31/08Result
1st Test, Australia tour of Sri Lanka at Galle, Aug 31-Sep 3 2011
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![Australia]( "Australia")
273 & 210 -
![Sri Lanka]( "Sri Lanka")
105 & 253 (95.5 ov)
Player of the Match
31/08Result
1st Test, Australia tour of Sri Lanka at Galle, Aug 31-Sep 3 2011
-
![Australia]( "Australia")
273 & 210 -
![Sri Lanka]( "Sri Lanka")
105 & 253 (95.5 ov)
Player of the Match
Best performances - Bowlers
NM Lyon
- O15
- M3
- R34
- W5
- Eco2.26
- FTFULL TOSS
- YYORKER
- FFULL LENGTH
- GGOOD LENGTH
- SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
- SSHORT LENGTH
RJ Harris
- O20
- M5
- R62
- W5
- Eco3.10
- FTFULL TOSS
- YYORKER
- FFULL LENGTH
- GGOOD LENGTH
- SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
- SSHORT LENGTH
Partnerships
- AUS - 1st
- SL - 1st
- AUS - 2nd
- SL - 2nd
Australia - 1st - Innings
Sri Lanka - 1st - Innings
Australia - 2nd - Innings
Sri Lanka - 2nd - Innings
Match Coverage
All Match NewsSLC gets official warning for Galle pitch
The ICC has given Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) an official warning for preparing a "poor" pitch in Galle for the first Test against Australia that was played from August 31-September 3
'My focus was on how I was going to score off every ball'
Mahela Jayawardene's recent fourth-innings hundred in Galle was one for the ages, produced over nearly four hours in conditions favouring the bowling side. He looks back at what went into the knock
Sutherland a fan of ball-tracking
Cricket Australia's chief executive, James Sutherland, believes cricket will hold itself up to ridicule unless technology used in the decision review system is consistent across all series
Better Galle than blandness
Why is a pitch that does a little too much deemed so much worse than one that's dead from day one?
'Tracking mistake' on Hughes lbw
Hawk-Eye's custodians have admitted the depiction of Phil Hughes' second-innings lbw dismissal in the Galle Test was rendered inaccurate by "a tracking mistake"
