Sri Lanka v Australia: second men’s cricket Test, day one – live
- Updates from the opening day of the match in Galle
- Cooper Connolly makes Test debut for Australia
- Any thoughts? Email James
2nd over: Sri Lanka 5-0 (Nissanka 4, Karunaratne 1) Matt Kuhnemann from the other end. He serves up a full bunger to Karunaratne as a final Test gift to get off the mark. The batter swats away to the sweeper on the leg side boundary and will be glad to get down the non-striker’s end by the looks of it.
Kuhnemann looks dangerous right away! The new ball skids along the surface and pins Nissanka on the pad. Big appeal but it was missing leg… Even bigger appeal! This looks closer – struck on the back pad this time! Australia review but Nissanka survives – just – the ball was hitting leg stump but it was umpires call so the on field decision of not out stands.
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