Sri Lanka was 9-229 at stumps on Thursday after winning the toss and batting, having recovered from 6-150 after a defiant 65-run stand from Kamindu Mendis and Ramesh Mendis. Specialist tweakers ...

Sri Lanka skipper Dhananjaya de Silva called it ... Quite a bit on the line here in Galle.

But with the bat, Sri Lanka were especially inept. There should have been people who stopped Australia from dominating a Test at Galle, and imposing on Sri Lanka the biggest of the Test defeats ...

Australia has admitted their decision to drop Victorian Todd Murphy in favour of debutant part time spinner Cooper Connolly was made based on a misread of the second Test pitch conditions.