Today (30th), which was the second day of the first test match of the Vaughan-Murali Cup Test series, which is being held in connection with the Australian team's tour of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka, who were playing the first innings, were in a difficult situation losing 3 wickets for 44 runs.Accordingly, Sri Lanka is 610 runs behind Australia in the first innings.

Accordingly, when the day started yesterday, Australia had accumulated 330 runs with the loss of only 2 wickets.Acting captain Steve Smith and Usman Khawaja, who built the decisive connection of the match, stood out as they built a 266-run partnership for the third wicket.
However, yesterday when another 71 runs were added to the Australian scoreboard, Geoffrey Vandersay was able to remove captain Steve Smith from the field as the third wicket. The number of runs collected in 251 balls was 141 when Smith got out after being caught in the mistake of guarding the wicket.
After that, Josh English, who joined Khawaja in his Test debut, also put on a 146-run stand for Australia's fourth wicket, putting the match in the hands of the Australians. Meanwhile, Usman Khawaja also scored the first double century of his Test career.It went down in history as the highest score scored by an Australian batsman in a Test match in Sri Lanka. However, Usman Khawaja, who had accumulated 232 runs, was bowled by Prabhat Jayasuriya and left the field as the fourth wicket by giving the ball to wicket-keeper Kusal Mendis.
Josh English also scored 102 runs in the first innings of his Test career. English was out for the 5th wicket of the Australian innings after being caught by Kamindu Mendis after a ball from Jayasuriya.Josh English also made history as the 21st Australian batsman to score a century on his Test debut.
Vandersay was able to bowl Beau Webster for 23 runs due to Kamindu Mendis's skillful fielding.
However, after that, the Australian captain decided to suspend his first innings in the 153rd over of the Australian innings. At that time, the Australian innings was recorded as 654 for 6 wickets.Alex Carey and Mitchell Starc were unbeaten on 46 and Mitchell Starc on 19 when the innings was suspended.
While bowling for Sri Lanka, Prabhat Jayasuriya and Geoffrey Vandersay took 3 wickets each.
After that, Oshadha Fernando became the first wicket of the Sri Lankan team who started the first innings and he could collect only 7 runs. Dimuth Karunaratne, who failed once again, left the field as the second wicket for 7 runs.Angelo Mathews, who was under a lot of pressure, had collected only 7 runs when he was dismissed as the third wicket.However, when the match was stopped on the second day due to bad weather, Kamindu Mendis, who was batting unbeaten, scored 13 runs and Dinesh Chandimal scored 9 runs.
The acting captain of the Australian team, Stephen Smith, who won the toss of the match at the Galle International Cricket Stadium, decided to score first.
Travis Head, who got off to a strong start, scored his 18th half-century in his Test career and was bowled out for 57 runs. Manas Labuschagne managed to score only 20 points.Labuschagne was dismissed by Geoffrey Vandersay's delivery to Dhananjaya de Silva, who was fielding at slip.
Score summary
Australia 1st innings - 654/6 (154) (Usman Khawaja 232, Steven Smith 141, Josh English 102, Travis Head 57, Prabat Jayasuriya 193/3,Geoffrey Vandersay 182/3, Asita Fernando 77/0, Nishan Peiris 189/0)

Sri Lanka First Innings - 44/3 (15) (Oshadha Fernando 7, Dimuth Karunaratne 7, Angelo Mathews 7, Mitchell Starc 10/1, Matthew Quenman 26/1, Nathan Lyon 7/1)