Australia defeated Team India 3-1 in the 5-match Test series at home and made it to the final of the World Test Championship (WTC) for the second consecutive time. Australia has maintained the winning streak and started the Sri Lanka tour in a great way. Australia has badly defeated host Sri Lanka in the first Test played at Galle International Stadium. Australia defeated Sri Lanka by 242 runs and an innings on the basis of brilliant batting and then amazing bowling. In this way, Australia made a record of registering its third biggest win on foreign soil in Test cricket. This is also Australia's fourth biggest win in the history of Test cricket. The Australian team has won a Test match by more than 200 runs and an innings margin after 23 years. Earlier, Australia defeated South Africa in its own home in the year 2002 by 360 runs and an innings margin.

Australia's biggest innings win in Test cricket

An innings and 360 runs against South Africa, Johannesburg, 2002

An innings and 332 runs against South Africa, Brisbane, 1946

An innings and 259 runs against South Africa, Gqeberha, 1950

An innings and 242 runs against South Africa, Galle, 2025

An innings and 226 runs against South Africa, Brisbane, 1947

Australian batsmen took Sri Lankan bowlers to task from day one. Australia's opener Usman Khawaja hit a brilliant double century. Khawaja played a brilliant innings of 232 runs in which he hit 16 fours and 1 six. Apart from this, captain Steve Smith and Josh Inglis achieved the feat of scoring centuries in their debut Test match. Smith contributed 141 and Inglis 101 runs. In this way, Australia declared their first innings at a score of 654/6 runs. In response to this huge score, Sri Lanka's first innings collapsed at 165 runs, after which the host team was forced to play follow-on. In the second innings too, Sri Lanka could score only 247 runs and Australia won the first Test by an innings and 242 runs.