Why did Travis Head fire a shot back at Ed Cowan? What does the future hold for Steve Smith? Has Labuschagne done enough? Can Green and Webster play in the same team? The burning questions from Australia’s victory in Sri Lanka.
Steve Smith has drawn upon his own recent resurgence as a reason to keep Marnus Labuschagne in Australia’s top three.
Australia finally conquered Sri Lanka,meaning they’ll head to the world Test championship final as firm favourites and,beyond that,to India with a clear strategy.
From Alex Carey’s best Test innings to date to a teammate who has put himself in danger of being dropped,here are our player ratings for the second Test in Galle.
As he took in the achievement of plucking 550 Test wickets and forecast many more,Nathan Lyon spoke glowingly of left-arm spinner Matt Kuhnemann as “our best bowler”.
In the final half hour of day three,Australia finally struck the pivotal blows to put them within sight of a 2-0 victory over Sri Lanka.
Sam Konstas learnt plenty from his debut summer,and has left his moustache behind. But he doesn’t want to be left out of the Test team for long.
Steve Smith is back to something like his best,Alex Carey has never played better,and Australia are batting Sri Lanka out of the Test.
Australia’s three specialist bowlers had to sweat while holding Sri Lanka to 9-229,as debutant Cooper Connolly bowled just three overs on day one of his Test career
Australian Geoff Allardice resigned as chief executive of the International Cricket Council after being told he would have to re-apply for his job.