Travis Head takes the key wicket of Kamindu Mendis as Australia gets on top of Sri Lanka after the lunch break. Follow live.
Tea is just under 20 minutes away. The batters were starting to figure out Travis Head, so here comes Lyon with 3-40 from his 18 overs.Thu 6 Feb 2025 at 8:49amAgain he's hiding the ball in his right hand as he charges in before transferring to his bowling hand before the crease.And the next ball he paws at outside off. Just very awkward to face this sort of late swing, even for a batter as good as Dinesh Chandimal.
And fair enough too when Starc is bowling balls like that. He's angling in sharply and swinging away. Mendis is pushing outside off, but lucky not to nick off. He fires one down leg and a wide one outside off. Is he spraying it as he searches for the miracle ball, or playing 4D chess to set up Kusal Mendis?
Dinesh Chandimal must be shaking his head at the efforts of his teammates. He's making it look so easy as they flail away at the other end. He's going around the wicket to the left-handed Kamindu, who doesn't like being tied down for too long.Kuhnemann bowls one outside off stump and it's driven through backward point for a single, a little too much width there.Kamindu skips down the track but gets beaten in flight again, flicks it into the leg side and the ball almost carries to the man at midwicket.
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