SL vs AUS: Innings defeat actuality test, says Pat Cummins after Australia lose Galle Test

Australia captain Pat Cummins stated their collapse from 298 for five on the second morning was “an opportunity missed” and the loss in Galle, by an innings and 39 runs, could be a “reality check” for the Australia group.

Left-arm spinner Prabath Jayasuriya picked up the fourth-best figures within the historical past of check match cricket by a debutant to again up Dinesh Chandimal’s first double hundred as Sri Lanka beat Australia by an innings and 39 runs on Monday.

Electing to bat, the vacationers have been in nice form at 329/5 within the first innings, however they misplaced their final 5 wickets rapidly to be all out for 364 with Steve Smith stranded on 145. Alex Carey missed a few stumping probabilities and Australia paid closely for losing three critiques as Sri Lanka amassed 554 of their reply.

The guests have been stung when Dinesh Chandimal, then on 30, edged behind however Australia had run out of critiques and couldn’t problem the not-out determination. Chandimal went on to smash a career-best 206 not out.

“We had plenty of chances over the last couple of days and didn’t quite grab them,” Cummins stated after their loss.

“Unfortunately Sri Lanka were too good.”

“We probably got ourselves in a position where 400-plus in the first innings was achievable and we didn’t have someone to go with Smithy down the other end.”

Australia are scheduled to tour India subsequent yr and Cummins stated the Sri Lanka tour was a superb publicity of their bid to reach subcontinental situations.

“These are the tours where you learn heaps. We learned heaps during our win last week, unfortunately it’s through a loss this time.

“I believed plenty of the fellows, both on their first tour right here or others who have been coming again, everybody discovered a technique that labored – sadly it did not work out at this time.

“As a batting and bowling group, I think we can go home pretty pleased.”

Sri Lanka counterpart Dimuth Karunaratne was happy how his group bounced again to degree the collection.

“We knew it would be a good wicket for a couple of days, that’s why I asked the batters to get the maximum out of that.”

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