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Is the search for a new successor to Shane Warne over? The answer lies with time but the moment belongs to Nathan Lyon. A five wicket haul for the debutante Lyon has again shifted the advantage towards Australia after they were bowled out for what seemed to be an under-par score of 273.
Galle witnessed a collapse of 16 wickets on day two but clearly the day belonged to the Aussies.
Nathan Lyon, relished his first wicket off his first delivery at the Test level, dismissing Kumar Sangakkara for 10.
Another debutante Trent Copeland joined the elite club of the bowlers who got a wicket in the first over on debut. He accounted for the captain T.M.Dilshan’s wicket on his second ball.
Copeland, with his medium pace, may not appear intimidating but while bowling slow, he has a menacing line and length, with the ability to wait as long as it takes for the batsman to make a mistake.
Lyon, who was introduced in the 16th over, became the 14th bowler in test history to take a wicket off his first ball in a test.
Copeland, along with Lyon, conspired again for another big wicket when Mahela failed to get to the batting end before Haddin broke the stumps.
Lyon came back and snared the lower order, beginning with Angelo Mathews and Ranganna Herath followed after picking out deep mid-wicket on the slog sweep.
Randiv’s full-blooded drive off Lyon was then caught at short mid-on by Ponting.
Welegedara, after being invited to drive uppishly, was caught by Lyon to his left after he made a drive to hold on to a catch high above his head.
Lyon’s magic had left the Sri Lankans tottering.
To add to the damage, Watson contributed his part by sending back both Samaraweera and P. Jayawardene with identical deliveries in his second over with prodigious reverse swing.
The resistance ended when he managed to trap Paranavitana, who was steady and solid in defence, and had scored just 29 off 115 balls.
It was a magical spell of bowling by the Australian bowlers with Nathan Lyon stealing the lime-light. He exposed the weakness of Sri-Lankan batsmen to spin bowling to have Australia gaining the upper hand with a 168-run first-innings lead.
The Aussies are 283 runs ahead with three days left in the first test of Warne-Muralidaran trophy series.
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