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Nathan Mcsweeney would be reflecting on the ironies of cricket. He made his debut as an opener on a spicy pitch against a rampant Bumrah. Inglis walked in at 3 for 400 against a group of tired and ineffective trundlers. Luck of the draw I guess. But take nothing away from Josh, he deserved his opportunity and he made the most of it. You can only play what is put out in front of you
As for the state of the game, only a significant weather interruption will prevent this being an innings win for Australia. All the bowlers were getting quite a lot of assistance from the pitch in the period before stumps and that will become more pronounced as the game goes on

a crushing landslide 
that would have to rank as one of the more dominant sub-continent performances ever seen from an Australian team that always struggles in the region 
Sri Lanka went for the ultra aggressive method in the 2nd innings but picked out fielders or misread the ball 
did not see this sort of demolition not by us anyway

It's quite remarkable that the Australian men's Test team, women's Test team and men's "A" team all won by an innings on the same day.
The two Test teams were going wicket-for-wicket all afternoon and must have chalked up victory within five minutes of each other.
It was also the fourth-biggest margin by the men's team in Tests that they've won by an innings.

Sheesh what a hiding.
I cant remember a poorer performance from a Sri Lankan side even going back to their days as a minnow cricket nation in the late 70s/early 80s.
On paper they are a lot better side than they performed especially with the bat.

As for Australia we hardly put a foot wrong.
I know the selectors wont make any changes after this Test but I would bring Connolly in for Murphy for the 2nd Test.

Seems like Aust have their version of Santner BH.....Kuhnemann taking a 9 for......if only Aust pitches were sub continent ones....he may get more of a look in.

Be interesting to see if Aust have learnt anything from their previous tour of SL.....1-0 up last time from memory,, after a similar convincing victory.....Can't see any changes either.....Murphy struggled compared to Lyon and Kuhnemann.....but did bowl far less overs and deserves another crack......though Smith does seem to prefer's Gary's offspin compared to Harry Potter's.. 

More spin in this pitch apparently so Australia may go in with another spin option ( Connelly) at the expense maybe of Labuschagne who trained away from the main group yesterday. The toss is going to be crucial again.

Has just been announced that Cooper Connelly will make his test debut today. Very exciting news for the young man. Will be either Webster or Murphy to drop out. Tune in for the toss at around midday as this may well be when the match is decided. Ridiculous I know but unfortunately the pitch looks like its going to turn square so the sooner you get runs on the board the better.

Murphy

Solid start by SL, now going a bit pear shaped post lunch, with Gary leading the way. Looks like it's Lyon's turn to take some wickets......with Kuhnemann/ Santner missing out.....must not be a sub continent dust bowl if he is missing out.

Good luck to the WA youngster.....hopefully his first FC wicket is a test wicket.

Hard to know whos on top after day 1. I suspect 229 is a lot better a score than it looks on that wicket. Lets see what Australia can do tomorrow. First things first though, they've got to get the last Sri Lankan wicket, another 15 or 20 runs even would be priceless for the home team. 

Then when Australia bat they need to be thinking of partnerships. Ideally one batsman to try and bat all day and anchor the innings (Uzzie?) and the others to push the score along. It will be difficult but batting will be a lot easier now than on Day 4. If they can somehow scrape up to 350 this will enable the bowlers to exert pressure when Sri Lanka bat in the 3rd innings

Must admit I was confused with the lack of use of Cooper Connelly on day 1, only 3 overs when Part timer Head got through 8. Might as well have kept Murphy who would have been able to get through 10-15 overs