Lyon packs five as Australia bowl out Sri Lanka for 212
Spinner Nathan Lyon guaranteed five wickets as Australia bowled out Sri Lanka for 212 on a turning contribute at Galle the initial test on Wednesday.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Niroshan Dickwella made a resistant 58 preceding the Sri Lankan innings collapsed in the third meeting of a quick game on the first day of the season of the two-match series.
Lyon, who stowed his twentieth five-wicket pull in tests, joined with individual spinner Mitchell Swepson, a legspinner who took three wickets, after the vacationers were placed in to handle first.
Quick bowlers Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc hit right on time with a wicket each as Sri Lanka took lunch at 68-2. The spinners before long assumed responsibility on a pitch customarily known to a help the sluggish bowlers.
The left-given Dickwella counter-went after during his 59-ball stay at the wrinkle and put on key organizations, including a 54-run stand with Ramesh Mendis, who made 22, for the seventh wicket.
Dickwella arrived at his fifty off 42 balls in the subsequent meeting however Lyon got him out before long, likewise sending back Mendis after tea.
Lyon got his fifth wicket in Lasith Embuldeniya and Swepson finished the innings after 59 overs.
Prior, Swepson struck on progressive balls to get Dhananjaya de Silva, for 14, and Dinesh Chandimal, for nothing, as David Warner clutched a shuffling get after the ball strayed from the wicketkeeper's glove.
Dickwella denied Swepson his full go-around and hit back with three limits in one over from Lyon.
Be that as it may, the offspinner returned solid in his next over to excuse Angelo Mathews, for 39, and finished a 42-run represent the 6th wicket.
Australia were unaltered from the group that got a 1-0 series prevail upon Pakistan in March.
Sri Lanka, who whitewashed the travelers 3-0 of every 2016, gave legspinner Jeffrey Vandersay his test debut.
The island country, which won the one-day worldwide series against Australia 3-2, is engaging an extraordinary financial emergency, with individuals the nation over battling to pay for food, fuel and different necessities.
SRI LANKA: Pathum Nissanka, Dimuth Karunaratne (capt), Kusal Mendis, Angelo Mathews, Dhananjaya de Silva, Dinesh Chandimal, Niroshan Dickwella, Ramesh Mendis, Jeffrey Vandersay, Lasith Embuldeniya, Asitha Fernando
AUSTRALIA: David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Cameron Green, Alex Carey, Pat Cummins (capt), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Swepson
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