Sri Lanka v Australia: second men’s one-day international – live

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6th over: Sri Lanka 19-1 (Madushka 9, Kusal 4) Hardie loses his line for the first time and is turned wristily round the corner for four by Kusal Mendis.

WICKET! Sri Lanka 15-1 (Nissanka b Hardie 6)

Dot balls = pressure = wickets. Nissanka charges Hardie, misses a wild mow across the line and is bowled to end a difficult innings of 6 from 20 balls. Excellent bowling from Hardie, who has been nagging away just full of a good length.

Nissanka looks suspiciously at the bottom of his bat as he walks off, which suggests he wouldn’t be great at Cluedo.

Pathum Nissanka is bowled by Aaron Hardie. Photograph: Eranga Jayawardena/AP

5th over: Sri Lanka 15-0 (Nissanka 6, Madushka 9) Dwarshuis’s first really bad delivery is turned off the hip for four by Madushka, whose name is hard to type without the brain veering off towards Kate Bush’s back catalogue.

An otherwise good over ends with a dangerous inswinger that beats Madushka on the inside. Sri Lanka are struggling to rotate strike; I think 25 of the 30 deliveries so far have been dot balls.

4th over: Sri Lanka 11-0 (Nissanka 6, Madushka 5) After eating up a few more dot balls – he scored from only one of his first 16 balls – Nissanka releases a bit of pressure by pushing Hardie’s final ball through midwicket for two. Australia have started pretty well with the ball.

3rd over: Sri Lanka 8-0 (Nissanka 4, Madushka 4) Dwarshuis lopes in to Nissanka, with two slips waiting for any edge. There is a bit of swing but nothing too extravagant, and Nissanka feels secure to punch a drive that is well stopped by the sprawling Maxwell at mid-off. A maiden.

2nd over: Sri Lanka 8-0 (Nissanka 4, Madushka 4) Aaron Hardie, who bowled very well in the first ODI, shares the new ball. Madushka slams a cut into the ground and past backward point for four to get off the mark. Sri Lanka are dealing exclusively in boundaries for now.

The commentators, Russel Arnold and Simon Katich, think the pitch looks similar to the one for the ODI, maybe slightly more cracked. Australia won’t want to chase much more than 220.

1st over: Sri Lanka 4-0 (Nissanka 4, Madushka 0) Dwarshuis, playing his second ODI, gets some encouraging early inswing. Nissanka times the fourth ball sweetly through extra cover for the first boundary. That’s the lot.

Time for the action. Ben Dwarshuis, LFM, will open the bowling to Pathum Nissanka.

Team news: Dwarshuis and Sangha among five changes

I thought Australia would pick their provisional XI for the Champions Trophy but Andrew McDonald has decided to rest some likely starters. In all there are five changes from the first ODI: Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Glenn Maxwell, Ben Dwarshuis and Tanveer Sangha replace Cooper Connolly, Alex Carey, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Ellis and Spencer Johnson.

Sri Lanka bring in Nishan Madushka for Avishka Fernando.

Sri Lanka Nissanka, Madushka, Kusal Mendis (wk), Kamindu Mendis, Asalanka (c), Liyanage, Wellalage, Hasaranga, Theekshana, Malinga, Asitha Fernando.

Australia Short, Head, Fraser-McGurk, Smith (c), Inglis (wk), Maxwell, Hardie, Abbott, Dwarshuis, Zampa, Sangha.

Sri Lanka win the toss and bat

Australia will be chasing, as in the first ODI, possibly on a similarly awkward pitch

Preamble

Hello and welcome to live, over-by-over coverage of the second and final ODI between Sri Lanka and Australia in Colombo.

Less than three weeks ago it looked like 10 of Australia’s World Cup-winning XI would be off to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy, with David Warner the only man missing. Now there are six men standing: Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and the Mitches, Starc and Marsh, have all been ruled out, and Australia find themselves having to rebuild a great team on the hoof.

This is their last official ODI before the Champions Trophy opener against England a week tomorrow. At the moment no warm-ups are scheduled, so Australia are likely to pick what Andrew McDonald thinks is their provisional XI going into the tournament.

That should mean a return for Travis Head, Glenn Maxwell and Josh Inglis, though it’s the composition of the bowling attack that is more intriguing. Adam Zampa is a sure thing; the other three or four places are up for grabs.

The bowling ability of Maxwell and Head, as well as Marnus Labuschagne and Matthew Short, plus the stellar batting form of Alex Carey, gives them plenty of options both in terms of personnel and the balance of the side.

Today’s match should give us a pretty good idea of their thinking, and whether this rejigged team has the potential to add the Champions Trophy to Australia’s bulging cabinet.