Chandimal, who was promoted to the crucial number three position last year and has averaged over 50 since, stood firm and bunkered in for an uphill battle in avoiding the follow-on.

Sri Lanka's Dinesh Chandimal was waging a lone battle on 63 with Australia ahead by 518 runs and tightening their grip on the ...

Smith, who got off the mark with his 10,000th Test run on day one, still has a fair bit of work to do to catch Tendulkar’s ...

Mitchell Starc achieved a significant milestone by taking the important wicket of Dimuth Karunaratne during the second ...

Rain and Dinesh Chandimal have emerged as the major roadblocks to the Australian push for victory over Sri Lanka in the first ...

In the past 15 years, Australia have only enforced the follow-on five times, with acting skipper Smith in command for one of ...

The total of 654 scored against Sri Lanka in the first innings in Galle is Australia’s 13th highest in Test history and their ...

Australian cricket legend Ian Healy believes veteran batter Steve Smith has the potential to continue playing international cricket until the age of 40, following his performance in Sri Lanka.

Steve Smith scored his 10,000th test run to put him in elite cricket company and Australia was 145-2 after winning the toss and batting Wednesday in the first test against Sri Lanka. Smith needed only ...

Australia had Sri Lanka three down after opener Usman Khawaja's first double century and a ton on debut by Josh Inglis helped ...

Sri Lanka is staring down the barrel at 44-3 after Australia achieved its largest ever total in Asia — 654-6 declared — on ...

Usman Khawaja becomes the first Australian batter to score a double century in Australia. While centuries from Steve Smith ...