betvisa888Twitter reactions: Spinners dominate as Australia thrash Sri Lanka in the Galle Test

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Here is how Twitter reacted

Australia’s spinners dominated the proceedings on Day 3 of the Galle Test as the visitors defeated Sri Lanka by 10 wickets to go 1-0 up in the two-match series.

The hosts’ batting collapsed as they lost 10 wickets inside 23 overs to get bundled out for 113, giving the Aussies only five runs to win the contest, which the tourists did off just four balls. Notably, it was Australia’s first Test win in Sri Lanka since 2011. Further, it was also the first occasion when Australia won in Sri Lanka batting second, as their seven previous wins came batting first.

Nathan Lyon was the star with the ball, finishing with nine wickets in the match and marched into the all-time top 10 Test wickets-takers. He got surprising support from Travis Head in the second innings, ღwho went on to take career-best Test f💖igures of 4/10.

Despite Lyon’s spectacular performance, all-rounder Cameron Green was named ‘Player of the Match’ for his crucial 77 on a difficult batting surface on Day 2 of the game.

Brief Scores:

Sri Lanka 212 (Niroshan Dickwella 58, Angelo Mathews 39; Nathan Lyon 5/90, Mitchell Swepson 3/55) and 113 (Travis Head 4/10, Nathan Lyon 4/31) lost to Australia 321 (Cameron Green 77; Ramesh Mendis 4/112) and 10/0 by 10 wickets.

Here is how Twitter reacted:

Australia won the first Test by 10 wickets and take 1-0 lead in the 2-match serieꦬs.
— Sri Lanka Cricket 🇱🇰 (@OfficialSLC)

First back-to-back Test wins for Australia in Asia si꧑nce Bangladesh 2006. They played 28 in between, for thr𓆉ee wins
— Adam Burnett (@AdamBurnett09)

Great win by the Aussie boys by 10 wickets ✅
Usman providing great support for D.Warner in the run chase 🎯
Travis Head finally had a bowling average firstly 124 now 33.5 👍
Hope SL batsman play some shots in 2nd Test 😮
— Damien Fleming (@bowlologist)

The 1st Galle Test just lasted 920 balls – the shortest Test match that ended in home side's defeat since Australia beat New Zealand in the Wellington Test in 1946/46 which lasted 872 balls.
— Deepu Narayanan (@deeputalks)

That it is Australia’s youngest batter who provided the perfectܫ blueprint to succeed against spin in these extremely challenging conditions says both a lot about Cam Green the talent & also how much more confid🌃ent Australia’s batting group is against the turning ball now
— Bharat Sundaresan (@beastieboy07)

10-wicket win in under two and a half days!
A stunning victory from our boys, four wickets for both Nath Lyo🔥n and Trav Head!
The second Test starts next Friday and will also be play🎃ed in Gall👍e
— Cricket Australia (@CricketAus)

Nathan Lyon joins the elusive top-10 club 🙌 |
— ICC (@ICC)

Australia won the Test series in Pakistan and won the first Test in S🌞ri Lanka by 10💝 wickets.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns)

Australia win the first Test by 10 wickets.
An incredi🌳ble morning of Test🃏 cricket, the Aussies had Sri Lanka in a complete spin.
But all the 𒊎credit 𝔍has to go to Khawaja, Green and Carey yesterday. Made tough conditions look easy.
First win in SL for Aus since 2011.
— Lachlan McKirdy (@LMcKirdy7)