Dinesh Chandimal has scored an unbeaten 63 as Sri Lanka struggled to 136-5 at lunch on Day 3 in reply to Australia's imposing first innings of 654 in the first cricket test.

Mitchell Starc completed an elite feat on Thursday, January 30. Starc overtook Dale Steyn and reached the 700-wicket club in international cricket.

Mitchell Starc became just the fourth Australian to take 700 wickets in international cricket on Thursday, joining Aussie legends Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Brett Lee. And it came amid a crazy stat around wife Alyssa Healy, who was captaining the women's Test team on the other side of the world.

He is Australias fourth-highest wicket-taker ever, next to pacers Brett Lee (718 wickets in 322 matches), Glenn McGrath (948 wickets in 375 matches) and late spin great Shane Warne (999 wickets and 338 matches).

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 all-time record of 15,921 Test runs, but statistics-based X account CricTracker has revealed that the two greats’ numbers are almost identical at this point of their careers.

Australian pacer Mitchell Starc became the fourth Aussie bowler to achieve 700 international wickets during the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle. This milestone cements his place among Australia's leading wicket-takers across all formats,

Sri Lanka's Dinesh Chandimal was waging a lone battle on 63 with Australia ahead by 518 runs and tightening their grip on the first Test before rain forced early lunch Friday. Chandimal, who was promoted to the crucial number three position last year and has averaged over 50 since,

Australia have piled up 654/6d in their first innings to which the hosts Sri Lanka are reeling at 44/3 at the end of day's play on day 2 of the 1st Test between both the teams. SL's Kamindu Mendis and Dinesh Chandimal were at the crease and will require to do the bulk of the work when day 3 action resumes in Galle on Friday.

Australia ace pacer Mitchell Starc created a major international record with the wicket of Dimuth Karunaratne on Day 2 of the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle. He clinched 700 international wickets and also became the fourth Australia cricketer to be part of the elite list.

Sri Lanka's Dinesh Chandimal was waging a lone battle on 63 with Australia ahead by 518 runs and tightening their grip on the first test before rain forced early lunch Friday.

Australia were already on tenterhooks with uncertainty over skipper Pat Cummins, who played the Border-Gavaskar Trophy with an ankle issue and Mitchell Marsh's injury has further thrown the spanner in the works for the two-time champions as far as the Champions Trophy is concerned.

Inglis' time on the crease was cut short by Sri Lankan spinner Prabath Jayasuriya, who forced him to drop a sitter to Kamindu Mendis. Jayasuriya drifted the ball into Inglis, who tried to whip it through the on-side. While executing his shot, he caught the leading edge and lobbed it into the hands of Kamindu.