Follow live: Australia look to take ascendancy on day two of Second Test against Sri Lanka

Smith comes down and works with the spin of Jayasuriya to get him through mid-wicket for four.

Close! Smith comes out to cover the spin but the ball turns big to go past the bat, luckily Smith gets his foot back behind the line to avoid a stumping.

Same ball with one that slides on but this one is hitting Smith in front of leg stump as opposed to middle.

Missing by a long way and Sri Lanka lose a review.

Terrible shot as Marnus jumps back to one that slides on and thunders into the pads.

Not given on the field with the only issue if it’s doing too much.

But it’s smashing into leg stump and Marnus has to after another failure.

Danger signs for Australia here with the ball doing plenty.

AUS 2/37

The Australian No.3 is in desperate need of some runs.

He’s off the mark straight away flay batting a drive through cover for four.

Travis Head falls trying to attack.

After taking 0/186 in the first Test Peiris gets one early here after Head danced down but the ball spins to take the outside edge and go to first slip.

Sharp catch by the captain and Sri Lanka have an early breakthrough.

Kumara just gets the two overs with Nishan Peiris coming on from the other end.

Head had cracked the paceman for back-to-back boundaries last over.

OOF. his first ball spins back viciously and it just misses the stumps and may have been a drop by the keeper off a thin edge though it looks like he just missed it.

Gets off strike with a single as does Head as they exchange singles to finish the over.

AUS 0/27

Interesting move after Dhananjaya De Silva didn’t bowl in the first Test instead letting is four bowlers bowl marathon spells.

Reports say he had a side strain.

He beats Khawaja’s outside edge with one that holds its line.

Khawaja whips a single off his pads for the only run of the over.

Lahiru Kumara with the ball with Head on strike.

He’s off the mark straight away chopping down a cut to point.

Khawaja is off the mark next ball with a drop and run single into the onside.

Head repeats the strike for another single. Both players playing off the back foot with some low bounce.

CLOSE. Head gets four but he’s lucky not to be out as a leading edge flies past gully to the boundary.

Very lucky to get away with that.

At 1/93 they may be disappointed with that but after falling to 6/150 they will be please they managed to graft out another 100-plus runs with the tail.

This pitch is still ok but is showing signs of sharp turn, Travis Head only bats in one mode in these conditions so expect fireworks one way or another.

Remember Australia will have to bat last on this deck and any chase above 150 could be very difficult.

Mendis has been trusting Kumara against the spin but Kuhnemann has been more dangerous this morning.

He fiddles at one that doesn’t spin back as far as he was anticipating and Webster takes an excellent catch low at second slip.

Mendis leaves unbeaten for an excellent 85 guiding Sri Lanka to 257 with the last pair putting on 33 runs.

Kuhnemann finishes with an excellent 3/63 off his 33 overs over to the batters to see how they fair on this deck.

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