Sri Lanka vs Australia live: All eyes on follow-on target with more rain forecast on day four in Galle

And there’s a shout for caught at short leg! It’s given not out, but Australia reviews.

Four. A little edgy as Murphy’s finding some spin outside off.

Four more! Mathews with more authority this time, sweeping hard and too square for Beau Webster behind square leg.

12 in three balls!! The sweep shot again yields dividends for Angelo, in identical fashion to the last one.

Mathews pads up, Labuschagne gathers and backhands at the stumps. Chandimal calls Mathews through for an overthrow, but no shot was offered, so it’s a dead ball. Another one of those weird quirks of cricket.

Just a short leg in close. The field is spread. Not even a slip.

Maybe trying to choke off the run-scoring to build some pressure.

Lyon gets one to skid on straight with the arm and Mathews plays an awkward, wristy push. Lucky not to nick off. There is a slip in place for him.

An ugly reverse sweep from Mathews as he tries to respond to the near miss, but the ball was too short.

His first four overs yielded 1-17. What can he do here?

He’s getting some spin outside off, but Chandimal is able to work him for a single.

Mathews looking solid in defence to the spinner. Lunch is 10 minutes away, but they an’t afford to think about it.

Angelo Mathews finally sees a ball going across him and pushes a single to point.

A lot of bounce and some turn into Mathews, who does well to keep it down, off the stickers, into his knee, onto his glove and then onto the ground.

Mathews bunts one down the ground, and that’s two runs from the over.

He’s very straight to the right-handers. Perhaps waiting for this ball to age before working wider and trying to rip the big turners away from the outside edge.

Nothing much to write home about in that one, despite some interest for a leg-side catch from Alex Carey. But he’s the only one interested.

His first over wasn’t the best. He’s starting around the wicket to Dinesh Chandimal.

Both batters are working well off their pads. No bowler offering anything outside off.

I wonder if Smith has spied something in Mathews’s technique.

Hold on, We might have a stunning team catch here!

Angelo Mathews cut from close to his body and down, but Alex Carey may have flicked it up off his right shoe to a diving Beau Webster.

NOT OUT! The ball bounced a centimetre in front of Carey’s toe.

Four! Angelo Mathews tries a reverse sweep, Steve Smith sees him coming and tries to skip across to cover it, but the bottom edge goes fine and beats him.

Mathews goes again, and Smith stands his ground this time, making a brilliant stop to his left at first slip.

A regulation sweep to end the over from Mathews, even though the ball wasn’t full enough to really sweep. But he makes it work.

One boundary and four singles in the over.

Dinesh Chandimal is on strike.

Four! Kuhnemann’s first ball is a shocker, floating down leg and Chandimal’s sweep just pats the ball on the bum to send it racing fine to the boundary.

A couple of singles later, Kuhnemann spears another one down leg and it races away to the boundary off Chandimal’s front pad.

Chandimal is getting everything on his pads. He helps himself to a single to end the over.

His first ball zips on straight and almost catches the outside edge on the way through to Alex Carey. The appeal is stifled, but the umpires have a look at the stumping.

Credit to Chandimal though, stopping his toe sliding out of the crease.

I have to be honest, Watcher,

Chris is having a bit of a time of it. I’ve told him to go brew a nice cuppa and go touch some grass.

Hopefully things improve for Sri Lanka in the second Test in the friendlier climes of … oh no.

Four! Lovely timing from Chandimal, just dropping the bat onto a half-volley outside off and swinging back into him to send it racing away through mid-off.

Bang! Smith plugs the gab with a catching mid-off just off the pitch, Starc dishes up some width and Chandimal clatters it through point. Lovely, fearless stroke. And perhaps a suggestion the swing is starting to disappear.

Huge movement back into Chandimal off the pitch. It was shorter and jagged back into his thigh pad.

Chandimal gets off strike, working off his thigh for a single.

Mathews does the same, but goes well in front of square leg for a couple. Sri Lanka needs big innings from Mathews, Chandimal, Kamindu Mendis and Dhananjaya de Silva. They have to believe they can at least make it into the long rain delay, then reload from there.

Mitchell Starc has two slips, a gully, another slightly deeper gully, a leg slip and a leg gully.

There’s still a leg gully, but just one, and a short leg in for Angelo Mathews.

Mathews’s defence outside off looks really shaky — ready to gift a catch to gully. But he makes it through for now.

There’s plenty of experience in this Sri Lankan batting line-up, but it really feels like all hopes rest with Kamindu Mendis pulling off a miracle at number five.

Although Dinesh Chandimal’s resistance in the first innings offers hope too.

Four. Angelo Mathews ends the over with a tidy reverse sweep to the third man boundary,.

Absolute brain fade from the experienced Sri Lankan, and both openers are gone.

Murphy angles in from around the wicket and Karunaratne just watches it cannon into his off stump. He was obviously expecting it to turn sharply away, and it just carried on straight.

Always a risk with a brand new ball. Karunaratne has to be better than that.

Dimuth Karunaratne is on strike in his 99th Test match.