Mitchell Starc
Canberra, February 3
Usman Khawaja found his scoring touch and fast bowler Mitchell Starc returned to his fiery best as Australia moved within sight of victory in the second Test against Sri Lanka.
After Australia set the tourists 516 for victory openers Dimuth Karunaratne and Lahiru Thirimanne survived some nervy moments to take Sri Lanka to 17/0 before bad light ended the third day’s play. Starc picked up his 10th five-wicket haul as Australia bundled out Sri Lanka for 215 to take a lead of 319. — AFP
Brief Scores: Aus: 534/5 decl and 196/3 decl (Khawaja 101*, Head 59*; K Rajitha 2/64); SL: 215 all out in 68.3 overs (Karunaratne 59, L Thirimanne 41; Starc 5/54) and 17/0)
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