Lunch Sri Lanka 75 For 3 (Mathews 34 *, Starc 1 -11, Lyon 1-17) and 165 (Chandimal 72, de Silva 22, Kuhnemann 5-63, Lyon 3-57) Trail Australia 654 for December 6 by 414 races
The mood of Australia clarified considerably under a clear sky in Galle as they headed for a first test victory after winning eight Sri Lankan counters on two rounds before lunch on the fourth day.
After a truncated truncated, the normal game resumed and Australia could remarkably able to fill the victory in four days, but there are rain forecasts in the afternoon. Clear time is expected on Sunday.
Kuhnemann celebrated his first trial match in almost two years with three counters in the morning session to record his second test Five Wicket Hurping, while Lyon took 3 for 57.
With a massive advance of 489 points, the fourth largest Australian Australian advantage, and with its well-rested quisors, the Captain Stand-in Steven Smith decided to enforce the follow-up.
The opener Oshada Fernando in the third above Fell Plumb LBW with fierce delivery in Starc. Fernando, confusing, wasted a review in another unhappy use of Sri Lanka technology in what was a lamentable performance in all areas.
This meant that Chandimal came to the fold less than an hour after his previous dismissal in the first round. But he looked at the other end like the opener Dimuth Karunaratne had a horrible error of judgment and was likely not to play a blow against Murphy.
Sri Lanka had remarkably lost 7 for 15 on the two rounds in just over an hour. But Chandimal has once again played fluent until he hinders Lyon in his short leg while Australia successfully passes to the Not Out decision.
Australia will feel relieved after the last two sessions of the third day have been swept away. There had been questions raised on the question of whether Australia beat for too long in their first rounds while they displayed their highest total in Asia.
Taking up at 136 for 5, Sri Lanka found himself in an unexpected hope of surviving with a draw due to the wet time. But they desperately needed Chandimal for having compiled half a century attractive on the third day.
The pressure was on the Chandimal and the Kusal Meeting goalkeeper Mendis as the last recognized strikers before the tail.
Smith deployed Kuhnemann and Lyon spinners from the start while Chandimal deployed the reverse scan he had used with the truncated the third day.
It was a cautious beginning of Sri Lanka strikers with Kuhnemann extracting an awkward rebound that sometimes raised the surface. Mendis went to his privileged sweep against Kuhnemann and he struck a border to raise the 150 of Sri Lanka.
But Australia was well prepared with their tactics and bait in the scan with two fields of fields positioned deep from the counter. Mendis could not contain himself and her head aboard a sweep to be well caught by a Murphy Todd in the course of the square leg.
The burden fell on Chandimal, who had not been able to resume his mastery earlier in the sleeves. His rear guard finally ended when he missed a reverse scan to fall in LBW in Lyon when he examined in vain.