Nathan Lyon's five-for assisted Australia with bowling out Sri Lanka for 212, preceding the hosts hit back with three wickets in a quick opening test on Wednesday.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Niroshan Dickwella made a disobedient 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.
The sightseers came to 98 for three at stumps after Sri Lankan spinner Ramesh Mendis struck two times, including David Warner's critical wicket for 25, on a turning pitch at the beautiful Galle arena.
Steve Smith was abandoned six after a misunderstanding with opener Usman Khawaja, unbeaten on 47, and got back to the structure waving his hands with consternation.
Khawaja and individual left-hander Travis Head, on six, were batting with Australia actually following by 114 runs in their most memorable innings.
Mendis, an offspinner, caught Warner lbw after the left-given opener hit five limits in a going after stay at the wicket.
Marnus Labuschagne was out to an endeavored turn around clear yet it was Smith's wicket that brought the home group alive. The previous commander was turned down halfway for a fast single by Khawaja and neglected to make the wrinkle in spite of a frantic plunge.
Khawaja, who endure a missed confusing by wicketkeeper Niroshan Dickwella, continued to battle till close of play.
Prior, Dickwella made a disobedient 58 preceding the Sri Lankan innings collapsed in the third meeting following the hosts' choice to bat first toward the beginning of the two-match series.
Lyon, who sacked his twentieth five-wicket pull in tests, joined with individual spinner Mitchell Swepson, a legspinner who took three wickets, to shake the resistance batting.
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 generally known to 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 Mendis, who made 22, for the seventh wicket.
Dickwella arrived at his fifty off 42 balls in the subsequent meeting however Lyon at last got him out, likewise sending back Mendis after tea.
Lyon got his fifth wicket in Lasith Embuldeniya and Swepson, who was on a full go-around denied by Dickwella, finished the innings after 59 overs.
Angelo Mathews likewise added to the Sri Lankan all out with his 39 and remained with Dickwella in a 42-run stand broken by Lyon.
Sri Lanka are bowling with four spinners and a solitary quick bowler in Asitha Fernando. Debutant legspinner Jeffrey Vandersay bowled three overs.
The island country, which won the one-day worldwide series against Australia 3-2, is doing combating a remarkable 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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