Sri Lanka elect to bat against Australia

Wade was caught behind for three while Khawaja was out for six as Australia were in early trouble at 25 for two in 5.5 overs.

Bailey was the highest run-getter in the ODI series with 270 runs at 67.50 while Mitchell Starc, John Hastings and Adam Zampa impressed with the ball in the five matches.

“The pitches that Australia got in that series were the pitches they were always going to get, and we’re always going to get there (on the subcontinent). (Bailey) has been a rock in the middle allowing us to bat around him”.

He was eventually out caught and bowled by Dhananjaya de Silva with just seven runs required to win.

Bailey’s unbeaten 90 in the fourth match fired Australia to an unassailable 3-1 lead in the series and showed the hallmark composure that made the Tasmanian first understudy to Michael Clarke before the captain’s retirement a year ago.

Sep.2: Sri Lanka skipper Angelo Mathews has been ruled out of the remaining fixtures in the ongoing series against Australia due to a calf injury.

Harris, who took 113 wickets in 27 Tests as a swing bowler, retired previous year with persistent knee problems, and was Australia’s Under-19 coach last season.

Left-arm pacer Faulkner had de Silva trudging back to the pavilion for 34.

The most controversial of these wickets was that of Kusal Perera, who was trapped LBW by Travis Head.

The rest of the batting failed to put up any resistance as Starc, who topped the bowling chart with 12 wickets in five games, returned to help remove the tail.

Meanwhile, Sri Lanka’s bowlers bowled really well but Australia batsman has read them really well and they somehow find the way to dismantle the spin of Avishka Fernando, Amila Aponso and Dilruwan Perera.

Australia’s successful stand-in ODI captain David Warner has aired his thoughts on how the toppled number one-ranked Test team might amend their appalling recent form in the red-ball format in Asia.

Central to Australia’s problems in the Test series have been their performances with the bat.

The win also placed the Test series in sharper focus, with the ODI outfit – like their red-ball brethren before them – arriving on the island as the world’s top-ranked team only to meet markedly different fates.

The hosts had squandered their best start of the tour in their own innings, losing batsmen in clusters, then failing to produce significant partnerships before the next cascade of wickets came around.

The two sides will now play the two-match T20 series, starting from Tuesday at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium.