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Australian players celebrating victory.
Australia defeated Sri Lanka by an innings and 242 runs in the first match of the two -match Test series. The Kangaroo team took a 1-0 lead in the series. The second Test will be played in Gaul itself from 6 February.
On the fourth day of the match on Saturday, Sri Lanka's team was all out for 165 runs in the first innings in the first session. Australia declared their first innings on a score of 654/6. In this way, Sri Lanka was forced to play follow -on, following 489 runs. The team then was reduced to 247 runs in the second innings.
Sri Lanka's 15 wickets fell on the fourth day On the fourth day, Sri Lanka carried out its first innings with a score of 136/5. Dinesh Chandimal started playing ahead with a score of 63 and Kusal Mendis. The team was all out after scoring 165 runs. Matthew Kuhneman from Australia took 5 wickets. Nathan Lion took 3 wickets and Mitchell Starc got 2 wickets.
Dinesh Chandimal scored 72 runs.
Even 55 overs could not last in the second innings Sri Lanka also started their second innings on the fourth day. The team was all out after scoring 247 runs after playing 54.3 overs. 5 batter got a good start in the middle order, but no batter could play a big innings. Finally, Jeffrey Wandersce scored 53 runs.
5 players from the home team could not even cross the 10 -run figure. In the second innings from Australia, Matthew Kunhaman and Nathan Lion took 4-4 wickets. Mitchell Starc and Tod Murphy got 1–1 wickets.
Mathyu Kuhnemand took 8 wickets in the match.
Khwaja's double century on the second day
Smith scored a century on the first day
Smith fourth kangaroo batter scoring 10,000 runs Steve Smith achieved 10,000 runs figures as soon as he scored 1 run on the first day of the match. Smith achieved this figure in 205 innings. Smith became the 15th batsman in the world to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket. He has become the fourth batsman of Australia to do so. Prior to him, former captain Ricky Ponting (13378 runs), Alan Border (11174 runs) and Steve Waugh (10927 runs) have achieved this achievement.
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