WATCH: Amid LBW appeal, David Warner takes one-handed diving stunner to dismiss Karunaratne

Australia is locking-horns with Sri Lanka where the visitors’ spinners bundled out the host for 212 on Day1 off the first day in Galle. Veteran off-spinner Nathan Lyon scalped his 20th five-wicket haul in Tests while Mitchell Swepson picked three wickets.

Aussie fielders’ sharp catches aided the spinners well. One of those catches was when David Warner dismissed Lankan captain Dimuth Karunaratne.

This happened in the over of off-spinner Nathan Lyon. He bowled one in the leg-stump like and three close-in fielders around the batter thought about the ball hitting Karunaratne’s pad and made an LBW appeal. But David Warner’s presence of mind made him dive forward and catch it with one hand. The dismissal was confirmed after it was taken upstairs to the third umpire to check if it was taken cleanly. He walked back after scoring 28 runs off 84 balls. You can watch the video below:

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SL vs AUS 1st Test

Meanwhile, in the match, Sri Lankan captain Karunaratne won the toss and opted to bat first. Wicket-keeper batter Niroshan Dickwella’s quick-fire and Angelo Mathews‘ 39 ensured Sri Lanka cross 200-run mark. In the ODIs and T20Is, Sri Lankan spinners became a huge problem for the Kangaroos. It will be interesting to watch how the Australian batters can go past the Sri Lankan bowlers in the Tests.

This series is being played for the Warne-Muralitharan trophy named after Test history’s two legendary bowlers, Shane Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan with 1,508 combined wickets in the format. This is the first series after for the trophy after the demise of Shane Warne from a heart attack while vacationing in Thailand.

Shane Warne scalped 708 Test wickets; is the second highest-wicket-taker after Muralitharan’s 800 wickets. Shane Warne took 500 wickets in Galle in 2004. He also helped rebuild the ground after it was destroyed by the Asian tsunami later that year.

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