BREAKING: Australia win 1st Test by an innings and 242 runs

Kuhnemann 9-149, Lyon 7-165, Starc 3-27

Slow bowling on a sunny Sri Lankan morning: could there be a better way to start the fourth instalment of a Test where the visitors were in control of everything but the storm clouds building somewhere out there in the Indian Ocean?

Galle is a dream destination for visitors who flock to the beaches and the dilapidated stadium stands, but rarely so for visiting cricketers.

The tables, however, had turned, the fort invaded and the local cricket team put to the sword by an Australian outfit confident in its plans and its cattle.

Before 45 minutes had passed Sri Lanka had lost 5-9 and the humiliation of the follow-on invoked.

Before the predicted storms arrived they were shipwrecked.

Dinesh Chandimal suffered the indignity of being dismissed twice in the same session. Twice in the same day is bad enough, but twice in the same session is double indignity.