Delhi: On Saturday, Australia gave Sri Lanka a big defeat by an innings and 242 runs in the first Test match played in Gaul. With this victory, Australia has taken a 1-0 lead in the two-match Test series.

Australia's big score

Batting first, Australia declared their first innings on the second day with six wickets for 654 runs, which is their biggest score ever in Asia. After this big score, Sri Lanka had to play follow -on.

Sri Lanka's poor innings

Sri Lanka's first innings ended for 165 runs, and in the second innings the team could only score 247 runs. In this way, this was the biggest defeat in Sri Lanka's Test cricket according to the innings. Earlier in 2017, he had to face defeat against India by an innings and 239 runs.

Australia's brilliant batting and bowling

After Australia's brilliant batting by Usman Khwaja (232), captain Steve Smith (141) and Josh English (102), the bowlers also did wonders. Matthew Kunman gave a big blow to Sri Lanka with 9 wickets and Nathan Lion with 7 wickets.

Sri Lanka's second innings declines

Sri Lanka started their second innings with five wickets for 136 runs. In today's game, Matthew Kunman dismissed Sri Lankan captain Dhananjay Disilva. Subsequently, Disilva scored 39 runs with the help of eight fours. Kusal Mendis (34) was dismissed by Lion. Prabhat Jayasuriya and Nishan Piris were dismissed for zero. Finally, Kunman finished Sri Lanka's second innings by dismissing Jefra Wanders' (53).

Australia's big win

Australia won Sri Lanka for 247 runs in 54.3 overs and won by 242 runs.

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