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Jeffrey Vandersay (SL) became the first Sri Lankan batter batting at number nine or lower to score an half-century in an innings of a Test match against Australia. [33] This was Australia's fourth largest innings victory [34] and Sri Lanka's biggest defeat. [35] World Test Championship points: Australia 12, Sri Lanka 0.
Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field. Only 20.4 overs of play was possible on Day 1 due to rain. Sri Lanka recorded their lowest total in Tests. [11] [12] Prabath Jayasuriya (SL) took his 100th wicket in Tests. [13] Marco Jansen (SA) took his maiden ten-wicket haul in Tests. [14] World Test Championship points: South Africa 12, Sri Lanka 0.
The format of the tournament was also announced. It would comprise an inaugural league stage, played over a period of four years, with all ten current Test cricket nations (Australia, India, England, South Africa, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, West Indies, Zimbabwe, and Bangladesh) participating. After the league stage the top four teams ...
It was the first time that Sri Lanka had beaten Australia by an innings in a Test match. [20] Dinesh Chandimal scored his first double century in a Test match with 206 not out, [21] and Prabath Jayasuriya took the best bowling figures for a Sri Lanka player on debut, with 12 for 177. [22]
A player has taken two hat-tricks in the same Test match only once. Playing for Australia against South Africa in the first match of the 1912 Triangular Tournament at Old Trafford, Manchester, England, leg spinner Jimmy Matthews took a hat-trick in South Africa's first and second innings, both taken on 28 May 1912.
Follow all the latest live coverage of today's match in the live blog below: Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka. 08:31. Teams will be announced at the toss. Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka. 08:30. Follow live ...
Australia scored the highest ever team total in ODIs (434); surpassing Sri Lanka's total of 398 in 1996; before South Africa surpassed it in the same match (438). [Later Surpassed] South Africa chasing 434 was the highest successful ODI chase of all time and the highest team total in the second innings in ODIs.
The South Africa cricket team toured Sri Lanka in July and August 2018 to play two Tests, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and a Twenty20 International (T20I) match. [1] [2] [3] Originally, the tour was for three Test matches, but the third match was dropped and replaced by the ODI and T20I fixtures. [4]