Australia vs Sri Lanka 2019: 2nd Test, Manuka Oval, Canberra - Day 3 Review
Usman Khawaja (Credits - Getty)

Australia vs Sri Lanka 2019: 2nd Test, Manuka Oval, Canberra – Day 3 Review; Yet another dominating day of cricket for Australia in the ongoing second Test against Sri Lanka at Manuka Oval. Usman Khawaja has been the latest entrant to knock century in the match, which gave the visitors a daunting total on the board to chase down. The good news for Australia is that Mitchell Starc is also back in the form.

Mitchell Starc collects five-wicket haul:

After a fine period of time, the classy Mitchell Starc has delivered the goods for the team. He dismantled Sri Lankan batting with his exceptional fast bowling display. Though Dananjaya de Silva and Niroshan Dickwella got the starts, they failed to convert them into a big one.

Australia vs Sri Lanka 2019: 2nd Test, Manuka Oval, Canberra - Day 3 Review
Mitchell Starc celebrates a wicket. (Credits – Twitter)

Kusal Perera was the second Sri Lankan batsman to retired hurt in the innings after Karunaratne. However, the later recovered well and scored a decent 59-run knock to his name. Later, he also walked back as the victim of Starc.

Starc finished with 5 wickets for 54 runs while Nathan Lyon bagged a couple of wickets. Pat Cummins and Marnus Labuschagne picked up one wicket each for the team.

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Usman Khawaja knocks century:

In total, Sri Lanka was able to garner 215 runs on the board to hand a massive lead for the host team. Australia once again chose to bat in the Test, where Usman Khawaja came to the party. He smashed an unbeaten 101 to end the drought of his poor scores in the recent past.

Australia vs Sri Lanka 2019: 2nd Test, Manuka Oval, Canberra - Day 3 Review
Usman Khawaja gets hundred. (Credits – Twitter)

The second innings tally of 196 helped Australia to put a massive 516-run target on the board. In reply to the chase, Sri Lankans were successful in evading the tricky six overs left in the game.

At the end of Day 3 stumps, Karunaratne and Lahiru Thirimanne are batting on the identical score of 8 runs to their name. They stitched 17 runs on the board with 499 runs left to win the game.

Brief Scores:

1st Innings:

Australia – 534/5, Sri Lanka 215-all-out

2nd Innings:

 Australia – 196/3 (Usman Khawaja 101*; Rajitha 2/64)

Sri Lanka – 17/0 (Karunaratne 8, Thirimanne 8)

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