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Australia vs Sri Lanka Scorecard, 1st Test, Sri Lanka vs Australia 2022
Result · Jun 29 2022, Wed - 09:35 AM (IST)
SRI LANKA212, 113
AUSTRALIA321, 10/0
Australia won by 10 wickets
CRR:15
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | Australia in Sri Lanka 2022 |
| Date: | Jun 29 2022, Wed - 09:35 AM (IST) |
| Country: | Sri Lanka |
| City: | Galle |
| Venue: | Galle International Stadium |
| Toss: | Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat. |
| Sri Lanka Playing XI: | Pathum Nissanka, Dimuth Karunaratne (c), Kusal Mendis, Angelo Mathews, Dhananjaya de Silva, Dinesh Chandimal, Niroshan Dickwella (wk), Ramesh Mendis, Jeffrey Vandersay, Lasith Embuldeniya, Asitha Fernando, Oshada Fernando |
| Australia Playing XI: | David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Cameron Green, Alex Carey (wk), Pat Cummins (c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Swepson |
- Sri Lanka have won three of their last five men's Tests against Australia (L2) after not having won in any of their 15 previous meetings in the format (D5 L10); in fact, Sri Lanka have won each of their last three games against Australia on home soil.
- If Australia win this Test match against Sri Lanka it will be their 400th win in the format and the first team to achieve as many Test wins, they have played 842 matches, won 399 (D 215 T2 L 226).
- Sri Lanka have lost only two of their last 10 men's Tests (W4 D4). losing twice to India in March 2022; they had lost four consecutive Tests prior to that 10-game span.
- Sri Lanka have won eight of their last 12 men's Tests at Galle International Stadium including their last two in succession (L4); the last time they won more consecutive games at the venue was a four-Test streak from August 2015 to March 2017.
- Australia are undefeated in their last eight men's Tests (W5 D3), last posting a loss in the format in January 2021 against India at Brisbane; in fact, Australia have not lost a men's Test away from home since September 2019 against England at The Oval (W1 D2 since).
- Sri Lanka batters have made a good connection on 73% of balls faced in men's Tests since the beginning of 2021, the highest rate of any team to play more than two Tests in that period.
- Australia have a batting strike rate of 59.3 against spin in men's Tests since the beginning of 2021, the highest rate of any team in that period despite scoring just 40% of their runs against spin from boundaries - the lowest rate of any team.
- Niroshan Dickwella (Sri Lanka) is set to play his 50th Test, he has a career tally of 24 Test stumpings, the third-most of any Sri Lanka player in men's Tests (Prasanna Jayawardene - 32, Romesh Kaluwitharana - 26).
- Three players have logged a Test batting average of 100 or higher in the men's format in 2022 when facing balls from over the wicket, with two of those three set to participate in the series between Sri Lanka and Australia (Usman Khawaja - 173.5, Dimuth Karunaratne - 127)).
- Usman Khawaja (49 Tests) is set to play his 50th Test for Australia, more than 11 years after making his Test debut in January 2011; Khawaja has four scores of 90+ runs in his last three Tests, including two centuries, but has a batting average of just 28.4 against Sri Lanka - his second lowest against any team he's played more than one Test against.