Australia humiliate Sri Lanka by an innings & 242 runs with a day to spare. Lead the 02 match series 1 – 0

ICC 03rd World Test Championship 2023 – 2025 : Australia Men’s Tour of Sri Lanka – 01st Test – International Stadium, Galle District, Southern Province

Australia electing to bat, 654 / 6 dec – ( 154 Overs ) Usman Khawaja 232 ( 1×6, 16×4, 352 balls ) – career best, maiden double century, highest individual score by an Australian against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka – Skipper Steven Smith 141 ( 2×6, 12×4, 251 balls ) – completed 10,000 runs in this format, Joshua Inglis 102 ( 1×6, 10×4, 94 balls ) – on debut, maiden century – Travis Head 57, Alex Carey 46no, Extras 14 – Usman Khawaja / Travis Head 92 run opening stand, Usman Khawaja / Steven Smith 266 runs for the 03rd wicket, Usman Khawaja / Joshua Inglis 146 runs for the 04th wicket – lost the last 03 wickets for the addition of 82 runs – Jeffrey Vandersay 3 / 182, Prabath Jayasuriya 3 / 193, Kamindu Mendis 02 catches.

Sri Lanka in reply, 165 all out – ( 52.2 Overs ) Dinesh Chandimal 72, Skipper Dhananjaya De Silva 22, Kusal Mendis 21 – lost the first 05 wickets for the addition of 100 runs, the last 05 wickets fell for the addition of 09 runs – Matthew Kuhnemann 5 / 63, Nathan Lyon 3 / 57, Mitchell Starc 2 / 13, Alex Carey 03 victims & f/o 247 all out – ( 54.3 Overs ) Jeffrey Vandersay 53 – career best – Angelo Mathews 41, Skipper Dhananjaya De Silva 39, Kusal Mendis 34, Kamindu Mendis 32 – lost the first 02 wickets without any addition to the total – Dinesh Chandimal / Angelo Mathews 69 runs for the 03rd wicket – the next 03 wickets fell for the addition of 39 runs – Dhananjaya
de Silva / Kusal Mendis 65 runs for the 06th wicket – the last 04 wickets went down for the addition of 30 runs – Nathan Lyon 4 / 78, Matthew Kuhnemann 4 / 86, Travis Head & Mitchell Starc 02 catches each.

Player of the Match : Usman Khawaja – Australia

This was the worst ever defeat for Sri Lanka in test history.