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Dimuk Karunaratne is unbeaten by scoring 34 runs.
The second match of Australia’s Sri Lanka tour is being played in Gaul. Thursday is the first day of the match. Sri Lanka have scored 87 for one wicket in the first innings till lunch.
Dimuk Karunaratne (34) and Dinesh Chandimal (35) are unbeaten playing 100th Test. Fifty partnership has been held between the two. Earlier, the Sri Lankan team has decided to bat by winning the toss.
Karunaratne-Chandimal’s Fifty Partnership Dimuk Karunaratne and Dinesh Chandimal, playing the 100th Test match, have completed the fifty partnership for the second wicket. The partnership has saved the top order of the hosts from disintegrating. The team lost the first wicket on the score of 23 runs. Here Nathan Lion bowled Pathum Nisanka. Nisanka was dismissed for 11 runs on 31 balls.
Nathan Lyon bowled Pathum Nisanka.
Australia ahead 1-0 in the series The Australian team is ahead 1-0 in this 2-match series. The team won the first Test played between January 29 and February 1 by an innings and 242 runs. Usman Khwaja Player of the Match, who played 232 runs, was elected.
Karunaratne is making Gord of Honor, Cup Konali debut Prior to the match, Sri Lankan players gave the Gord of Honor to Dimuth Karunaratne. He is playing the 100th Test match. Karunaratne had announced a retirement on 4 February two days ago, saying that ‘he is playing the last Test match.’
Dimuth Karunaratne was given the Gord of Honor in his 100th and last Test.
On the other hand, Cup Konali is making her debut for Australia. He was given a test cap by Simon Katich. He is the 471st cricketer to make a Test debut with the Kangaroo team.
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