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Timeline of Sri Lanka's collapse in Galle

How Sri Lanka's innings collapsed in Galle and where a 10-wicket victory in less than three days ranks for all-time fastest Australian Test wins.

KUSAL MENDIS.
 KUSAL MENDIS. Picture: Stu Forster/Getty Images

SRI LANKA'S GALLE COLLAPSE BY THE CLOCK IN TEST DEFEAT VS AUSTRALIA

* 10:29am - Dimuth Karunaratne (23) gets a faint edge trying to sweep Nathan Lyon and is caught behind by Alex Carey. 1-37 (5.3 overs)

* 10:36 - Pathum Nissanka (14) tries to sweep Mitchell Swepson but is trapped lbw when the ball skids on. 2-39 (6.5 overs)

* 10:55 - Kusal Mendis (8) is beaten by Lyon's bounce and turn, miscuing a sweep to Swepson at backward square leg. 3-59 (11.1 overs)

* 11:03 - Oshada Fernando (12) edges Swepson to Steve Smith at first slip. 4-63 (12.2 overs)

* 11:28 - Dinesh Chandimal (13) becomes Travis Head's first Test victim, bowled when the ball spins back sharply between bat and pad. 5-95 (18.2 overs)

* 11:33 - Dhananjaya de Silva (11) pads up to a ball that skids on from Head and is trapped lbw. 6-96 (18.5 overs)

* 11:38 - Ramesh Mendis (0) tries to sweep Lyon but falls in a similar fashion to Mendes when he is caught by Usman Khawaja. 7-97 (19.4 overs)

* 11:46 - Niroshan Dickwella (3) reverse-sweeps Lyon but is caught by a diving effort from Marnus Labuschagne at cover. 8-108 (21.2 overs)

* 11:51 - Jeffrey Vandersay (8) receives a ball from Head that spins back and takes his leg stump. 9-108 (22.1 overs)

* 11:54 - Lasith Embuldeniya is hit on the pads by Head. He is given not out but the decision is overturned on review. 10-113 (22.5 overs)

AUSTRALIA'S FASTEST TEST VICTORIES:

v South Africa, 1932 (656 balls)

v England, 1888 (792 balls)

v New Zealand, 1946 (872 balls)

v Pakistan, 2002 (893 balls)

v England, 1911 (911 balls)

v Sri Lanka, 2022 (918 balls)

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