This is going to be ugly for us. We've only beaten them once in tests and this is the weakest sl side in a long time

Well, you weren't wrong about this!

BBC programme celebrating Gary Sobers's 80th birthday

probably the GOAT cricketer

This SL v Aus test could really be a close one. Mendis' innings seems truly special given how poor everyone else has batted and has given SL a real chance!

Indeed. Was pretty shocked when I flicked to the score while at work. Really even in the betting, Aus being slight favourites. I would guess the market prices in an assumption that the remaining Sri Lanka batsmen are skittled in fairly quick order. If that doesn't happen, the picture changes quite drastically.

Mendis wow! Hopefully some lolAustralia coming up!

Sri Lanka are desperately in need of a world class test batsmen to step up, this guy could be one!

Lolstralia

It's live on Eurosport!

Wish I'd known that sooner.

This, what a win by Sri Lanka

BOOOM, nice win

World record by Australia! 154 consecutive deliveries without a run.

Where's bundy?

lolstrailia bunch of flat track bullies. can rack up 600 on a flat Brisbane pitch but can't play against the moving or turning ball.

lolz

I did once bat out with 9 wickets down and a random non-batsman 15year old as a partner for 22 overs in a Sunday friendly (though we did score a small amount) yw Twickenham CC

Well when you have one player (Smith) as being the only decent player of spin, is it any wonder that they lose despite having the better bowling line-up.

On the other hand, you may have thought after bowling Sri Lanka out for 117 first innings, they might just have had enough to scrape the win. Fair enough for taking it on the chin though.

To be honest, I'm a bit worried about how England will get on in India this winter. I think England are better equipped than Australia are from a batting perspective but India is the toughest test possible in those conditions. From a bowling perspective, we're less well prepared. We don't have a Nathan Lyon equivalent (a spinner who plays virtually every match and performs consistently well). Moeen will play partly because of his batting and partly because if he doesn't, we'll have to call up a relative rookie alongside Rashid. I think when all is said and done, it'll end up that the pace attack does the bulk of the work as usual. How far that gets us in the subcontinent I'm not sure.

Absolutely I can say that I was chuffed when I read the scoreboard that Sri Lanka had been bowled out for 117 and thinking that how could Australia lose from here but the result shows just how much of a "test" test match cricket is that you have to be on top of your game the entire 5 days as one poor innings and you can let the other team in to win. Just look at that test match in 2001 in Kolkata when Australia asked India to follow on with a lead of 300 having bowled them out for 171 for them to comeback and win by 171 runs.

I agree that England are better served than Australia when travelling to India and facing their conditions with the general slower and lower pitches in England compared to Australia. To be honest though, I can't split the batting between England and Australia. It will be a great summer next year here.

I agree that Aus vs Eng in Australia should be very close. Aus would rightly be slight favourites on home soil. I think England are the better side generally at the moment though and if we hosted you in England, I think we'd be bigger favourites. Not sure that this will be true by the time you come over here though as lots can happen in that time.

Can I get some lolCook for using Woakes so badly today?

Well this doesn't look great for the Aussies. Happy to say I was dead wrong about this series. This is why test cricket is so great

Haven't been able to watch due to work but this is not a narrative I have come across. Heard Woakes opened one end today which was unexpected in a good way to me.

What makes you say this? I am curious

Edit: this post meant to quote tchaz. Not sure if that happened as on phone

Hales GOAT

Herath GOAT

Lolstralia

Lolstralia

Not sure which day you're talking about on but Anderson and Broad opened each time on the 2nd day