Sri Lanka suffer in Hobart Test

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HOBART, Nov 17 (BBC): Australia piled on the runs to reach 542-5 before declaring on day two of the second Test against Sri Lanka.
Michael Hussey added 31 to his overnight 101, but Michael Clarke, Andrew Symonds and Adam Gilchrist all hit half-centuries in Hobart.
A massive Gilchrist sweep off Muttiah Muralitharan which disappeared out of Bellerive stadium made him the first man to hit 100 sixes in Tests.
Sri Lanka reached 30-0 in reply before bad light ended play early.
Australia resumed at 329-3 Saturday, adding a further 213 for the loss of two wickets in two and a bit rain-interrupted session.
With Sri Lanka's task already difficult enough they were dealt a further blow at the start of the second day with the absence of Farveez Maharoof, who has a suspected stress fracture of his back.
The Australian batsmen were unforgiving as Clarke drove Dilhara Fernando for consecutive boundaries while Hussey slog-swept Muralitharan for six in the last over before lunch.
Hussey had 18 boundaries and a six to his name before he was trapped lbw by a Fernando yorker.
Clarke, eight not out overnight, went on to hit 71 from 123 balls.
He finally departed when edging the second ball of a new spell from Lasith Malinga down the leg-side, wicket-keeper Prasanna Jayawardene holding a brilliant diving catch.
Five balls earlier, Clarke had been dropped by Chamara Silva when he stepped down the wicket at Muralitharan and got an inside edge to short-leg.
That deprived Murali-tharan of a 703rd Test wicket, and he ended with figures of 1-140 from 46 overs.
Gilchrist came to the crease with Symonds on 24 and the total on 447-5.
Symonds' first three scoring strokes were four, four and a hoisted six down the ground off Muralitharan, but even he looked subdued compared with Gilchrist.
The left-hander began with a pair of slashing boundaries off Lasith Malinga (1-156) and never looked back, hitting 67 not out from 77 balls.
Ricky Ponting declared the Australian innings as soon as Symonds reached his half-century from 71 balls, and with the partnership on 95.
Brett Lee and Mitchell Johnson each had six overs at Marvan Atapattu and Michael Vandort, but the Sri Lanka openers held firm.
In all, 27 overs were lost in the day, but Sunday's forecast is good.
Afterwards, Gilchrist confessed he had not been able to recover the ball he had hit for his historic six after it bounced down a street outside the ground.
"I'm not a massive collector of memorabilia but I think there's probably a few little bits and pieces every cricketer has stashed away that means something to them and that's a unique little item and I'd love to get it back," he said.
"There aren't many things that you do in life that you're the only person ever to have done it, so with that in mind it would be nice to have the ball that notched that hundred.
"It's not a milestone you ever set out to achieve but it's definitely unique."
Gilchrist had known he was beginning his innings on 97 sixes, nine better than Brian Lara in second place.
His first maximum of the day was over midwicket off Malinga, with the second coming off Muralitharan.
And the very next ball served up by the Sri Lankan off-spinner brought up Gilchrist's unique century.