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Sri Lanka 117 and 6 for 1 (Silva 2*) trail Australia 203 (Voges 47, Herath 4-49, Sandakan 4-58) by 80 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball detailsYou wouldnt know it to look at the wicket tally, but two full sessions have so far been lost in this Test. Two days, four sessions of play, 21 wickets taken. And enough afternoon rain to fill a dam. It was as if the weather gods were conspiring to stretch this Test to a fourth day. Or, come to that, a third. And despite Sri Lankas fightback on day two, Australia still had the upper hand at stumps.It was a day on which Sri Lankas spinners dragged their side back into the contest after their miserable first-innings 117. Rangana Herath was always going to be a threat to Australia in this series and he ran through the top order before lunch. After lunch Lakshan Sandakan spun a web around the tail and prevented Australia extending their lead into triple figures.Sandakans 4 for 58 were the best figures ever by a left-arm wrist-spinner on Test debut, beating Chuck Fleetwood-Smiths 80-year-old record by six runs. Heraths 4 for 49 was no surprise to anyone, his mastery of drift and natural variation causing confusion for Australia. Australia were bowled out shortly before tea for 203, with a lead of 86.The afternoon rain set in at the tea break, but not before Sri Lanka lost a wicket of their own. Kusal Perera, sent out to open instead of Dimuth Karunaratne, lasted only five balls before he was beaten for pace by Mitchell Starc, who trapped him lbw with a fullish delivery for 4. Karunaratne walked to the crease at first drop to join Kaushal Silva (2 not out) but before he could face a ball, the rain came.If cricket is about timing, then Pereras could hardly have been worse. He had spent much of the afternoon keeping wicket after Dinesh Chandimal failed to emerge following the lunch break, a stomach complaint keeping him off the field. It was otherwise a pretty decent day for Sri Lanka, whose main problem was their own poor batting in the first innings.The bowling of both sides, though, has been exemplary. Sri Lanka applied pressure right throughout the second day, Herath and Sandakan bewitching Australia with their variations and Nuwan Pradeep toiling admirably as the sole frontline fast man. Adam Voges was the only batsman from either side to last 100 balls on a pitch that was perfectly fine for batting.Two Australians lost their cool, inexplicably trying to attack Herath before they were settled: Steven Smith in the second over of the day when he danced down the pitch, was beaten in flight while trying to smash one down the ground, and was stumped for 30; and Peter Nevill, who on 2 uncharacteristically tried to go over the infield and lofted a straightforward chance to mid-on.Smiths departure meant Australia were under early pressure and Herath doubled it by trapping Usman Khawaja, the other not-out batsman overnight, in his next over. Coming around the wicket, Herath fired one in quicker and straighter. Khawaja failed to get his bat in the way, and was lbw for 26, having added only one to his score.Voges, who had narrowly survived a big lbw shout first ball - Sri Lankas review showed Heraths delivery was sliding just far enough down leg to remain with the umpires not-out call - led Australias steadying effort and had support initially from Mitchell Marsh. However, on 31 Marsh failed to pick Sandakans wrongun and was bowled to leave Australia at 130 for 5.While Voges remained, Australia could dream of a healthy 100-plus first-innings lead, but he was the only Australian to fall to pace on day two, edging to gully when Pradeep found a little extra bounce. Voges had made 47 from 115 balls and would be one of seven Australians to reach double figures without any going on to post a half-century. Failure to convert starts is a pet peeve for coach Darren Lehmann.The tail wagged a bit, Steve OKeefe occupying the crease for 80 balls for his 23, Starc launching a six in his 11, and Nathan Lyon adding 17 useful runs. But they all found Sandakan hard to pick, and in the end he picked up all of their wickets. Starc edged a conventional wrist-spinner behind, OKeefe was caught at bat-pad off a wrongun, and Lyon was trapped lbw playing his favourite sweep shot.Still, in a low-scoring Test a lead of 86 was not insignificant. And as Perera found out a few minutes later, Sri Lanka still had a mountain of work ahead of them to achieve parity. Zach Collins Jersey . LUCIE, Fla. Jusuf Nurkic Jersey .com) - Manchester City midfielder David Silva is expected to miss the next four weeks because of a calf problem. https://www.cheapblazersonline.com/ . 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A wet floor at Wells Fargo Center has caused Wednesdays game between the Sacramento Kings and Philadelphia 76ers to be postponed.The game, which was scheduled to tip off at 7 p.m. ET, was called off at 8:03 p.m., according to John Page, the president of the Wells Fargo Center complex in Philadelphia.A makeup date was not immediately announced.?The Philadelphia Flyers hosted an NHL game at the arena Tuesday night, and the ice surface remained under the basketball court -- standard procedure at the Wells Fargo Center. However, Wednesday was an unseasonably warm, humid day for late November, and that could have affected the surface.A source told the The?Philadelphia Inquirer that someone in operations dropped the ball and did not turn down the temperature in the arena.?With our ice surface, sometimes humidity is our biggest opponent when we prepare for a game, Page said. Weve never had an issue before, but we need to make sure we dont have this issue again.The Kings, not to mention Sixers center Joel Embiid, took to Twitter to poke fun at the wet floor and the games postponement.Sacramento center DeMarcus Cousins said players noticed the court was slippery at Wednesday mornings shootaround. By pregame warmups, the problem had worsened.It was pretty bad, Cousins said. Ive never seen anything like that before.Cousins joined the fruitless effort to prepare the court by pushing around a pair of mops during the delay.dddddddddddd He entered the night averaging 35.3 points in his past four games and said he was disappointed the contest was postponed.Guys go through their ritual, guys prepare for their games and, like that, theyre telling us were not playing; its kind of disappointing, he said.Im kind of glad it did go this way. Player safety should be considered first. I think they made the right decision.Fans booed when the postponement was announced.Sixers CEO Scott ONeil said tickets to Wednesdays game would be valid for the makeup game, and fans in attendance also would get an additional ticket to another game plus a rebate on parking.I know this is a tremendous inconvenience to the fans, so I certainly apologize on behalf of the organization, he said.Its the first postponement in the NBA since the league called off two games on Jan. 23 ?-- Boston at Philadelphia and Utah at Washington -- because of a winter storm.Wednesdays game was supposed to mark the first in which the Sixers increased Embiids minutes restriction to 28. Embiid previously had been restricted to playing 24 minutes per game this season.The Associated Press contributed to this report. ' ' '