3-28 that it lost in under nine the first morning of the Tests.
Considering the tracks that became available for the middle order following these two previous collapses, the novice opener Marcus Harris might have reasons to kick himself repeatedly.
For the second time in as many rounds, the southpaw has made his ticket window in a languid way. The exit today is imminent. He then pushed halfway and was "on the sidewalk", qualifying for the second slip.
The enthusiasm that Kusal Mendis showed when approaching that luck was defeated, his next effort, two badists later, when Centennial manufacturer Joe Burns hung a slanted stick at a ball that was crossing him and gave him a chance at the ankle of the first skid.
The hard luck was made to look rudimentary by Mendis who plunged to grab the ball between his wrists, showing greater insight with his catch than he did by scoring 21 on three innings with the bat.
Burns was lucky enough to have survived as long as he survived, having scored his first shot on his right foot after scoring his first single, and then seeing the ball shave one way or another. to the disbelief of pitcher Vishwa Fernando of Sri Lanka and their players.
There was a similar disbelief on the face of Marnus Labuschagne when he became the third Australian hitter to be caught behind the wicket in the space of an hour when his elbow naked without conviction when he was caught. Kasun Rajitha had a great save when it fell to the keeper.
Like Harris, Labuschagne had given up an invaluable opportunity to release a final result before the Ashes Test test against a modest opponent on a flat batting track, but he will end the match with just as many points (10) as # 39 he captured with test windows from him. rotation time.
But perhaps the most important news of the day happened before the ball was thrown.
After receiving a terrible blow to the base of the skull on Saturday afternoon, Dimuth Karunaratne opened the door of Sri Lanka. He was allowed to resume his sleeves that had been suspended prematurely after being hit by Pat Cummins.
If the sight of Karunaratne lying on the side of the field had an impact on the state of mind and the plans of the Australian bowlers the night before, they returned the next morning with total hostility and suffered another brutal blow.
Another bouncer delivered by Jhye Richardson around the wicket, which pioneered a way to the left-handed Kusal Perera and skidded to the height of the shoulder barely, hit the batter's protective helmet with a cooling force.
The impact not only dislodged the neckguard at the base of the helmet, but also destroyed the solid auditory shield that broke into pieces on the ground.
The Sri Lankan team doctor, overworked, immediately took over from Perera, who allowed him to continue his innings, but halfway through Nathan Lyon's victory over Perera he clearly started feeling bad and leaving the field.
There was a perverse irony in a batter forced to retire, injured because of a blow in the head substituted at the box office by a teammate who had suffered the same trauma less than a day ago, and the return to the center of Karunaratne gave no respite to his opponents. .
The opener was reminded that he was facing the same set as last Saturday, suggesting that he would face a new roadblock, and that he was warned to "watch out for 155", a brazen reference to bowling speeds. that Starc was doing right now.
The most striking similarity between the events of Days Two and Three was that the withdrawal of an established batter – 29 out of 63 bullets when he retired – caused a sudden cascade of wickets.
From the moment Karunaratne returned to action, his team returned 6-58 of the next 15 players to have a round end at 9-215, Perera not being able to return.
The architect of this collapse was apparently Starc, who boasted unflattering figures of 1-41 out of nine and more before unleashing the free fall, though unconsciously at first.
The left army sent a bouncer on the head of Dhananjaya de Silva, who launched a hook for more hope than defiance. The unenthusiastic appeal of Australia looking for a catch behind the glove was suspended when it was noted by De Silva the bail of the legs had been dislodged.
The mystery was finally solved by the video technology, the request of the referees in the field to their colleague in the gallery revealing that De Silva's bat had come into contact with the strains during his off-balance monitoring.
From that moment, Sri Lanka imploded in the same way that they managed twice in Brisbane while their last five wickets fell for the addition of 35 points.
Starc followed his fortuitous elimination of De Silva by a series of authoritarian strikes on both sides of the lunch break.
Karunaratne's second stint at the end came to an end when he led his attack to the ravine. The last duo, Rajitha and Fernando, perished by playing speculatively at the rate of Starc, which hovered around 150 km / h for much of the test.
In the midst of this carnage, Labuschagne eliminated Sri Lankan's most recent hitter, Niroshan Dickwella, who was aiming for an ambitious shot then an equally promising challenge against his decision Ibw that provided no evidence to overturn the decision on the ground.
When Paine chose, as expected, not to impose follow-up despite an advance of 319, the tourists again went on the field in the heat of another sultry afternoon of Canberra.
With a sudden change in the weather, it seems to be the only force that can stop Australia's victory.
Australia XI: Marcus Harris, Joe Burns, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Travis Head, Kurtis Patterson, Tim Paine (c / w), Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Jhye Richardson and Nathan Lyon
Sri Lanka XI: Dimuth Karunaratne, Lahiru Thirimanne, Dinesh Chandimal (c), Kusal Mendis, Kusal Perera, Dhananjaya de Silva, Niroshan Dickwella (week), Dilruwan Perera, Chamika Karunaratne, Vishwa Fernando, Kasun Rajitha
Domain Test Series v Sri Lanka
Australia: Tim Paine (c / week), Joe Burns, Pat Cummins, Marcus Harris, Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Kurtis Patterson, Will Pucovski, Jhye Richardson, Peter Siddle, Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis
Sri Lanka: Dalsh Chandimal (c), Dimuth Karunaratne, Lahiru Thirimanne, Kusal Mendis, Sadeera Samarawickicka, Silva Dhananjaya, Roshen Silva, Niroshan Dickwella (wk), Kusal Perera, Lakshan Fernando
First test: Australia won by a round and 40 points
Second test: February 1 to 5, Canberra
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