When the first day of the first test of the Vaughan-Murali Cup test series, which is being held in relation to the Australian team's tour of Sri Lanka, ended today (29th), Australia scored 330 runs for 2 wickets and passed in a strong position.

The acting captain of the Australian team, Stephen Smith, who won the toss in this match held at the Galle International Cricket Stadium, decided to score first without thinking twice.However, in this match, left-handed batsman Travis Head opened the Australian innings with Usman Khawaja and the duo were able to get off to a successful start, doing more justice to the decision.

It was notable that Head, who subjected the Sri Lankan bowlers to a merciless attack, scored his half century by spending only 35 balls.Accordingly, Head and Khawaja added 92 runs for the Australian first wicket and Travis Head was dismissed for 57 after scoring his 18th Test half-century. 

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. 

After that dismissal, Steven Smith, who entered the field, built a huge unbroken 195-run partnership for the third wicket of the Australian innings with Khawaja.Meanwhile, Stephen Smith managed to cross the 10000 run mark in his Test career. Smith became the 15th player in the world to do so and the fourth player to do so for Australia. 

Also, Usman Khawaja was able to record the 16th century of his Test career.He joined the records as the oldest batsman to score a century against Sri Lanka in a Test match. Also, Stephen Smith, who fulfilled the responsibility of the captain properly, recorded the 35th century of his Test career today.

However, due to rain in the 81st over of the Australian first innings, the umpires decided to stop the match for the first day. At that time, Usman Khawaja was 147 not out and Steven Smith was 104 not out.

However, on several occasions in this match, the catches given by the Australian batsmen were lost in the hands of the Sri Lankan bowlers. In this match, it is also special that Josh English won the international test mandate for Australia.

Score summary 

Australia First Innings - 330/2 (81.1) (Usman Khawaja 147 not out, Steven Smith 104 not out, Travis Head 57, Prabat Jayasuriya 102/1, Geoffrey Vandersay 93/1, Asita Fernando 41/0, Nishan Peiris 93/0)